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Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Regime
Story posted: 26. May 2011 by CPA Media
Pictures From History / Themes / DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEAPol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Regime
'Whoever questions is an enemy; whoever 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…
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Exploring Ancient Angkor
Story posted: 18. May 2011 by CPA Media
Pictures From History / Themes / ANCIENT ANGKORExploring Ancient Angkor
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Angkor is one of the wonders of the world. Perhaps nowhere else on earth, unless it be the Valley of the Nile in Egypt, are the relics of antiquity found on so monumental a scale. In colonial times, when the French first opened Angkor to tourism, it was usual to distinguish between the ‘Small Circuit’ comprising the central temples of the complex, and the ‘Great Circuit’, taking in the outer…
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