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 From 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime killed or was otherwise responsible for the death of an estimated two million people – approximately 20 percent of Cambodia's population. In an attempt to create a peasant-dominated agrarian society, the entire infrastructure of the country was destroyed. Currency and private property were abolished. Hospitals, schools and temples were either demolished or converted into prisons and torture chambers. Doctors, teachers, engineers, artists, monks and people from the cities were exterminated – along with anyone else suspected of having an education.
 Today, not quite 30 years later, Cambodia has yet to recover and is still struggling to rebuild. Although a considerable amount of international aid has flowed into Cambodia, mass corruption and ineptitude have left the country severely underdeveloped, and a majority of the population remains without adequate public services. Poverty and suffering are widespread. Crime and prostitution are prevalent. AIDS rates are among the highest in Southeast Asia.
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