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Article: FAILED UTOPIA: CAMBODIA'S PAST WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE.(Wire/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 5, 2004
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Byline: Jane Hoback, Rocky Mountain News
They were known as the killing fields, a landscape of death that came to define the world's view of Cambodia in the late 20th century.
The Khmer Rouge, led by a notorious communist named Pol Pot, slaughtered, starved or worked to death an estimated 1.7 million to 3 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 in a fanatical utopian quest.
The leaders sacrificed their fellow Cambodians in a plan to create a perfect agrarian society by abolishing city life; dismantling families; and banning religion, education, Western medicine, private ownership and communication with the outside world.
The Khmer Rouge ...