Pol Pot Part 1: Tyrant in the Shadows
Real Dictators
Sianuk and the Cambodia Revolution
In 19 forty one, there is a new king on the cambodian throne. The french had hoped he'd be as much their puppet as his grandfather was. Sar's odyssey begins with a trip to vietnam and a stop off in sigon. He boards the s s jamaik, a weary old passenger liner that's been converted into a troop carrier ferrying french soldiers back and forth to the battlefields of indo china. At longlast, the jamec docks in marseilles, sa boards an overnight train to paris. That's how we begin our journey to global infamy.
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