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- ↑ Chandler, David P. (2 February 2018). Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot. Routledge. ISBN 9780429981616 . Retrieved 19 April 2019– via Google Books.
- ↑ Short, Philip. (2013). Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-4447-8030-7.
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