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Pol Pot's Abandoned Airport

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Dec 23, 2011
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The vast 'secret' military airfield at Kampong Chhnang in central Cambodia, built with slave labor by Pol Pot's forces, may become a key element in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, should the chiefs of the late tyrant's air force and navy be tried -- over the opposition to such a process by Cambodia's strongman, Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Such problems seem far fr…

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