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Collective Amnesia on the Memory of the Khmer Rouge

Collective Amnesia on the Memory of the Khmer Rouge

Thirty years after Cambodia’s worst nightmare and hell, the matter of the Khmer Rouge is now found in a secondary school textbook in the country. For the first time, the genocide will be taught. Unfortunately, its textbook entry is all of these few lines: “Between 25 and 27 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge leaders held an extraordinary congress [...]