PHNOM PENH: When black-clad Khmer Rouge soldiers first charged into Phnom Penh, they were welcomed with cheers, remembers Chhung Kong, a teacher in the Cambodian capital during the seventies.
Few foresaw the horrors that lay ahead as Pol Pot’s victorious communist army seized control early on April 17, 1975, signalling the end of a bloody civil war, and ordered the city’s two million people to evacuate.
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