The Khmer Rouge troops capture Phnom Penh and the government forces surrender five days after the last helicopter taking American citizens and X Cambodia XYZ left the country.
The Khmer Rouge led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 during which The regime tried to purify the nation of suspected corruption and counter-revolutionary tendencies in order to bring about its utopian communist vision for Cambodia. But their extreme ideology and tactics targeted most segments of Cambodian society for destruction. It is estimated that the regime was responsible for the deaths of two million of the country’s seven million people. More
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