Home›Sources›Ben Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press)SourcesBen Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press)Ben Kiernan, Yale University Press, 2008 (3rd edition)Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Ben Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/kiernan-the-pol-pot-regime.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Ben Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/kiernan-the-pol-pot-regimeCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-ben-kiernan-the-pol-pot-regime-race-powe, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Ben Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/kiernan-the-pol-pot-regime}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXBen Kiernan's book-length demographic and historical study of the Cambodian genocide, first published in 1996 and issued in a revised third edition in 2008. Its demographic analysis of the Khmer Rouge period, also published in Kiernan's 2003 journal article "The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia" in Critical Asian Studies, puts the 1975 Cham Muslim population at 250,000 and calculates that approximately 90,000, 36 percent, died under the regime.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1A peer-reviewed academic historian's book-length demographic study, the founding source for Cambodian genocide mortality estimates that later scholarship and human rights reporting builds on; the same reliability class as this axis's other primary academic demographic sources.NotesWell-attestedThe founding academic demographic study of the Cambodian genocide, authored by a historian who has worked on the period since the early 1980s using survivor interviews and archival record reconstruction; its Cham population and mortality figures are the most consistently cited academic baseline for this minority's death toll. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedBen Kiernan 1PublisherWell-attestedYale University Press 1Publication YearWell-attested2008 1URLWell-attestedhttps://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300144345/the-pol-pot-regime/ 1Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monograph 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Ben Kiernan, "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (Yale University Press)tier 1Ben Kiernan, Yale University Press, 2008View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)This source backs 3 claims across the atlas. As facts: 2 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicReligious Events, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested2Religious EventsThe Khmer Rouge Persecution of Cambodia's Cham MuslimsGeneral References1Religious EventsThe Khmer Rouge Persecution of Cambodia's Cham MuslimsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year