ABSTRACT
My historical research on the Khmer Rouge movement started in 1974, when I was an undergraduate at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I wrote an empirical study of the 1967-70 Khmer Rouge insurgency against the Sihanouk regime and soon published several shorter articles. At first I was relatively sympathetic to their purported reforms and nationalism, but when I commenced my Ph.D. research in 1978, I acknowledged my error and began what became a quarter-century project of documenting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime.
