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Article: Return to the killing fields: the Khmer Rouge wants to rule Cambodia again, and its leaders are using the sword to get their way.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 5, 1988
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The Khmer Rouge wants to rule Cambodia again, and its leaders are using the sword to get their way
The stern Khmer Rouge soldiers who roused Chea Chout from bed said they wanted him for two days of "political education." That was last April, and Chea Chout has not seen his home in Cambodia's Kompong Chhnan province since. Two days became months. His lessons were lugging mortar ammunition to Khmer Rouge camps just inside Thailand on the Cambodian border. Last month Chout, 55, escaped to a camp run by a non-Communist resistance faction, the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF). But like millions of Cambodians, he fears he has not seen the last of ...