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Back to the killing fields with US reporter

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On this day in 1975, a guerilla movement that came to be known as the Khmer Rouge swept into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. It was the start of a brutal four-year rule, during which one-quarter of the population died. Journalist Dan Southerland covered the war in Indochina for the American newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. He remains haunted by what he witnessed. Southerland returns to Cambodia from time to time, part of his attempts to make sense of the devastation. We join him on a journey across the Mekong River, near the scene of a bloody massacre, 40 years earlier. 

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