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Bibliography of the Cambodian genocide

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This is a bibliography of the Cambodian genocide. Bibliography contains academic level English language books (including translations) and journal articles.

LocationDemocratic Kampuchea (present-day Cambodia)
Date17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days)
TargetCambodia's previous military and political leadership, middle-class professionals, businesspeople, intellectuals along with ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities
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Cambodian genocide
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LocationDemocratic Kampuchea (present-day Cambodia)
Date17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days)
TargetCambodia's previous military and political leadership, middle-class professionals, businesspeople, intellectuals along with ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities
Attack type
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, cultural genocide, famine, forced labour, torture, mass rape, summary execution
Deaths1.2–2.2 million[1]
PerpetratorsKhmer Rouge, Kampuchea Revolutionary Army, Santebal, Communist Party of Kampuchea
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The Cambodian genocide[a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens[b] by the Khmer Rouge under the general secretaryship of Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of approximately 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, around 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million).[3][4][5]

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style.[c] Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General histories

  • Becker, E. (1986). When the war was over: The voices of Cambodia's revolution and its people. Simon and Schuster.[6]
  • Chandler, D. P. (1991). The tragedy of Cambodian history: Politics, war, and revolution since 1945. Yale University Press.[7][8]
  • Chandler, D. P. (2008). A history of Cambodia (4th ed.). Westview Press.[9][10]
  • Kiernan, B. (1985). How Pol Pot came to power: A history of communism in Kampuchea, 1930–1975. Verso.
  • Kiernan, B. (1996). The Pol Pot regime: Race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79. Yale University Press.[11][12]
  • Vickery, M. (1984). Cambodia 1975–1982. George Allen and Unwin.[13][14]

Biographies

  • Chandler, D. P. (1999). Brother number one: A political biography of Pol Pot (Rev. ed.). Westview Press.[15][16]
  • Dunlop, N. (2006). The lost executioner: A journey to the heart of the killing fields. Walker.
  • Mehta, H. C., & Mehta, J. B. (1999). Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia. Graham Brash.
  • Osborne, M. (1994). Sihanouk: Prince of light, prince of darkness. University of Hawai'i Press.[17][18]
  • Short, P. (2005). Pol Pot: Anatomy of a nightmare. Henry Holt.

The Khmer Rouge regime

  • Carney, T. M. (1977). Communist party power in Kampuchea (Cambodia): Documents and discussion. Cornell University Department of Asian Studies.[19]
  • Chandler, D. P. (1976). The constitution of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia): The semantics of revolutionary change. Pacific Affairs, 49(3), 506–515. JSTOR 2755501
  • Chandler, D. P., & Kiernan, B. (Eds.). (1983). Revolution and its aftermath in Kampuchea: Eight essays. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.[20][21]
  • Chandler, D. P., Kiernan, B., & Boua, C. (Eds.). (1988). Pol Pot plans the future: Confidential leadership documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976–1977. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.[22][23]
  • Chandler, D. P. (1999). Voices from S-21: Terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison. University of California Press.[24][25]
  • Cunha, M. P. e, Clegg, S., Rego, A., & Lancione, M. (2012). The organization (Angkar) as a state of exception: The case of the S-21 extermination camp, Phnom Penh. Journal of Political Power, 5(2), 279–299.
  • Etcheson, C. (1984). The rise and demise of Democratic Kampuchea. Westview Press.[26][27]
  • Frieson, K. (1988). The political nature of Democratic Kampuchea. Pacific Affairs, 61(3), 405–427. JSTOR 2760458
  • Heder, S. R. (2004). Cambodian communism and the Vietnamese model: Vol. 1. Imitation and independence, 1930–1975. White Lotus Press.
  • Jackson, K. D. (Ed.). (1989). Cambodia, 1975–1978: Rendezvous with death. Princeton University Press.[28][29]
  • Kiernan, B., & Boua, C. (Eds.). (1982). Peasants and politics in Kampuchea, 1942–1981. Zed Press.[30][31]
  • Kiernan, B. (1996). The Pol Pot regime: Race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79. Yale University Press.[11][12]
  • Locard, H. (2004). Pol Pot's little red book: The sayings of Angkar. Silkworm Books.[32]
  • Locard, H. (2005). State violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) and retribution (1979–2004). European Review of History, 12(1), 121–143.
  • Locard, H. (Ed. & Trans.). (2023). Jungle heart of the Khmer Rouge: The memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot's Jarai aide-de-camp, and the role of tribal minorities in the Cambodian revolution. NIAS Press.[33][34]
  • McIntyre, K. (1996). Geography as destiny: Cities, villages and Khmer Rouge orientalism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(4), 730–758.
  • Path, K., & Kanavou, A. (2015). Converts, not ideologues? The Khmer Rouge practice of thought reform in Cambodia, 1975–1978. Journal of Political Ideologies, 20(3), 304–332.
  • Ponchaud, F. (1978). Cambodia: Year zero (N. Amphoux, Trans.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Original work published 1977)[35][36]
  • Pribble, S. (2023). The barter economy of the Khmer Rouge labor camps. Routledge.[37]
  • Slocomb, M. (2006). Chikreng rebellion: Coup and its aftermath in Democratic Kampuchea. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16(1), 59–72.
  • Tyner, J. A. (2008). The killing of Cambodia: Geography, genocide and the unmaking of space. Ashgate.[38]
  • Tyner, J. A., & Rice, S. (2015). To live and let die: Food, famine, and administrative violence in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975–1979. Political Geography, 48, 1–10.
  • Tyner, J. A. (2017). From rice fields to killing fields: Nature, life, and labor under the Khmer Rouge. Syracuse University Press. JSTOR j.ctt1pk864f[39][40]
  • Tyner, J. A. (2019). The nature of revolution: Art and politics under the Khmer Rouge. University of Georgia Press. JSTOR j.ctt22nmc98

Victims

Aftermath

People's Revolutionary Tribunal

Khmer Rouge tribunal

International involvement

Historiography

Memory studies

Primary sources

Survivor testimony and memoirs

  • Affonço, D. (2007). To the end of hell: One woman's struggle to survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge (M. Burn & K. Hogben, Trans.). Reportage Press.[d]
  • Bizot, F. (2003). The gate (E. Cameron, Trans.). Harvill. (Original work published 2000)
  • Chon, G., & Thet Sambath. (2010). Behind the killing fields: A Khmer Rouge leader and one of his victims. University of Pennsylvania Press.[123]
  • Dith Pran (Comp.), & DePaul, K. (Ed.). (1997). Children of Cambodia's killing fields: Memoirs by survivors. Yale University Press.[124][125]
  • Him, C. (2000). When broken glass floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge. W. W. Norton.[126]
  • Ngor, H., & Warner, R. (1987). A Cambodian odyssey. Macmillan.
  • Panh, R., & Bataille, C. (2012). The elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields (J. Cullen, Trans.). Other Press. (Original work published 2012)[127][128]
  • Pin Yathay, & Man, J. (1987). Stay alive, my son. Free Press.
  • Ung, L. (2000). First they killed my father: A daughter of Cambodia remembers. HarperCollins.
  • Vann Nath. (1998). A Cambodian prison portrait: One year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 (Moeun Chhean Nariddh, Trans.). White Lotus.
  • Yimsut, R. (2011). Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian journey. Rutgers University Press. JSTOR j.ctt5hj3m0

Archives and documentation

  • Documentation Center of Cambodia – founded in 1995 as a field office of Yale's Cambodian Genocide Program and independent since 1997
  • Cambodian Genocide Databases – DC-Cam biographic (30,442 records), bibliographic (2,963), photographic (5,190 S-21 prisoner photographs) and geographic databases
  • Queen Mother Library – DC-Cam reference library holding over 1.7 million pages of Khmer Rouge records and more than 100,000 hours of recorded interviews
  • Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center – Phnom Penh archive of film, photographs and sound recordings on Cambodia, founded by Rithy Panh

Trial records

Further reading

See also

References

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