FAILED UTOPIA: CAMBODIA'S PAST WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE.(Wire/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 5, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Jane Hoback, Rocky Mountain News

They were known as the killing fields, a landscape of death that came to define the world's view of Cambodia in the late 20th century.

The Khmer Rouge, led by a notorious communist named Pol Pot, slaughtered, starved or worked to death an estimated 1.7 million to 3 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 in a fanatical utopian quest.

The leaders sacrificed their fellow Cambodians in a plan to create a perfect agrarian society by abolishing city life; dismantling families; and banning religion, education, Western medicine, private ...

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