Round 5: Tossup 11

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

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