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Part One: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Pol Pot

Behind the Bastards

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Cambodians Aren't Ready to Be Voting

In 1952, King CNN of Cambodia launches a crusade to gain Cambodian independence within three years. He bans all political meetings in Nampen and he has French soldiers and armored vehicles fill the streets. His mom hated democracy without the idea of people voting so this was an insult to her personally. The king is supported in this by his mom who'd once called him Tubby.

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