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Pot Men's Tee Black on Light Blue Email Request to griotapparel@gmail.com - - - About This Shirt: Up until the early 1950s, large parts of Southeast Asia existed under French colonial control, including modern day Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. During this period, privileged Khmer youth studying in Paris organized what they called their own communist movement. The group's political values expressed little connection to the practical conditions in their homeland and were in disharmony with much of the writings of Marx and Engels which ostensibly underpin all forms of communism and socialism. Cambodia was the last nation of French Indochina to successfully declare its independence in 1953. By the 1960s, the group of privileged Parisian students had returned to Cambodia and became a political force known as the Khmer Rouge. By 1975, they had won a three-way civil war which erupted in 1970 and renamed the nation Democratic Kampuchea. Under Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge began implementing policies of de-urbanization and the process of 'cleansing' the population of educated citizens. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are considered responsible for 1.5 million of an estimated 2.1 million deaths in Cambodia between 1970 and 1979. By 1979, all of Cambodia's previous urban population were living as internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the countryside and one third of Cambodia's population had perished by starvation, execution, or forced labor including all of its educated inhabitants. Design by Tritonic LLC (Newark, NJ) Research
by More on Pol Pot: Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/daily/polpot/1.html BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/78988.stm
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