The Khmer Rouge

"Mass Graves"

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Cambodia Picture by Tim Rea
Travel story: The Khmer Rouge

We decided to look into the very sad history of Cambodia. Soon after the Vietnam war ended and the idea of communism was spreading, a party developed in Cambodia called the Khmer Rouge. In most part, they were a dictatorship run by a man named Pol Pot.

In the mid 70's the Khmer Rouge marched into Pnom Penh to overthrow the cambodian government. The khmer rouge had extreeme ideas that Cambodia should be operated without any external influences/evils- having everyone work in... More