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Between1969and1973,theRepublicofVietnamandtheU.S.bombedandbrieflyinvaded
Cambodia.TheKhmerRougereachedPhnomPenhin1975andtookpowerunderthelead-
ership of Pol Pot, who changed the name of the country to Democratic Kampuchea, mod-
elling itself on Maoist China.
During the next four years, Cambodia experienced a period of devastation. Cities were
evacuated, people were brutally forced to work as slaves in the rice fields, and almost two
million people were massacred. Education, religion, and culture were virtually wiped out
and temples, libraries, and western-style structures were destroyed.
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