The Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot's Reign of Terror

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On april the seventeenth, nineteen seventy five. The city of Pen on Pen awoke. To the end of a war. The beginning of something. Even more cataclysmic.

Five years Cambodia had been consumed. By conflict. It had been unable to resist the lunar pull of the extraordinary violence of neighboring Vietnam. And in Cambodia itself there'd been a brutal struggle between the US backed government of General Lon L and the insurgent forces of the Khmer Rouge. led by the communist revolutionary Pol Pot. Supported by China.

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