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62
Bizot, François
218
–19
held captive by Khmers Rouges
233
–5,
259
–60,
315
,
358
after fall of Phnom Penh (1975)
269
,
276
,
283
Bjork, Kaj
354
Black Paper
387
‘boat people’
379
Boeng Keng Kâng
116
,
117
,
120
,
312
Bokeo
174
,
175
,
177
Bokor hill resort
28
,
183
n
Bolshevik Revolution
71
,
341
Botum Vaddei, Wat
20
,
21
,
23
Boudemedienne, Houari
297
Bowles, Chester
181
Brahminism
18
Brezhnev, Leonid
90
,
362
Brown, Harold
378
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
378
,
380
,
420
–1
Buddhism
84
,
197
,
285
,
445
distinctiveness
18
,
25
,
41
,
327
and Pol Pot
20
–1,
84
interaction with Marxism
65
,
149
–50,
234
–5,
295
,
317
,
323
n,
324
,
328
Buddhist Institute
75
‘Buddhist Socialism’
150
Bunchan Mol
83
,
365
as anti-colonial activist
30
,
35
,
151
n
as Issarak leader
87
–8,
151
n
Burma
7
,
332
,
342
,
381
Cahiers Internationaux
66
Caldwell, Malcolm
393
,
394
,
395
,
422
Cambodia
58
,
105
,
206
;
see also
Democratic Kampuchea, People’s Republic of Kampuchea
relations with France
5
,
16
,
26
,
28
–9,
31
–2,
34
–5,
352
French community in Phnom Penh
24
,
25
Fourth Republic
77
‘pacification efforts’
81
Sihanouk’s independence crusade
90
–5
relations with Japan
cession of Cambodian territory (1941)
28
wartime occupation
29
,
31
–2,
34
–5,
75
agrément
of Khmer Rouge Ambassador to Tokyo
382
relations with Thailand
28
relations with US
156
–7,
245
relations with China
179
,
301
–2,
379
Cambodian air force
175
,
221
Cambodian communist movement
see
Khmer Viet Minh for pre-1955, Angkar and CPK for post 1955 references
Cambodian National Army
432
Cambodian National Bank
263
,
313
Cambodian National Union Party
430
,
434
Cambodian People’s Liberation Committee (CPLC)
39
Cambodian People’s Party (CPP; previously PRPK)
428
,
431
Camus, Albert
48
Canadian Marxist-Leninist Communist League
396
Cardamom Mountains
102
,
175
,
186
,
228
,
251
Carter, President Jimmy
378
,
420
Catholic Church
23
Ceausescu, Nicolae
381
Cercle Marxiste
80
,
107
established
63
structure and role
63
–5,
82
,
68
,
154
ideological influences on
66
,
70
,
73
–4,
248
and Pol Pot
81
–2,
89
–90
and Viet Minh
96
and Democratic Party
111
and Khieu Samphân
120
–1,
132
and Thiounn Mumm
154
supports Sihanouk after his overthrow
200
Cercles d’Etudes
52
CGDK (Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea)
419
chalat
29
Chams
230
,
254
,
326
,
327
,
354
Chamkar Mon
312
Chamraon Vichea
120
,
123
,
143
Chan Chakrey as divisional commander
258
,
268
,
276
and evacuation of Phnom Penh
274
–5
suspected
355
–6
interrogated at Tuol Sleng
358
Chan Samân
99
,
119
Chan Yourann
200
,
434
,
443
Chandler, David
290
Brother Number One
435
Chantarainsey, Prince
as Issarak leader
58
,
81
and Pol Pot
82
,
87
,
89
–90,
108
and Viet Minh
87
submits to government
101
killed
354
Chanthaburi
437
chantiers de la jeunesse
29
Chaovalit, General
408
Charny, Joel
290
Chatichai Choonhavan
339
n,
426
Chau Doc
104
Chau Seng
and Sihanouk
44
,
129
,
200
disgraced
133
–4,
80
,
182
Chea Samy
36
,
427
–8
Chea Sim
448
Chen Boda
160
Cheng Heng
197
Cheng On
286
,
336
n
Chenla offensives
219
Chey Chum
336
n
Chhang Song
88
Chhean Vâm
37
,
43
,
261
,
275
chhlorp
226
,
253
,
345
Chhorn Hay
304
,
330
,
334
Chhouk (Region
24
Secretary)
355
,
358
,
359
Chi Hê
32
Chi Kim An
155
and Viet Minh
96
,
98
,
114
and
Pracheachon
111
China
52
;
see also
Beijing
Chinese community
24
–5,
180
,
345
Great Leap Forward
125
,
301
and Sihanouk
127
,
179
,
182
,
301
–2,
403
,
412
‘Socialist Education Movement’
159
Cultural Revolution
159
,
170
,
179
,
239
,
255
,
301
and USSR
160
–1,
197
and Pol Pot
170
,
298
–303 ff,
341
–2
Embassy in Phnom Penh
194
and Democratic Kampuchea
352
,
373
,
397
and Vietnam
380
,
393
,
407
and US
403
,
407
and Khmers Rouges after Vietnamese invasion
405
,
406
–8,
420
–1
Chinit river
223
,
235
,
242
,
247
,
255
,
306
,
314
,
411
,
412
Chitrous, Mt
263
chivapol
(‘live forces’)
94
Chou Chet
336
n
and Pracheachon
114
,
140
,
384
flees to the maquis
143
and Mok
259
,
274
as Western Zone Secretary
305
arrested and purged
384
,
387
Chrok Sdêch
251
–2,
254
,
255
Churchill, Sir Winston: ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
53
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and Son Ngoc Thanh
127
,
131
and Sihanouk
128
,
155
,
196
,
259
Khmer Rouge obsession with
259
–60,
333
,
359
,
366
–8,
382
Clinton, Bill
447
Cochin-China
38
,
40
,
85
–6,
374
–5
Colby, William
245
Cold War
14
,
53
,
92
,
108
,
426
Collège Preah Sihanouk, Kompong Cham Pol Pot at
28
–29,
31
–4,
36
headmaster stoned
75
Comecon
380
Comintern (Communist International)
38
Confucianism
18
,
22
,
25
corruption
and Democratic Party
77
and Sihanouk’s regime
78
,
109
,
122
,
128
,
144
,
184
,
190
helps communists
153
,
182
and Lon Nol
261
and Khmers Rouges
287
,
307
,
432
COSVN (Central Office for South Vietnam)
see
Vietnam
cpap

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