Episode 48 - The Killing Fields of Cambodia
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English - August 23, 2018 00:33 - 1 hour - 111 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHistory Science Social Sciences afghanistan bhopal english history london peshtigo rwanda army champawat chinese Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1975, the Communist Party Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia, and began a series of measures to eliminate their perceived internal opponents and to transform their country into an agrarian-based, communist society. Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, tried to cleanse Cambodian society along racial, social, religious and political lines. They would eventually be overthrown by a foreign army, but only after they had killed 1.5 to 3 million people.