“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”

—  Pol Pot

On the Democratic Kampuchea period, as reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in David P. Chandler, Brother Number One (1999)
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former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea 1925–1998

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