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{{Int|{{en}} Dal documentario ''Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia'', teletrasmesso su Associated Television (ATV), 30 ottobre 1979 (Regno Unito)}}

:''At 7:30 AM on April 17, 1975, the war on Cambodia was over. It was a unique war, for no country has ever experienced such concentrated bombing. On this, perhaps the most graceful and gentle land in all of Asia, president Nixon and mister Kissinger unleashed 100,000 tons of bombs, the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. The bombing was their personal decision. Illegally and secretly, they bombed Cambodia, a neutral country, back to the Stone Age, and I mean Stone Age in its literal sense. Shortly after dawn on April 17, the bombings stopped and there was silence. Then, out of the forest, came the victors, the Khmer Rouges, whose power had grown out of all proportion to their numbers. They entered the capital Phnom Penh, a city most of them had never seen. They marched in disciplined Indian file through the long boulevards and the still traffic. They wore black and were mostly teenagers, and people cheered them, nervously, naively. After all, the bombing, the fighting, was over at last. The horror began almost immediately. Phnom Penh, a city of 2.5 million people, was forcibly emptied within an hour of their coming, the sick and wounded being dragged from their hospital beds, dying children being carried in plastic bags, the old and crippled being dumped beside the road, and all of them being marched at gunpoint into the countryside and towards a totally new society, the likes of which we have never known. The new rulers of Cambodia called 1975 "Year Zero", the dawn of an age in which there would be no families, no sentiments, no expressions of love or grief, no medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no music, no songs, no post, no money, only work and death.''

*La [[Cambogia]]? Dov'è la Cambogia? alcuni di voi si chiederanno. Contrariamente al suo vicino, il [[Vietnam]], la Cambogia è stata praticamente sigillata per quattro anni, la sua sofferenza invisibile. In un mondo di telegiornale costante, non ci sono state notizie su ciò che è stato fatto a più di sette milioni di persone, di cui circa due milioni sono scomparse, si crede assassinate. Questo equivale a circa un terzo di tutta la popolazione. Proporzionalmente, è come se Birmingham, Manchester e Londra fossero sterminati.