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A regime in this country wore black uniforms and red-and-white checkerboard scarves called (10[1])krama. (-5[2])In (10[1])an interview with journalist (10[1]-5[1])Nate Thayer, this country's (10[1])former leader denied (10[1])having “Comrade (-5[1])Ya” (10[2])tortured and killed at a facility (-5[1])named for poison (10[1])trees. The Santebal, this country's secret (10[2])police force, disappeared (-5[1])many (10[1])of its “New People” (10[1]-5[1])from (10[1])urban centers. (10[6]-5[1])A (10[2])dictator (10[1])of this (10[1])country known as (10[1])“Brother (-5[1])Number (10[1])One” (10[7]-5[1])established (10[8])the (10[3])“Year (10[1])Zero” (10[2])ideology, (10[12])which (10[1])targeted (10[1])people (10[1])for wearing glasses. (10[16]-5[2])From (10[1])1975 (10[4]-5[2])to 1979, (10[1]-5[1])more than a million citizens of this (10[1])country were murdered (10[1]-5[1])in its (10[1])“Killing Fields.” (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, (10[4])name this country once ruled by Pol (10[1])Pot’s Khmer Rouge. ■END■ (10[9]0[1])

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