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40 years ago the Khmer Rouge were toppled from power in Cambodia, having taken over in 1975.
The extremist communists had orchestrated a mass social engineering project forcing millions of people into brutal labour camps and executed professionals and intellectuals.
By the time they were defeated in 1979, around two million people had been killed, about a quarter of the population.
Sokphal Din was a teenager who survived ‘the killing fields’.
The extremist communists had orchestrated a mass social engineering project forcing millions of people into brutal labour camps and executed professionals and intellectuals.
By the time they were defeated in 1979, around two million people had been killed, about a quarter of the population.
Sokphal Din was a teenager who survived ‘the killing fields’.
I survived Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’
Posted from bbc.com
Cambodia
Communism
World History
War Crimes
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The only reason Pol Pot isn't the biggest villain of the 20th century is because his scope was smaller than Mao, Stalin, and Hitler. If he had more time, he would have eclipsed all of them.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel it is amazing that we are born for purposes greater than we even know. This person serves as a light for humanity to remember, if only we will.
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