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Their chief, Pol Pot, used his newfound energy to provoke one of many darkest periods of the 20th century. Agriculture was collectivized, resulting in widespread famine, while residents of cities were marched into the countryside and forced to work underneath slavelike circumstances. Militants targeted anybody Art suspected of connections to capitalism or overseas cultures or of deviating from the Khmer Rouge’s extreme interpretation of Marxism. The party’s rule ended in 1979, when invading Vietnamese forces put in a proxy authorities that restored a level of normality. But the Khmer Rouge continued to fight, launching a cussed insurgency.…
