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Surviving Cambodia鈥檚 鈥楰illing Fields鈥�

The Khmer Rouge were extremist communists who came to power in 1975. They began a mass social engineering project forcing millions of people into brutal labour camps and executed professionals and intellectuals. By the time they were defeated in 1979, around two million people had been killed, about a quarter of the population. Sokphal Din was a teenager who survived 鈥榯he killing fields鈥�. He told Witness History about that terrifying ordeal, and how it could happen again if the lessons from Cambodia aren鈥檛 learnt.

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