Notes - Hun Sen's Cambodia - page 261

later published in Living Hell: Democratic Kampuchea, August 1978 (Phnom Penh: Docu-
mentation Center of Cambodia, 2008).
34. David Kline, Kampuchea: A Photo Record of the First American Visit since April 1975 (Ch-
icago: Liberator Press, 1979), 3.
35. Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, “Distortions at Fourth Hand,” The Nation , June 6,
1977.
36. Becker, When the War Was Over , 316.
37. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report, Asia & Pacific , August 27, 1978.
38. Rithy Panh, The Elimination , trans. John Cullen (London: The Clerkenwell Press, 2013), 1.
39. Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Kh-
mer Rouge, 1975-79 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 357.
40. David P. Chandler, Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison (Berke-
ley: University of California Press, 1999), 73.
41. Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime , 387.
42. Evan Gottesman, Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation-Building
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 8.
43. Short, Pol Pot , 397.
44. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report, Asia & Pacific , January 5, 1979.
2 The Second Revolution
1. Elizabeth Becker, When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution
(New York: Public Affairs, 1998), 399.
2. Harish C. Mehta and Julie B. Mehta, Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen (Singa-
pore: Marshall Cavendish, 2013), 124.
3. Author interview with Ouk Bunchhoeun, October 2, 2012.
4. When he joined the communists in 1970, Hun Sen gave his birthdate as April 4, 1951 in a bid
to conceal his young age from recruiters.
5. Interviews by Ben Kiernan, October 21, 1980, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale
University.
6. Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Kh-
mer Rouge, 1975-79 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 266 and 370.
7. Translated material from the Central Stasi Archives Berlin, provided by Bernd Schaefer,
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC. Hun Sen told his biographers that
the Vietnamese gave him the slightly different name “Mai Phuc,” meaning “happiness
forever,” so as not to “attract attention, or give rise to suspicions.” See Mehta and Mehta,
Strongman , 115.
8. Ibid.