Remembering Khmer Rouge atrocities


A slice of troubled past: Students re-enacting the Khmer Rouge crimes at the Choeung Ek memorial in Phnom Penh. — AFP

Students wearing all black and wielding bamboo clubs and wooden rifles staged a dramatic re-enactment of a genocide that killed two million people in the 1970s.

A quarter of Cambodia’s population died of starvation, forced labour or torture or were slaughtered in mass killings under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979.

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