David Chandler Cambodia Collection

Documentation for Pol Pot’s Biography
This box contains the notes and other research materials used by Dr. Chandler for his biography of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot.)

Documentation for Pol Pot’s Biography
(This box contains the notes and other research materials used by Dr. Chandler for his biography of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. In this box there are also official DK translations of some of Pol Pot’s speeches and interviews)

Documentation for Pol Pot’s Biography in Khmer language

Documentation on Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1978
This box contains research materials on Democratic Kampuchea as follows:

Article on the Communist Party of Kampuchea (some pages missing,
undated and un-authored).

Miscellaneous Materials 1975-1976 (This folder contains materials in both English and Khmer languages, as arranged by Dr. Chandler)

Radio Broadcast – 10 March 1976  (Khmer language)

Issues of “Revolutionary Youth” (Khmer language) for 1975-78

Interview of Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Foreign Affairs of Democratic
Kampuchea in Der Spiegel (Germany) May 1977

Issue of “Tung Padevat” (Khmer language) No. 8 August 1975

Distortions at Fourth Hand (Comments by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman on books about Democratic Kampuchea published during 1976-77) in The Nation (USA), 25 June 1977

News from Kampuchea-Australia’s only Newsletter of Kampuchean Affairs
Some issues for 1977

Statement of the Government of Democratic Cambodia to Democratic Cambodia’s Friends, near and far, on the Five Continents and to World Public Opinion on the Aggression launched by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces against Democratic Cambodia   3 January 1978?

Statement of the Communist Party of Kampuchea to the Communist Workers’ Party of Denmark, July 1978 by Nuon Chea, Deputy Secretary, CPK

Democratic Kampuchea: A Spartan Socialism, Francois Rigaux, 1978
(French language)

Kyodo News Services series of reports on Democratic Kampuchea

A Brother of Pol Pot’s saved from Genocide

DK Geography Text (undated, in Khmer language)

Six Revolutionary Songs, translated by Dr. D. Chandler

Report to Angkar – regarding two youths named Kong and Sokha (Khmer language)

Report to Angkar regarding a Vietnamese Seng and his activities against Angkar
(Khmer language)

Press articles on DK - 1979

Handwritten research notes by Dr. D. Chandler: This box includes folders with materials from the Khmer Students Association (in Khmer language) for the [period 1970-75, Dr. Chandler’s research notes for an article in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (1985), copies of Son Ngoc Than’s newspaper “Khmer Wake Up” for Jan-March 1952 and of “Norwath Serey” Cambodian newspaper for 1952.

Documentation on the People’s Republic of Kampuchea as follows:

• Music and Text of the National Anthem of the PRK
• Bio-Data on leadership of the PRK
• Biographic Information on officials of PRK (FBIS) 6 May 1986

• The truth about the Vietnam-China relationship during the last 30 years 1979
• Political Handbook of the PRK, 1987. (in Khmer language)
• Selected Press articles on Cambodia under the PRK

This box contains the following folders with research notes, mostly handwritten notes, for Dr. Chandler’s work on Cambodia. They have been left in the same order that Dr. Chandler placed them with the titles given by him during his research:

• Transformation of Cambodia 1961-1975  Part I
• Transformation of Cambodia 1961-1975  Part II
• New York Times Index of Articles 1958-1975
• Cambodian French Language Press- Research Notes 1950-60
• Untitled folder of research notes

This box also contains research handwritten notes by Dr. Chandler as well as a selection of British Diplomatic Reports for the period 1947-1960:

• Miscellaneous material on Cambodia between 1945-1970 Part I
• Miscellaneous material on Cambodia between 1945-1970 Part II
• British Diplomatic Reports 1947-1960
• British Diplomatic Reports 1953 (King Sihanouk’s exile in Thailand)
• British Diplomatic Reports 1959 (Dap Chhuon Affair)
• British Diplomatic Reports 1959 (Attempted assassination of King and Queen, Assassination of Communist Newspaper editor)