S1 Ep1: An Introduction to the Khmer Rouge, the Killing Fields and the 'Cambodian Genocide'
In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare
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The Eviction of Panom Pen
Panom Pen had been completely emptied for the last four years. With little more than a skeleton crew of top Khmer Rouge officials and workers having lived in the city, they had done nothing to maintain it. Piles of rusted cars adorned some intersections, while groups of mopeds just sat in the middle of others. The central market, a huge building consisting of a large central dome with four arms of large hallways branching out from its sides, was surrounded by barbed wire and debris. This market, the heart of Panom Pen, had stopped beating. About halfway down Nourdon Boulevard, the convoy drove past the Priya Sisawarth High School. These men
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