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Kampuchea

name taken by Cambodia after the communist takeover in 1975, representing a local pronunciation of the name that came into English as Cambodia.

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Pol Pot murderers of Kampuchea and pseudodemocratic groups in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tioulang's childhood was drenched in death-and unlike the twenty-first-century plagues, where the murderers were faceless ambiguities, death in Kampuchea came person to person via bullets and backings and deliberate starvation.

Reporters from India and Japan and England and, for all I know, Bali, the Maldive Islands, and Kampuchea.