Khmer Rouge regime

April 17, 1975 – the day Phnom Penh fell – can perhaps never be fully reappropriated because of the strong sense of shame and pain that surrounds it.

There have been many references to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam as an important historical analogy for today’s Afghanistan. A better analogy is Cambodia.

The death of one of the genocidal regime’s remaining leaders has once again highlighted a dark chapter in Cambodia’s past.