Word: cambodians
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...pacifist talk belied a sinister agenda, one that would remain hidden to the outside world for years. When the Khmer Rouge succeeded in capturing the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in 1975, they evacuated the entire population of the city - more than 2.5 million people - to camps in the countryside. Similar evacuations took place every time the Khmer Rouge took over a new city...
...impossible to tally the total number dead with any precision, but it is generally assumed that the Khmer Rouge killed between one million and two million people during their reign. Thousands more died of malnutrition or disease, and the upper classes of Cambodian society were all but wiped out. The killing continued unabated until Vietnamese troops, tired of border skirmishes with the Khmer Rouge, invaded in 1979 and sent the Khmer Rouge back to the jungles...
...crowded at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday, as scores of foreign tourists visited the gated high school that was once a Khmer Rouge prison and execution center. Meanwhile, in a courtroom in the sprawling outskirts of the city, Tuol Sleng's former chief became the first member of Pol Pot's infamous regime to stand trial for crimes against humanity at the U.N.-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts (ECCC) of Cambodia, more than 30 years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge...
...Some developing countries welcome a new model of capitalism. Cambodia, for example, has played the game of global trade; it signed a deal with the U.S. governing its garment exports, a big part of its economy. Now some Cambodian leaders think they should look elsewhere. "Why wouldn't we copy what China did?" one official in Phnom Penh said to me. "We had years of what the U.S. told us to do, and got this" (he pointed at beggars crawling outside a five-star hotel). "Now we go to China and all we see is how far ahead...
...Cambodia Not-So-Friendly Fire Two Cambodian soldiers were killed Oct. 15 when Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged fire at a border spot occupied by a disputed ancient temple. Each nation claimed that the other fired first. Cambodia also announced it had captured 10 Thai soldiers, though Thailand accounted for all its troops. Tensions have been high since July, when Cambodian troops detained three Thai protesters for crossing the border in order to enter the disputed area...