Decades of bloodshed in Cambodia.

From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) | Date: August 23, 1998 | Copyright information

CAMBODIA won full independence from France in 1953 but the Government, led by Prince Sihanouk, was attacked by the Marxist Khmer Rouge.

After a military coup in 1970 Lt-Gen Lon Nol became president, but five years later Khmer Rouge fighters took control. The Government, led by Pol Pot, killed intellectuals and evacuated towns, forcing the population to work in the countryside.

In 1978, Vietnam invaded and...

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