Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Regime
'He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse'.
Khmer Rouge maxim
For most of the last half of the 20th century Cambodia was racked by war and famine. Considered a ‘sideshow' in the Second Indochina War, it was invaded by both North and South Vietnam, bombed to bits by the United States, strewn with land mines and lethal weapons of every kind, and – worst of all – ruled, between 1975 and 1979, by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot. By 1979 the situation had become so terrible that the very name ‘Cambodia' was synonymous with suffering...
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Khmer Rouge maxim
For most of the last half of the 20th century Cambodia was racked by war and famine. Considered a ‘sideshow' in the Second Indochina War, it was invaded by both North and South Vietnam, bombed to bits by the United States, strewn with land mines and lethal weapons of every kind, and – worst of all – ruled, between 1975 and 1979, by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot. By 1979 the situation had become so terrible that the very name ‘Cambodia' was synonymous with suffering...
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