TOPSHOT-CAMBODIA-HOSPITAL

TOPSHOT - A Cambodian soldier cries as he holds his dead child wrapped in the traditional "krama" in the Phnom Penh military Hospital 400, on April 01, 1975. On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops led by Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, launched an offensive to oust Lon Nol's Khmer Republic. The Lon Nol governement in Phom Penh surrendered on April 17, 1975 after 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war. Immediately after its victory, the PCK ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns. Many of the foreigners and some Cambodians, who couldn't or wouldn't flee Cambodia, took refuge at the embassy from which they were taken by truck to Thailand two weeks later.AFP PHOTO (Photo by Françoise DEMULDER / AFP) (Photo by FRANCOISE DEMULDER/AFP via Getty Images)