Cambodia commemorates victims of Khmer Rouge genocide on its 50th anniversary

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00:00Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's communist Khmer Rouge launched

00:06a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people.

00:12On Cambodia's Anno Day of Remembrance, around 2,000 people attended a ceremony honoring

00:18the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide at the site of one of the most notorious killing

00:24fields some 15 kilometers south of the capital Phnom Penh.

00:29Dozens of student actors from the Phnom Penh Art School re-enacted brutalities under the

00:34Khmer Rouge which held power from 1975 to 1979 when an estimated one-quarter of Cambodia's

00:42population was wiped out from torture, starvation, executions and misrule.

00:49The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975 and immediately ordered almost all the

00:56city's residents into the countryside.

00:59The regime ruled until 1979 when it was driven from power by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam,

01:05forcing its ruler, Pol Pot, into hiding.

01:07The Khmer Rouge

01:09The Khmer Rouge

01:11The Khmer Rouge

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