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Pol Pot Part 1: Tyrant in the Shadows
Real Dictators
A Brief History of Panompen, Cambodia
In 19 34, when salotsar is about nine years old, the price of rice rockets up. His father decides it's time for his son to find a place in one of its prestigious french schools. Salot's older brother is already building a life there. He's found a job within the royal palace and has wangled himself a suitable wife. It's difficult to overstate just how different life is in panompen compared with the rest of cambodia. In stark contrast to the decadence of the royals, this is a bastion of asceticism and self denial. An expat community of a few hundred french families inhabit their own bubble,. recreating
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