A comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s, this book presents the positions of traditional genocide scholars. The author argues that the Cambodian genocide and the Ethiopian genocide had very different motives.

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the Third World, this book presents the positions of traditional genocide scholars, but the book's author, Kissi, takes a different position, arguing that the Cambodian genocide and the Ethiopian genocide had very different motives.