From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Title | From Rice Fields to Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Tyner |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2017-10-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0815654227 |
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.
Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
Title | Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Tyner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-11-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783489162 |
This book explores how the legacy of violence during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia is memorialized. Engaging with war, violence and critical heritage studies, the book looks at how the selective production of heritage diminishes opportunities for justice and reconciliation beyond the violence. It should be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in heritage studies, memory, trauma, genocide, dark tourism, and Cambodia.
Survival in the Killing Fields
Title | Survival in the Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Haing Ngor |
Publisher | Robinson |
Pages | 573 |
Release | 2012-10-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1472103882 |
Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.
Alive in the Killing Fields
Title | Alive in the Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Nawuth Keat |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 142630515X |
Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death. Nawuth’s story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom for readers of all ages.
Killing Fields, Living Fields
Title | Killing Fields, Living Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Don Cormack |
Publisher | Monarch Books |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2001-05-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780825460029 |
The Cambodian Church was first planted among the rice farmers of North-West Cambodia in the mid-1920s. Growth was slow and painful. This work tells the story through the lives and testimonies of a handful of strategic Christians.
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Title | Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Kim DePaul |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300078732 |
Publisher Fact Sheet This extraordinary collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s offers searing testimony to an era of brutality, brainwashing, betrayals, starvation, & gruesome executions.
I Survived the Killing Fields
Title | I Survived the Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Kok-ung Seng |
Publisher | Seng Kok Ung |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1450756174 |