Hill of the Poison Tree (26 images)

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On April 17, 1975, thousands of Phnom Penh residents celebrated in the streets as victorious Khmer Rouge troops entered the capitol. But their joy was short-lived: every resident was ordered out of the city to live in the country-side as "peasants."

The Khmer Rouge declared April 17th as Year Zero and embarked on a murderous quest to transform Cambodia into a new rural society of forced labour and "right" living.

Instead of creating a just, new...
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