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Pol Pot Part 3: Vietnam War, Cambodian Revolution

Real Dictators

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Cambodia: A Memoir of the Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge has control of two thirds of Cambodian territory and about half the population. But Pol Pot knows that control of the country will only come when Penom Pen falls. The capital is creaking, but he just needs patience to strangle it into submission. As a child I was wishing that war stopped - so I went to Khmer and took over.

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