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Cambodia’s descent into madness remembered, 50 years after the Khmer Rouge

Frenchman Roland Neveu witnessed the victorious Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, heralding a savage era for Cambodians.

via South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3306867/50-years-khmer-rouge-conquered-cambodia-photographer-recalls-descent-madness

When French photojournalist Roland Neveu arrived in Phnom Penh in the summer of 1973, he had little inkling of the atrocities he would witness, or the scale of the suffering that would soon engulf the country and claim the lives of one in four Cambodians through murder, starvation or neglect.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3306867/50-years-khmer-rouge-conquered-cambodia-photographer-recalls-descent-madness

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