Pol Pot (109 page)
Authors: Philip Short
(traditional collections of moral maxims)
22
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23
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44
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324
CPK (Communist Party of Kampuchea)
see
Indochinese Communist Party, Khmers Viet Minh and PRPK for pre-1955 references to the Cambodian communist movement;
see also
Angkar
Standing Committee
3
,
336
,
340
transitional Party leadership (1955)
114
–16,
132
crisis of identity
121
–2
ideology
147
–50,
160
,
164
,
213
,
223
–4,
230
–1,
247
,
318
,
323
n,
342
–3
and Cambodian proletariat
149
moves HQ to Ratanakiri
162
,
172
internal divisions
177
,
258
–60,
304
and ‘armed propaganda teams’
187
–8
intellectuals join
191
obsession with secrecy
192
,
322
,
361
,
361
n
use of personal histories
279
–80
leadership residences
312
–13
870 (CC General Office)
313
Central Committee commissariat
330
never integral part of world communist movement
343
date of Party’s foundation
356
,
361
n
Security Committee
359
dissolves itself
416
–17
CPK Central Committee meetings
Autumn 1964
146
January 1965
147
,
156
October 1966
161
–2,
164
,
166
January 1971
225
–7
May 1972
228
,
230
,
246
September 1974
256
–60
May 1975 Work Conference
7
,
288
–9
September 1975
305
–9
February 1979 Work Conference
406
CPK Congresses
First Congress (1960)
137
–9
Second Congress (1963)
141
–2
Third Congress (1971)
227
Fourth Congress (1976)
308
Fifth Congress (1978)
392
Cuba
332
D–3
237
D–25
420
Dac Cong brigade
221
Dam Pheng
153
Danang
156
Dângkda
228
,
256
Dangrek Mountains
35
,
89
,
106
Dap Chhuon
as Issarak leader
39
,
88
and Sihanouk
41
,
76
–7,
92
,
125
defection of a former aide
54
and French
92
and ‘Bangkok Plot’
125
–8,
131
Dean, John Gunther
264
deathtoll under Khmer Rouges
10
–11
Decoux, Governor-General Jean
28
–9
Dekchoa Y
16
Democratic Kampuchea
12
,
346
,
342
,
368
,
412
,
381
–4;
see also
Cambodia, People’s Republic of Kampuchea
scale of death in
11
origins of name
47
constitution
331
,
332
,
344
Presidium
332
Council of Ministers
336
n,
336
military training in
342
communal eating
344
–6
treatment of children
347
,
350
squandering of intellectual resources
349
–50
hospitals and schools
349
–50
revolts
354
failed border talks with Vietnam
356
–7
alleged assassination plot
359
–60
preparations for military conflict with Vietnam
363
barbarism
370
–1
refugees from
372
rupture with Vietnam
372
–3,
377
–8
regime’s days are numbered
392
–3
Vietnam invades
395
forward defences fail
397
leaders abandon Phnom Penh
398
Democratic Party
42
,
51
,
58
,
62
,
82
,
154
takes office (1946)
37
radical wing
49
and student demonstrations
75
corruption of
77
MPs imprisoned (1953)
83
relations with Son Ngoc Thanh
106
and Pol Pot
107
–9
1945 elections
110
–13
Sihanouk crushes
114
,
123
,
128
Deng Xiaoping
159
,
352
,
357
and Pol Pot
300
,
341
,
362
,
377
,
389
,
415
–16,
418
and Chinese aid
301
and Sihanouk
331
,
403
,
414
on resisting Vietnam
391
,
402
–3,
407
Deng Yingchao
378
–9,
388
Deuch
450
and François Bizot
260
at S–21
358
,
364
,
386
,
400
on system of arrests
366
Dewhirst, John
367
Dien Bien Phu
102
Dith Pran
268
Doeun
336
n,
355
,
366
Dom Kveth
254
Douc Rasy
176
,
185
Dudman, Richard
393
,
394
Duk Nem
18
,
20
Dulles, John Foster
91
,
92
,
108
,
446
–7
Dumas, Roland
426
Ea Sichau
32
,
52
,
58
–62,
75
,
82
,
89
,
107
East Timor Liberation Front
342
Ecole Française de l’Extrême Orient
283
Ecole Française de Radio-Electricité
49
,
65
,
82
Ecole Miche
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,
24
,
29
,
31
Ecole Polytechnique
32
,
61
Egypt
332
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
91
,
108
,
128
Ekhepheap
(‘Unity’)
114
elections
1946
37
1955
110
–13
1958
123
–4,
129
1962
140
–1
1966
162
1976
343
–4
1993
430
–2
Fère-en-Tardenois
424
Fernandez, Sosthene
249
,
263
‘Fête de l’Humanité’
52
–3
foraging
346
,
348
,
370
Ford, Gerald
262
,
296
–7
France;
see also
Cambodia, relations with France
in Algeria
364
–5,
445
–6
French Communist Party (PCF)
67
and Khmer students in Paris
52
–3,
59
,
65
,
68
–9,
132
and Pol Pot
66
,
96
anti-intellectual bias
98
,
193
and doctrine of ‘peaceful transition’
136
French Embassy, Phnom Penh
271
French Expeditionary Corps
38
French National Students’ Union (UNEF)
62
French Revolution
13
,
206
taught in Cambodian schools
37
and Pol Pot
72
–4,
80
,
150
,
318
,
321
,
343
FUNCINPEC (United National Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia)
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,
428
–9,
431
–3,
437
–9,
441
FUNK (National United Front of Kampuchea)
309
,
344
created
199
–201,
244
as front organisation
223
,
229
,
267
radio station
224
,
240
,
314
n,
379
‘Gang of Four’
3
,
357
,
362
,
363
,
366
n
Gaulle, Charles de
200
General Association of Khmer Students (AGEK)
154
,
169
Geneva Conference (1954) and Cambodia
103
,
106
,
108
Pracheachon appeals to co-presidents
140
Germany
defeat in World War II
34
Nazis
69
,
364
,
365
,
444
Gorbachev, Mikhail
424
Gorce, Pierre
110
–11
Great Lake
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17
,
26
,
212
,
228
,
273
Great Leap Forward
125
,
301
Great Terror
67
Groslier, Bernard-Philippe
208
GRUNC (Cambodian Royal Government of National Union)
formed
201
–3
foreign relations of
202
,
240
–1,
243
–4,
261
as transitional regime
304
,
331
Gulf of Thailand
297
Haig, General Alexander
221
,
420
–1
Haing Ngor
278
,
282
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