Comparing The Killing Fields Of Cambodia And The Holocaust

A genocide is a horrific killing of a larger number of people. Two instances of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of Cambodia’s population. He wanted to destroy any intelligence his people had. So that meant torturing and killing anyone of high education. In the article, “How I survived Cambodia's Killing Fields…”, “ teachers, doctors, musicians, artists and intellectuals,” were not safe from and targeted by the attacks. In 1993, the Holocaust began and it affected anyone who was Jewish or had any Jewish descent. The leader of this group was Adolf wanted a pure line of life to be lived in Germany. So this meant anyone who wasn't “Aryan” was to be killed, because they were messing up their chances …show more content…
Phnom Penh, is the general area where the actual killing fields took place, even though it was spreaded out through Cambodia (The Killing Fields). Pol Pot was born in 1925 in a small village and after he was old enough he went to school and as he progressed he got a scholarship to go to a school in Paris (History). This is an amazing facts since he slaughtered millions of people for being educated since he was well educated himself. His reign only lasted for four years and he did so much damage in the little time he had. Targets of these killings were Christians, Buddhist, and muslims citizens of Cambodia (4). The Khmer Rouge came into families homes and took whoever they wanted or was said to have possessed what they wanted. After this they were transported to fields to work and if they did not comply they were taken, tortured, killed, all of the