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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — Vietnam in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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