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Genocide: Armenian, Rwandan, Cambodian, and the Holocaust


Between 1975 and 1979, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an agrarian utopia. The notorious detention center, code-named 'S21', was the schoolhouse-turned prison where 17,000 men, women, and children were tortured and killed, their "crimes" meticulously documented to justify their execution. 

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Cambodia's Lament by George chigas, ed.
Voices from S-21 by david chandler
Brother Number One by david chandler
Sideshow by william shawcross
Cambodia, 1975-1982 by michael vickery
Cambodia, 1975-1978 Karl D. jackson, ed.
Genocide in Cambodia : Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary Howard J. De Nike, John Quigley, and Kenneth J. Robinson
Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Ben Kiernan
Behind the Killing Fields : A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims Gina Chon and Sambath Thet
Why Did They Kill? : Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide Alexander Laban Hinton and Author Robert Jay Lifton
Facing Death in Cambodia Peter Maguire
Brothers in Arms : Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 Andrew C. Mertha
War, Genocide, and Justice : Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
First They Killed My Father by luong ung
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields

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