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I was deployed to Cambodia oncet. REally nice people, can’t believe what happened.

As far as percentages go, they took the hit. About 20 per cent. Pol Pot didn’t like people who wore glasses, for example. Don’t ask me what happened to them. He wanted to “start over” at Year Zero, and return to an agrarian society that would make anyone balk.

Apparently an elaborate ruse persuaded a large chunk of Phnomh Penh to go “pick up your social security card” and leave the city for their “benefits”. You don’t want to know.

I can't remember the name of the documentary, but it's out there. It was former prison workers and the few surviving prisoners of one of the "killing fields" prisons meeting, years later.

It was chilling how emotionless the former guards were. It destroyed their souls.

One of them described how they would execute prisoners. Make them kneel at the edge of the pit, and bash them in the head with a heavy metal pipe. He said he did thousands that way.