http://www.yale.edu/cgp/index.html Cambodia Genocide Program The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.
Run by Ben Kiernan, who wrote, "How Pol Pot Came To Power, " for Verso.
Kiernan, recanted his previous views on the KR, cited in Chomsky and Herman, and was a thesis adviser for Sophal Ear, http://jim.com/canon.htm Undergraduate Political Science Honors Thesis: The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia
Sophal Ear
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Ronald E. McNair Scholar
Academic Achievement Division
E-mail: sophal at csua.berkeley.edu
URL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~sophal
May 1995 CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: ROMANTICIZING THE KHMER REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 3: THE CHOMSKY-LACOUTURE CONTROVERSY
CHAPTER 4: BEYOND THE STAV
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
-- Michael Pugliese