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in 1998, the Khmer Rouge attacked a casino in the city of Koh Kong with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars?
the Vĩnh Tế Canal , built during the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam , was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti-Vietnamese propaganda?
the current governor of Malai District , Cambodia , is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and aide to Pol Pot ?
in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea , to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
after seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine , former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it?
New Zealand rower Rob Hamill has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the Khmer Rouge ?
a huge Khmer Rouge airfield (pictured) still lies in Rolea B'ier District , Cambodia ?
Cambodia ’s current First Lady, Bun Rany , was once in charge of a Khmer Rouge hospital in Krouch Chhmar District ?
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Question 1 : The leaders were mostly from middle-class families and had been educated at French ________ .
Question 2 : 1997) {Superior of ________ tried 2009}
Question 3 : On April 17, 1975 the Khmer Rouge captured ________ .
Question 4 : Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, ________ , said 1 million had been killed.
Question 5 : Khmer Rouge means "Red Khmer" in French , the administrative language of colonial-era Cambodia (the ________ are the major ethnic group in Cambodia).
Question 6 : It became more Stalinist and anti-intellectual when groups of students who had been studying in ________ returned to Cambodia.
Question 7 : The ________ -funded Yale Cambodian Genocide Project gives estimates of the total death toll between 1.2 million and 1.7 million.
Question 8 : They did not believe in western ________ but instead favoured traditional peasant medicine; many died as a result.
Question 9 : Although Pol Pot relinquished the Khmer Rouge leadership to ________ in 1985, he continued to be the driving force of Khmer Rouge insurgency, giving speeches to his followers.
Question 10 : The regime led by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was known as the ________ .