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“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”

Quote by Pol Pot

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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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