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3 unusual facts about Joseph Chhmar Salas


Joseph Chhmar Salas

They founded a Communist state with the name of Democratic Kampuchea, where any religion was forbidden and destruction of religious sites was contemplated.

Joseph Chhmar Salas (in Khmer យ៉ូសែប ធ្មារ សាឡាស់; 21 October 1937 – September 1977) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh in Cambodia between 1975 and 1977.

Salas became the head, but he was sent by the Khmer Rouge Regime to a rice field in Kompong Thom.



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