• DOI:10.1080/13507480500047811
• Corpus ID: 144712717

State Violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) and Retribution (1979–2004)

@article{Locard2005StateVI,
  title={State Violence in Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) and Retribution (1979–2004)},
  author={Henri Locard},
  journal={European Review of History: Revue europ{\'e}enne d'histoire},
  year={2005},
  volume={12},
  pages={121 - 143}
}

• H. Locard
• Published 1 March 2005
• Political Science
• European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

Along with perhaps North Korea, Democratic Kampuchea (DK), as the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime called itself, can be regarded as the ultimate twentieth-century paradigm of the totalitarian state. Using sheer violence and terror, a small clique usurped state power viewing itself as endowed with the messianic mission to bring happiness and prosperity faster than any of its revolutionary model and competitors. It came to control every aspect of social and private life. No one was allowed to nurse, let alone express, any form of opposition.