Cambodia celebrates 40th anniversary of Khmer Rouge ouster


Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (left), and National Assembly President Heng Samrin wave to the crowd amassed at the Olympic National Stadium today to celebrate Victory Day, which marks the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime on January 7, 1979, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. – EPA pic, January 7, 2019.

TENS of thousands of Cambodians packed a stadium in Phnom Penh today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the expulsion of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime – a day strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country’s “second birthday”.

The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, installed a reign of terror in 1975 that left two million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labour, torture and mass executions.


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