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Cambodia commemorates victims of Khmer Rouge genocide on its 50th anniversary
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20/05/2025
Cambodia commemorates victims of Khmer Rouge genocide on its 50th anniversary
Hundreds of Cambodians marked the Day of Remembrance by attending a ceremony honouring victims of the Khmer Rouge at one of the "killing fields".
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Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's communist Khmer Rouge launched
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a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people.
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On Cambodia's Anno Day of Remembrance, around 2,000 people attended a ceremony honoring
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the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide at the site of one of the most notorious killing
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fields some 15 kilometers south of the capital Phnom Penh.
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Dozens of student actors from the Phnom Penh Art School re-enacted brutalities under the
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Khmer Rouge which held power from 1975 to 1979 when an estimated one-quarter of Cambodia's
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population was wiped out from torture, starvation, executions and misrule.
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The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975 and immediately ordered almost all the
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city's residents into the countryside.
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The regime ruled until 1979 when it was driven from power by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam,
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forcing its ruler, Pol Pot, into hiding.
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