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Silent Killing Fields 50 Years On From Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Cambodia marked the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls (Credit: AFP)

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls.

On April 17, 1975, soldiers of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge rolled into the capital astride tanks, toppling the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol and starting a four-year communist government.

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