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Bearing witness to Cambodia's horror, 20 years after Pol Pot's death

  • Written by George Chigas, Senior Lecturer in Cambodian Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
How do survivors find healing? Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, walks past a portrait of Nuon Chea, a former Khmer Rouge leader.AP Photo/Heng Sinith

Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73. Born Saloth Sar, Pol Pot was...

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