Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia During Vietnamese Occupation

by Ian G. Baird

Book Overview

In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge had become suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba in the northeast. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge a few years later. The subsequent ten-year occupation is remembered by many Cambodians as a time of further oppression, but this volume reveals an unexpected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299326144
• ISBN13: 9780299326142
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"