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Cambodia: Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

Only a handful of foreigners were allowed to visit Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge period of Democratic Kampuchea. Pol Pot, Brother No. 1 in the Khmer Rouge regime is most associated with the bloody terror of the regime he led … Weiterlesen

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Aki Ra, former child soldier

Aki Ra is the founder of the Land Mine Museum near Siem Reap, Cambodia. “I was given my first gun at the age of ten. I was a Child soldier of the Khmer Rouge. I’m told that my parents were … Weiterlesen

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