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SUMMARY:Ben Kiernan - "Challenging Pol Pot: The Courage and the Fate of Ho
 u Yuon\, one of Cambodia’s ‘Three Ghosts’"
LOCATION:Luce Hall Luce 203\, 34 Hillhouse Avenue\, New Haven\, CT 06511
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nCambodia’s “Three Ghosts” were Marxist parliamentar
 ians of the Sihanouk era (1953-70)\, popularly elected to Cambodia’s Nati
 onal Assembly in 1962\, re-elected in 1966\, but then threatened by Lon N
 ol’s military. They fled for their lives the next year. All three joined 
 the Khmer Rouge rebels but were widely thought to have been killed by the
  military. Two of them\, Hou Yuon and Hu Nim\, were later murdered by Pol
  Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime\, but the third\, Khieu Samphan\, was appointed
  that regime’s head of state\, and is currently serving a life sentence f
 or extermination and genocide\, imposed by the UN-sponsored Cambodia trib
 unal.\n\nEspecially during its brutal rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979\
 , Pol Pot’s Communist Party of Kampuchea leadership sought to overcome in
 ternal opposition and even faced armed resistance to its widespread party
  purges\, its genocides of ethnic minorities\, its murder of up to a mill
 ion Cambodians\, and the 700\,000 deaths by starvation\, disease\, and ov
 erwork that resulted from its policies. This talk will examine the motive
 s and tactics behind one specific murder that occurred during the first y
 ear of that regime. Had Pol Pot’s group spared the country’s leading diss
 ident Marxist Hou Yuon in 1975\, his continuing outspoken activism might 
 well have inspired broader opposition among Khmer Rouge members as well a
 s other Cambodians\, and likely helped resist the regime’s genocidal camp
 aigns.\n\nSpeaker:\nBen Kiernan\nA. Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus o
 f Hi\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/3434c85e-a6c4-4a1a-a133-cfa6be3b83d2
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/3434c85e-a6c4-4a1a-a133-cfa6be3b83d2
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