Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial, and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor

Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began In Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable.

Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University