Article: FAILED UTOPIA: CAMBODIA'S PAST WRITTEN IN VIOLENCE.(Wire/National/International)

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 ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!