{"id":151703,"date":"2025-04-18T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/18\/killing-fields-50-years-on-how-the-khmer-rouges-legacy-still-divides-cambodia-3\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:13:06","slug":"killing-fields-50-years-on-how-the-khmer-rouges-legacy-still-divides-cambodia-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/18\/killing-fields-50-years-on-how-the-khmer-rouges-legacy-still-divides-cambodia-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing fields, 50 years on: How the Khmer Rouge&rsquo;s legacy still divides Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest chapter in Cambodia&rsquo;s history, committing one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. More than two million people were killed during their four-year rule, as they carried out mass killings and forced labour in their pursuit of radical ideologies.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest chapter in Cambodia&rsquo;s history, committing one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. More than two million people were killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-151703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}