... electrical student originally named Saloth Sar but known to the world as Pol Pot, would have complete control over Cambodia's educational system. During the Khmer Rouge's spectacularly brutal reign, a time in which the "blood of Vietnam" spilled over Cambodia's borders to inspire frenzied revolutionary terror, formal education ended. 18 "My," a survivor of ... the Cambodia genocide, described the end of schooling in Cambodia: "The Khmer Rouge divided the kids up into age categories. The older ones were sent off to another camp. The pre-teen kids were weeders and rice planters. My sons h...

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