Creator
Ben Kiernan
Ben Kiernan is a historian of Cambodia and the founding director of the Cambodian Genocide Program.[1][2][3] He wrote How Pol Pot Came to Power and The Pol Pot Regime.[1][2][3]
Cambodian research
Kiernan interviewed Cambodian refugees from 1978 to 1980 and learned Khmer.[4] In Phnom Penh, the program set up the Documentation Center of Cambodia under his direction.[2][4] The program recovered archives kept by the Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) secret police and developed the case for an international tribunal.[2][4]
Accounts date his Cambodian program directorship to 1994 to 1999, with a further term beginning in 2001. His founding directorships are also given a combined span of 1994 to 2015; the Genocide Studies Program is separately dated to 1998 to 2015.[1][2]
Books
How Pol Pot Came to Power appeared in 1985 and 2004 editions.[1][2] The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 appeared in 1996, 2002 and 2008.[1][2][3][5]
See also
References 5
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Yale University Department of History, Ben Kiernan | Department of History (undated)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Yale Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty, Ben Kiernan | Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty (undated)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Times Higher Education, From rice fields to killing fields (October 4, 1996)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Benedict Kiernan | Faculty Retirement Tributes (2022)
- ↑ Yale MacMillan Center Genocide Studies Program, Report of the Cambodian Genocide Program, 1994-1997 (February 1998)
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