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Wat Khnar Korkoh ruins remind Takeo of Khmer Rouge’s assault on religion

Publication date 27 February 2023 | 21:55 | ICT

Like so many other parts of the Kingdom, the Khnar Korkoh pagoda bears the scars of the terrible years of the so-called Democratic Kampuchea, when Cambodia fell under the tyrannical rule of Pol Pot’s radical Marxist Khmer Rouge regime.

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