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Pol Pot Part 4: The Killing Fields

Real Dictators

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Cambodia - A Disaster Without Walls

On January 5th, 1976, Cambodia is officially reconstituted as democratic campochia. Paul Partas turned the country into a giant jail without walls. The immediate evacuation throwing people out of the ponpin was the first step in eliminating classic communities. Families, your faith, they closed the pagodas, they closed schools and marketplaces. You make everybody separate, scared and unable to react.

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