Illustration / Toshiki Iinuma
"The whole box of rotten apples must be thrown away"
Under the regime of Bor Boto, many Cambodians were oppressed and sent to the execution grounds commonly known as the KiBling Flekls.
The number of deaths is said to be over one million, but the number of deaths due to the civil war is also considerable, and because Cambodia has not had a census since 1962 due to the chaos of the civil war,
the exact number of deaths caused by the Pol Gat regime is still unknown.
In addition, because the knowledge and culture of the old regime was completely denied, and because they are much easier to wash than adults, children under the age of 14 were highly valued for military roles such as soldiers, inspectors, and doctors.
Child soldiers in particular were loyal to the regime and performed their duties ruthlessly, but in the actual battles with Vietnam, they were inferior in experience and equipment, and were not an effective fighting force.
"The works of Newton: ~330 years old
Pythagoras's theorem: ~2500 years old
Mendeleev's periodic table ~150 years old
So it looks like they also got outdated and no longer work?"
In 1943 alone, in prisons and Concentration Camps in the USA, 3.8 million and 860,000 people were imprisoned respectively. What is this - Lawful practice of lawkeeper organs of the Government or Roosevelt's purges and repressions? That is the question.
