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A Cambodian village under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979
Genocide and democracy in Cambodia : the Khmer Rouge, the United Nations, and the international community, edited with an introduction by Ben Kiernan • (41) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 51-63
By: Ebihara, May, Kiernan, Ben.
Abstract
In this document , anthropologist May Ebihara provides a detailed account of her 1989 and 1990 visit to the Cambodian village of Sobay which she studied in 1959-1960. The focus is on changes that have occurred in the village in the intervening three decades and especially because of the 1975-1979 civil war. She shows that the Khmer Rouge controlled Sobay only after their final capture of Phnom Pehn on April 17, 1975. For this reason, the residents of Sobay were politically labelled as "new people" which subjected them to even more harsh repression than people in formerly "liberated" areas. A majority of the villagers were killed, although some of Ebihara's former friends and neigbors also managed to survived.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field Date
- 1959-1960, 1989-1991
- Coverage Date
- 1959-1991
- Coverage Place
- Cambodia
- Notes
- May Ebihara
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 93060073
- LCSH
- Khmers