WORLD BRIEFING / CAMBODIA
About 2,000 Cambodians marked the annual “Day of Anger” to remember Khmer Rouge victims, reenacting torture and distributing new textbooks about an era still largely ignored by schools and quickly fading from memory.
A small number of the radical communist regime’s leaders are on trial for war crimes, but popular interest in the reign is limited, especially among the millions of Cambodians born after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and others scrambling to make a living in one of Asia’s poorest countries.
The Khmer Rouge’s rule in the mid-1970s led to the deaths of about 1.7 million people.
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