Pol Pot and the Killing Fields

Many remember the movie 'The Killing Fields', but few are aware of the history behind Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Simplified history often equates his rise as merely a byproduct of the Vietnam War, but this is untrue. We look at the decades long lead up to the Khmer Rouge, from Pol Pots Marxist awakening at the University of Paris, to the various attempts at seizing power before the Vietnam War.

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