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Article: Cambodian Catholics begin rebuilding church.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 14, 1993
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- "After the Elmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh in 1975, one of the tasks they undertook in the name of reconstruction," said Kri Beng Hong, vice mayor of Phnom Penh, sitting in his municipal office, "was to invite back 400 Khmer intellectuals and students living in France to help |rebuild' the country.
"The first assignment given these returning Khmers was to demolish the Phnom Penh Cathedral. Then they bad to transport the nibble to a river 12 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, to build a dike.
"After they completed their work, many were thanked by the Khmer Rouge for their efforts by being taken over to where the Phnom Penh TV ...