People were forcibly evacuated from Phnom Penh on 17th April 1975.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
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PHNOM PENH, (Cambodia Herald) - Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two for his role as Pol Pot's deputy, defended Tuesday the evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975.
"The evacuation of people on April 17, 1975 was to keep them safe from America and the Vietnam War," he told the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
Nuon Chea said that people were forced to the countryside and cooperatives for their protection and that the evacuation to rural areas was to learn how to work and eat together. They were served food rice or gruel three times a day and dessert every week, he added.
He also defended the Communist Party Kampuchea as a nationalist organization that sacrificed itself for the nation and people.
Almost two million people were killed, died from disease or starved to death during the Khmer Rouge regime which ran Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979.
PHNOM PENH, (Cambodia Herald) - Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two for his role as Pol Pot's deputy, defended Tuesday the evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975.
"The evacuation of people on April 17, 1975 was to keep them safe from America and the Vietnam War," he told the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
Nuon Chea said that people were forced to the countryside and cooperatives for their protection and that the evacuation to rural areas was to learn how to work and eat together. They were served food rice or gruel three times a day and dessert every week, he added.
He also defended the Communist Party Kampuchea as a nationalist organization that sacrificed itself for the nation and people.
Almost two million people were killed, died from disease or starved to death during the Khmer Rouge regime which ran Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979.
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