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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1975
Page
10
The Khmer Rouge move to remake Cambodia as a peasant society with limited foreign aid. Phnom Penh empties as two million evacuees flee and hospitals overflow with wounded. Officials warn against mass executions though arrests of old regime leaders occur as the capital faces isolation and upheaval.
A reporter recounts the rapid collapse of Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge forces move in. Civilians flee as soldiers switch to civilian clothes and aid from the city fades. The journalist and colleagues are captured near Preah Keth Mea Lea hospital, spared only by Dith Pran who negotiates their release, while authorities begin evacuating residents and explaining a need to reorganize the city.
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