Posts Tagged ‘Pol Pot’

Collective Amnesia on the Memory of the Khmer Rouge

Sunday, February 22, 2009 22:41 By GSerrano

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 [...]

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Cambodia remembers an evil past

Thursday, January 8, 2009 19:45 By GSerrano

The vicious Khmer Rouge fell from power 30 years ago. Vietnamese-led forces toppled the murderous regime in 1979. As more than 40,000 Cambodians celebrate the three-decade anniversary, they are overwhelmed with both collective relief and the pain of bitter memory. Nearly 2 million died in the 4 years that the Khmer Rouge ruled with genocide. [...]

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