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In 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime came to an end when Vietnam oc-
cupied Cambodia. To show the brutality of the earlier regime, the
Vietnamese dug up the rice paddies known as the "killing fields," ex-
humed the bodies, and put them on display. The bones and skulls of all
the thousands killed by the Khmer Rouge are now on display in a mu-
seum in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Communism, which found its "scientific" foundation in a book by
Charles Darwin, took shape from the nonsense of Marx and Engels, be-
came a world power through the brutality of Lenin and Stalin, reached
its pinnacle of madness under Mao, and showed its real face to the
world in the savagery practiced in Cambodia.

North Korea and Vietnam

In Asia, Communist brutality was not limited to China and
Cambodia. The regime of North Korea also inflicted merciless terror on
its own people. An estimated 1.5 million were killed under the dictator-
ship of Kim Il-sung. Hundreds of thousands were subjected to torture in
North Korea's terrible prisons. The Black Book of Communism describes
how prisoners were treated like animals:
In her penitentiary, some 6,000 people, including 2,000 women, worked as
slave labor from 5:30 a.m. until midnight, manufacturing slippers, hol-
sters, bags, belts, detonators, and artificial flowers. A Any detainees who be-
came pregnant were brutally forced to have abortions. Any child who was
born in the prison was smothered or had its throat cut. 107
A camp guard who fled to Seoul describes the torture and execu-
tions inflicted in the concentration camps of North Korea:
Who carried out the executions? The choice was left to the discretion of se-
curity agents, who shot when they did not want to dirty their hands or
killed slowly if they wished to prolong the agony. I learned that people
could be beaten to death, stoned, or killed with blows from a shovel.
Sometimes the executions were turned into a game, with prisoners being
shot at as though they were targets in a shooting competition at a fair-
ground. Sometimes prisoners were forced to fight each other to the death
and tear each other up with their bare hands . . . With my own eyes, I saw