Remembering Cambodia's genocide in a corner of Africa

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Remembering Cambodia's genocide in a corner of Africa

Kigali, RWANDA- April 1975 was a cruel month for millions of Cambodians. Forty-nine years ago, on April 17, the Khmer Rouge finally captured Phnom Penh after a five-year civil war with the US-backed Lon Nol regime. One million residents and another million refugees in the capital city initially felt a sense of jubilation that the […] The post Remembering Cambodia’s genocide in a corner of Africa appeared first on Asia Times.