Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims 3. The New World Order After we toppled Lon Nol, the society was very complicated. There was a crisis because the people were in disorder. The war corrupted many people and the people became bad. So we needed to ...
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aLed by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge emptied cities, abolished money and religion and wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population through starvation, overwork and execution in a bid to create an agrarian utopia. 由“兄弟第一”政客罐带领, 1998年...
Kissinger played a key role in the U.S. carpet-bombing Cambodia during the Vietnam War, which killed thousands of civilians and helped enable the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Yet he also shared aNobel Peace Prize in 1973for his involvement in talks aimed at ending the Vietnam...
Ravi first evangelized U. S. soldiers and Viet Cong prisoners in Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Then, he packed his bags and traveled the globe. In August, 1984, he founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) in Toronto, with his goal to be a “classical evangelist ...
Kaing Guek Eav, 77. Known as Duc, he was the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison. Sept. 2. Diana Rigg, 82. A commanding British actress whose career stretched from...
read more The Contenders Pol Pot As leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Pol Pot orchestrated the Cambodian genocide, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people. His brutal policies of social engineering have left a tragic legacy of trauma and loss. John Wilkes Booth Booth'...
Dinh Q. Lê was born in 1968 in Ha-Tien, Vietnam, and remained in the country after the war ended, even as the Khmer Rouge regime led attacks in the area near where his family lived. Amid all the violence, his family departed Vietnam, ending up first in a Thai refugee camp, then...
was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her efforts to promote world disarmament.10Their son, the communist political writer and columnist Jan Myrdal, spurned his parents' liberal politics and was a Maoist sympathizer and apologist for genocidal Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot. He ...