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From the time of the communist victory in Cambodia in April 1975 to the end of that year, the situation in and surrounding Cambodia was in a state of flux. Within Cambodia, the new regime set out immediately both to destroy significant aspects of past Cambodian society and to create their version of a Cambodian Utopia — policies which would lead to widespread deaths and the massive dislocation of much of the population.
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Metzl, J.F. (1996). April 1975–December 1975. In: Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975–80. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24717-2_2
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