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Dance | the Spirit of Cambodia | Arts & Culture (583 words) |
 | Hou Yuon and his brother Hu Nim played pivotal roles in the communist movement in Cambodia: along with Khieu Samphan they were the most popular figures on the left through the sixties and early seventies. |
| Hou Yuon was one of the first to die when the revolution began to devour itself: his moderate views were sharply at odds with the ultra-radical, collectivist ideology of the ruling group. |
| For Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot, the deaths of Hou Yuon, Hu Nim and the thousands of others who were executed in torture chambers and execution grounds, were not a contradiction but rather a proof of their own idealism and ideological purity. |
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