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FAILED UTOPIA: CAMBODIA'S PAST WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE
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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 bannin...
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In Cambodia, a Clash Over History of the Khmer Rouge
The Washington Post
; In a country where half the students who enter grammar school never finish, Cheak Socheata, 18, is among the most privileged of her generation: She made it to college. But even Cheak, a first-year medical student at Phnom Penh's University of Health Sciences, has learned next to nothing in school
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Cambodia's Last, Best Chance; Hun Sen's Regime Is the Surest Way to Stop the Khmer Rouge
The Washington Post
; When the Vietnamese army leaves here, perhaps by September, the army of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, in which Hanoi has invested so much blood at so much cost, will be on its own. The conventional wisdom is that Phnom Penh's troops will be no match for the fanatical Khmer Rouge, who once
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Cambodia's future - II: the specter of the Khmer Rouge.
The Nation
; ... Norodom Sihanouk accused the Khmer Rouge of attacking Sihanoukist forces more than two dozen times since May. Yet a mid-December news agency photograph showed Sihanouk and Khmer Rouge president Khieu Samphan grinning broadly and clasping hands like long-lost ...
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The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79.
The Nation
; The Communists who laid waste to Cambodia and its people in the name of an agrarian revolution used the same purification doctrines that all genocidal regimes have employed. The nation, they decreed, had to be cleansed of all who were not borisot--pure. This wasn't merely a reference to Cambodia's
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Return to the killing fields: the Khmer Rouge wants to rule Cambodia again, and its leaders are using the sword to get their way.
U.S. News & World Report
; The Khmer Rouge wants to rule Cambodia again, and its leaders are using the sword to get their way The stern Khmer Rouge soldiers who roused Chea Chout from bed said they wanted him for two days of political education. That was last April, and Chea Chout has not seen his home in Cambodia's Kompong
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Seeking New Political Legitimacy
The Washington Post
; ... regimented organization whose political future would seem to depend either on fear or Cambodians' capacity to forgive and forget. In a news conference during a meeting here of Cambodia's Supreme National Council - a body representing the Phnom Penh government and three ...
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Showdown With the Khmer Rouge
The Washington Post
; As the United Nations peacemakers prepare for a showdown with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, their critics are declaring the peace plan for that country a shambles because the Khmer Rouge won't play by the rules. Implicit in this verdict is the notion that the Khmer Rouge are strong enough to hold
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Life With the Khmer Rouge Guerrillas; Some Defectors Tell of Forced Labor, Other Hardships
The Washington Post
; Heng Mon is 18 years old, but she has never been to school. Eight years ago, she began working as a "porter" carrying supplies for Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas. Until earlier this month, Heng Mon made the arduous four-day trek repeatedly, carrying on her back ammunition, rice and
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 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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What was the Khmer Rouge?
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
; Byline: Adam Fifield Cambodia's Communist Party was created in the early 1950s. By 1963, Saloth Sar, a former schoolteacher, had become its leader. He came to be known as Pol Pot. The party opposed American imperialism and the repressive policies of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Nicknamed the Khmer
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Twenty five years after Khmer Rouge, Cambodia remains divided over war-crimes tribunal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; PHNOM PENH, Cambodia _ When the guerrillas finally overran the capital, it was astonishing how young they looked. So many were just kids armed with AK-47s, bandoliers of ammunition and a half-dozen Chinese grenades pinned to their black pajamas. They were the sons of farmers and butchers and
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