When Communist insurgents known as the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia in 1975, a spokesman claimed that in the process "2,000 years of history" had come to an end. What he meant was that the ...
Zhou, the leader of a country that came under communist rule before Cambodia, gave Samphan a piece of advice: You should not try to build a perfect communist country in just one step. In China ...
“A Cambodia led by Hun Manet might very well ... When a series of purges within the genocidal communist regime, blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million Cambodians, put his own life at risk ...
Despite the atrocities, Sambath said he came away from his hours of conversation with Nuon Chea believing that the ageing communist genuinely thought he was doing what was right for Cambodia.
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