The Timeless, Ubiquitous AK-47

Western Cambodia, 1981
A Khmer Rouge soldier poses with her weapon in the jungle. This radical Marxist movement killed more than 1.5 million Cambodians in the late 1970s.
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Western Cambodia, 1981
A Khmer Rouge soldier poses with her weapon in the jungle. This radical Marxist movement killed more than 1.5 million Cambodians in the late 1970s.

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