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"Only several thousand Kampucheans might have died due to some mistakes in implementing our policy of providing an affluent life for the people."
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Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 191

 

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