US EditionGathering held on Chicago's North Side for Cambodian Day of Remembrance
- Cambodia marked the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975.
- The Khmer Rouge, backed by Chinese and North Vietnamese forces, toppled Lon Nol's US-backed republican army.
- The Khmer Rouge, an ultra-Maoist group, initiated a four-year communist government, driving Cambodia back to "Year Zero".
- Survivor Sum Rithy, age 72, recalled Phnom Penh residents cautiously welcomed the Khmer Rouge, but soon cadres began a gunpoint evacuation.
- The Khmer Rouge's atrocities led to an estimated two million deaths, and the effects still shape Cambodia's political system.
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The Fall of Phnom Penh: The Left Has a Short Memory
Who in Europe today remembers the fall of Phnom Penh to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, which occurred just fifty years ago, on April 17th, 1975? Today, few voices are raised to recall the terrible tragedy that occurred on that day, plunging Cambodia into a mass slaughter in which millions of poor people were killed in the name of the communist ideal. To the horror of Pol Pot’s bloody dictatorship was added the disturbing fact that it was, at the time, w…
Survivors of the massacres were prohibited from praying in front of the remains of the victims.
In Cambodia: the civil war ended but one of the most violent regimes of the twentieth century began, which lasted four years
Cambodia Is Still Haunted by the Legacy of the Khmer Rouge
Fifty years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Instead of rebuilding the country after a destructive US bombing campaign, Pol Pot’s movement plunged it into one of the last century’s most horrifying catastrophes.
Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian capital and began one of the bloodiest social experiments of the 20th century. However, we cannot find direct testimony about that day in the Czechoslovak archives. No one was there to provide it.
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