What does the story of Bun Thab tell us about how ordinary people experienced the Khmer Rouge and how they made sense of it? How is it different from the scholarly account by Ben Kiernan?

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Please use the followoing resources below:

1.Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 540-554 (the section on Cambodia). This book is available as an ebook in the library.

2. “Bun Thab: A Khmer Rouge Escapee”, in Usha Welaratna, Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 117-135.
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