SOME 40 years ago, under the brutal despot, Pol Pot, of the Communist Khmer Rouge regime, more than a million people faced a cruel death. From 1975 to 1979, immediately after the Cambodian Civil War that preceded it five years earlier, the massacre took a more aggressive posture which is widely regarded as part of a planned and systematic mass killing. To date, at least 1,386,000 people were summarily executed according to some research-based official estimates. The number could bloat up to over two million if cases of people left to die of hunger, starvation and diseases were taken into account. The total population in Cambodia in 1975 was estimated to be some eight million people.
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