detailed history of one of the bloodiest and most tragic attempts at social engineering in the twentieth century
Boonlua’s passage from precocious child of an aristocratic lineage under the absolute monarchy to fiery debater in the liberal explosion after 1973 cuts across the social upheavals of twentieth-century Thailand
covered her tracks brilliantly
and Southeast Asian Images: Towards Civil Society
Woven into this history is an outline of how Aung San Suu Kyi herself has become a highly respected pro-democracy icon internationally
Pol Pot Regime, The: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 Women Study detailed history of one ofWhat was the nature of the regime that turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields and murdered or starved to death 1. 7 million of the country's 8 million inhabitants? In this riveting book, the first definitive account of the Khmer Rouge revolution, a world renowned authority on Cambodia shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide on their own country. This edition