On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, Khmer Rouge troops entered Phnom Penh and took control of Cambodia. From that day on the state was renamed Democratic Kampuchea: a country where money, markets and private property were abolished. Where hospitals, colleges and universities were destroyed. Where their cities, including the capital, were completely evacuated.
Democratic Kampuchea is the most radical social experiment humanity has ever experienced, an egalitarian society of agricultural labor, communal kitchens and forced peasants wearing black clothes.
Democratic Kampuchea was a new order and a new great family that only thought of collective interests.
Democratic Kampuchea was a tragedy. A genocide that, in less than four years, took the lives of almost two million human beings.
This book, the first to be published in South America, tells the story of Pol Pot (Brother Number Zero) and his King (Norodom Sihanouk). Both have a lot to explain.