How does the Cambodian experience compare to other genocides in history?

His government killed between 1.7 and 2.2 million people in the Cambodian genocide. He has been called one of the most brutal dictators in world history. He presided over a totalitarian dictatorship which made urban dwellers move to the countryside to work in collective farms and on forced labour projects. The ... "As to what I will do with his family, I haven't decided," says Ta Mok. "If I let them go, will they say anything bad about me? Maybe they might be used by Hun ... This book is overloaded with details upon details that do not really give any real insights into what happened in Cambodia or upon Pol Pot. This is not the ... Jun 10, 2014 ... They are awaiting trial, provided they do not die first, as did Pol Pot and Ta Mok (“the butcher”). Although these trials have generated new ... Oct 19, 2007 ... In an effort to transform Cambodia into an agrarian society, Pol Pot emptied the cities forcing people into the country where hundreds of ... Jan 7, 2024 ... What lessons can modern Americans draw from the Cambodian nightmare? I'd suggest we show no tolerance toward grandiose social experiments of any ... But Pol Pot, while acknowledging that "our movement made mistakes," insisted that he had ordered killings in self-defense, to save Cambodia from its Vietnamese ... How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what ... Pol Pot (1925-1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the nation's de facto leader between April 1975 and January 1979.