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Chapters (28)
  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. CHAPTER ONE - Introduction
  5. Who Was Pol Pot?
  6. The First Year in Paris
  7. Joining the Viet Minh
  8. CHAPTER FIVE - “Red Khmer,” 1963—1970
  9. CHAPTER SIX - Coming to Power, 1970—1976
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN - Prairie Fire, 1976-1977
  11. Pol Pot in China and North Korea
  12. CHAPTER NINE - “Grandfather 87,” 1979—1998
  13. Chronology
  14. Appendix 1: - Non Suon’s Biography of Pol Pot
  15. Appendix 2: - Khmer Personnel at “Office 100,” 1963—1966
  16. Notes
  17. Chapter One
  18. Chapter Two
  19. Chapter Three
  20. Chapter Four
  21. Chapter Five
  22. Chapter Six
  23. Chapter Seven
  24. Chapter Eight
  25. Chapter Nine
  26. Interviews by Author
  27. Index
  28. Copyright Page

We are left with the ashes of an old man in a clearing in the forest, with the country that he damaged so severely, and with the memories of his time in power that haunt survivors on a daily basis. Pol Pot blamed the failure of the revolution on others. Perhaps he was right. Perhaps he did trust too many people. Perhaps his vision was too incandescent for others to accomplish. The failure of the revolution, however, like his ignominious death, is not the point. As his life came to an end, this seventy-three-year-old man was alone with the fact, whether he realized it or not, that because of his inhuman policies and his unswerving love of power, more than a million Cambodians, or one in seven, died in less than four years, pointlessly and often in great pain.

Chronology

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Chronology