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Article: Twenty five years after Khmer Rouge, Cambodia remains divided over war-crimes tribunal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 15, 2000
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia _ When the guerrillas finally overran the capital, it was astonishing how young they looked. So many were just kids armed with AK-47s, bandoliers of ammunition and a half-dozen Chinese grenades pinned to their black pajamas. They were the sons of farmers and butchers and miners. They were illiterate peasants and woodcutters and fishermen, dark-skinned men unfamiliar with cities, and most arrived in Phnom Penh barefoot or wearing sandals cut from old tires.
On the steamy morning of April 17, 1975, communist Khmer Rouge troops swept into Phnom Penh after five years of civil war against the government of prime minister Lon Nol. Thirteen days ...