2003/12/01 by Ben Kiernan · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Cambodian History and Society #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Health and Conflict Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/1467271032000147041
openalex publication_date 2003/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In this research note Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp), scrutinizes estimates of the number of people killed in the two most recent cases of genocidal mass murder in Southeast Asia: Cambodia and East Timor. He concludes that the two cases were proportionately comparable, though many more people died in Cambodia. Each tragedy took the lives of over one-fifth of the population.