"On 17 April 1975 the capital finally fell to the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot — ruling with a tiny clique of comrades such as Nuon Chea (Pol Pot's right hand man, regime's chief ideologist),Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan under the anonymous cover of ‘The Organization’ — declared that 1975 was “Year Zero’ and started to purge Cambodia of all non-communist influences. All foreigners were expelled, newspapers were outlawed and large numbers of people with the merest taint of association with the old regime — including all religious leaders, whether Buddhist, Christian or Muslim — were executed. There were even reports of people being killed because they wore spectacles — a sign of ‘bourgeois intellectuals’."
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Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), pp. 326-327
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