World Without Genocide

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About thirty years after the Nazis party fell the same events would occur in a small Southeastern country known as Cambodia. World Without Genocide (2015) cataloged the sequence of events that occurred during the Cambodian Genocide from when Prince Sihanouk was overthrown by Lon Nol to the fall of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot’s death in 1998. From these events it is known the motive of the Khmer Rouge to send Cambodia into “Year Zero”. The article Khmer Rouge (2015), described the migration of Cambodians into labor camps throughout the Cambodian countryside. The article also wrote:
In the countryside, former city dwellers were put to work in slave labor camps, while the new regime, identifying itself only as Angka Loeu (Organization on High),

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