Pretty as a picture: Dancers lining up to perform during the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime at the National Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh. — AFP
PHNOM PENH: Tens of thousands of Cambodians packed a stadium in Phnom Penh to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the expulsion of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime – a day strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country’s “second birthday”.
The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, installed a reign of terror in 1975 that left two million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labour, torture and mass executions.
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