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“There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.”

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Pol Pot, a Cambodian political leader, was born on May 19, 1925, in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, and died on April 15, 1998. He led the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, implementing extreme communist policies that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians. more

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