Wearing Glasses Could Get You Killed in 1975 Cambodia

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[00:00:00]In 1975, wearing glasses in Cambodia could get you killed. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge murdered 2 million people in 4 years. Their crime? Looking too smart.

[00:00:10]Soft hands meant you didn't work in fields, death sentence. Speaking French or English, death sentence. At S-21 prison, 14,000 people were tortured before being beaten to death with hammers. Bullets were too expensive.

[00:00:23]Children as young as 10 became executioners. The regime wanted them numb to killing. In 4 years, 1/4 of Cambodia's population was dead. The killing fields remain one of history's most systematic genocides.