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5/26/23 Nick Turse on the Crimes of Henry Kissinger

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The Rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge was a fringe movement when the U.S. started secret bombing in Cambodia, says Peter Bergen. "Bombers gave the Khmer Rouge just a tremendous recruiting tool," writes Bergen. The regime plunged Cambodia into this campaign of overwork and torture that killed about 20% of the population,. About 2 million people died under Pol Pot's rule.

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