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Burying China's complicity in the killing fields
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Jehangir S. Pocha
International Herald Tribune
05-03-2005
Outside this stark but pastoral monument to the victims of Cambodia's gory Khmer Rouge years southwest of Phnom Penh, a group of young men played cards recently and listened to Chinese pop music. Music from China seemed a bit incongruous, given that China, along with the United States and the Soviet Union, had helped create Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Beijing was the group's chief patron when it held power from 1975 through 1978 and killed more than 1.7 million people, a quarter of Cambodia's population, in its quest to ...
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