Cambodia Genocide Essay

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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. One of the biggest genocide is the Cambodian genocide. The Khmer Rouge was a group of followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. This time of period wasn't long but was an impact on our history. The Khmer Rouge had a goal and that was to. Eliminate the entire social order in the country. A task relevantly impossible. Cambodia Genocide was a serious impact on a lot of lives.

Khmer Rouge was a Communist Party of Kampuchea. Khmer Kror-Horm was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol pot. Also the founder was Son Ngoc Minh. On April 17, 1975 an entire nation vanished. On that day, Khmer Rouge troops marched into the capital city of Phnom Penh proclaiming the year zero. Within less than twenty-four hours, the army began evacuating the city of more than two and a half million lives. At this point, the troops began an exercise in social control on a scale rarely seen. Under the direction of the Angkar, the Higher Committee. The government moved people out of the cities into the countryside for a massive
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They bombed the countryside. Also created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until January 1979. All foreigners were banned from Cambodia. They were given a chance to leave. However, if any sign of resistance was shown by the people, they were killed. If you were caught traveling without permission by the khmer rouge guards in some cases you were sentenced prison time or at worst death. Many people were taken from their homes by the Khmer Rouge troops and sent to different areas to work for as long as Pol Pot saw fit. Many of the civilians were also killed in the process. The Khmer Rouge was also known for its prison camps which were very similar to a Nazi concentration

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