CAMBODIA-KHMER ROUGE-FRENCH EMBASSY

A doctor assisted by westerners tries to save the life of an injured man under the most primitive conditions inside the French Embassy in Phnom Penh late April 1975. On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops led by Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, launched an offensive to oust Lon Nol's Khmer Republic. The Lon Nol governement in Phom Penh surrendered 17 April 1975 after 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war. Immediately after its victory, the PCK ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns. Many of the foreigners and some Cambodians, who couldn't or wouldn't flee Cambodia, took refuge at the embassy from which they were taken by truck to Thailand two weeks later. AFP PHOTO (Photo by SJOBERG / SCANPIX SWEDEN / AFP) (Photo by SJOBERG/SCANPIX SWEDEN/AFP via Getty Images)
A doctor assisted by westerners tries to save the life of an injured man under the most primitive conditions inside the French Embassy in Phnom Penh late April 1975. On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops led by Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, launched an offensive to oust Lon Nol's Khmer Republic. The Lon Nol governement in Phom Penh surrendered 17 April 1975 after 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war. Immediately after its victory, the PCK ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns. Many of the foreigners and some Cambodians, who couldn't or wouldn't flee Cambodia, took refuge at the embassy from which they were taken by truck to Thailand two weeks later. AFP PHOTO (Photo by SJOBERG / SCANPIX SWEDEN / AFP) (Photo by SJOBERG/SCANPIX SWEDEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Credit:
SJOBERG / Staff
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457589790
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AFP
Date created:
April 25, 1975
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SCANPIX SWEDEN
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