The twentieth century was a difficult time in South-east Asia - there was the Japanese war against China and many other countries; the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and the terrible civil war in Vietnam. Then, towards the end of the century, the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia had millions of his own people killed in just three years. (725 words)
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