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3 days ago · A memorial to the civil war in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with a rusted wreck of a Soviet-built T-54 main battle tank used during the war. Large numbers of T-54s were used by Cambodia during and after the bloody fighting of the conflict between 1970 and 1975, with many such wrecks (in various states of abandonment and disrepair) scattered all over ...
1 day ago · Demographer Patrick Heuveline estimated that between 1.17 million and 3.42 million Cambodians died unnatural deaths between 1970 and 1979, with between 150,000 and 300,000 of those deaths occurring during the civil war. Heuveline's central estimate is 2.52 million excess deaths, of which 1.4 million were the direct result of violence.
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May 3, 2024 · The Cambodian Civil War After five years of fighting, communist forces entered the capital. With the fall of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh imminent, the U.S. Embassy was evacuated on April 3, 1975.
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May 15, 2024 · Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot (born May 19, 1925, Kompong Thom province, Cambodia—died April 15, 1998, near Anlong Veng, along the Cambodia-Thailand border) was a Khmer political leader who led the Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia that imposed severe hardships on the Cambodian people. His radical communist government forced the ...
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3 days ago · Demographer Patrick Heuveline estimated that between 1.17 million and 3.42 million Cambodians died unnatural deaths between 1970 and 1979, with between 150,000 and 300,000 of those deaths occurring during the civil war. Heuveline's central estimate is 2.52 million excess deaths, of which 1.4 million were the direct result of violence.
May 22, 2024 · At least 1.5 million Cambodians died from execution, forced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off 20 years of civil war.
6 days ago · “The Civil War dwarfs all other American conflicts by an amazing margin,” said Bernath. “More [people] died in the Civil War than in all other American conflicts combined from American Revolution up to yesterday. And that’s just a raw number.” Bernath estimated that 750,000 soldiers on both sides died.
