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During the evacuation of Phnom Penh in First They Killed My Father the Khmer Rouge soldiers demonstrate propaganda, techniques, and persuasions to keep the city people in line and together.An example of propaganda and persuasion is when Loung Ung a young girl that lived in Phnom Penh with her family were affected by the Khmer Rouge takeover because they were against the Ankgar and they did not believe in it. In the beginning they had thought the Ankgar game into the town to tell the people of the city the war was over and the soldiers were acting nice. Soon enough it came to find out they came to the city to take over the city and threatened to bomb the city and tell all the people to evacuate. Soldiers forcefully telling them to move and that
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