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They used to smash banks for Pol Pot. Now they're founding them

Many ex-Khmer Rouge have fully embraced capitalism with as much vigour as they did when destroying class distinction.

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Published Fri, Mar 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Malai, Cambodia

    FOR years, Tep Khunnal was the devoted personal secretary of Pol Pot, staying loyal to the charismatic ultracommunist leader even as the Khmer Rouge movement collapsed around them in the late 1990s.

    Forced to reinvent himself after Pol Pot's death, he fled to this outpost on the Thai border and began following a different sort of guru: the Austrian-American management theorist and business consultant Peter Drucker.

    Cambodia

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