The Legacy of Pol Pot

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Archives of the Cambodian Genocide Program

One of the purveyors of massacre was the Khmer Rouge secret police, which turned this Phnom Penh high school into its headquarters, renamed S-21. Thousands were tortured and executed in former classrooms.

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