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“For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.”

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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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