MY SAY: Lessons from the killing fields
It was 35 years ago, in April 1975, that the Khmer Rouge (KR) defeated the Lon Nol regime of Cambodia. Just last month, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal released a 143-page report on a demographic survey of the "killing fields" under the Democratic Kampuchea government. Four "Maoist kille...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/32434/ http://eprints.usm.my/32434/1/DZUL38.pdf |
| Summary: | It was 35 years ago, in April 1975, that the Khmer Rouge (KR) defeated the Lon Nol regime of Cambodia. Just last month, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal released a 143-page report on a demographic survey of the "killing fields" under the Democratic Kampuchea government.
Four "Maoist killers" among the senior leaders have been indicted by the tribunal on charges of mass atrocity during KR's short but bloody rule from 1975 to 1979.
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