The Organization of the Cambodian Genocides 1975-1979

Ben Kiernan, Ph.D.
Department of History and International & Area Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University

Via Zoom
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Professor Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and International & Area Studies, MacMillan Center, at Yale University spoke on “The Organization of the Cambodian Genocides 1975 - 1979.”

Kiernan, who obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, was the founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-99; 2001-present) and Convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-02). He received grants to document the crimes of the Pol Pot regime; to establish the Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh; and to recruit, fund, equip and train its Cambodian staff.

He is also the author of How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975 (2004), Cambodia: The Eastern Zone Massacres (1986), The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (2008).