Cold War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Cambodian genocide (1975–79)
On the Cold War map as “The Khmer Rouge”
1975–79 — Pol Pot’s regime empties the cities and works, starves and executes roughly a quarter of Cambodia’s people — perhaps 1.7 million. A category of horror of its own. Remember them.
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- Vietnam War (chapter 7 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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