The first stage of genocide in Cambodian occurs when the communist party, the Khmer rouge, starts classifying the different ethnics among the country. The victims of classification where distinguished and then classified in various ways depending on their, nationality, religion or political beliefs and so on. Classification would principally separate the Cambodian citizens from the communists. The citizens that would not reach the Khmer Rouge’s requirements were targets to get rid of straightaway. Citizens such as Cambodians with a Vietnamese, Chinese or Thai background or Cambodian that were Christian, were persecuted and slaughtered since they were seen as a threat for the communists. Women and men would be divide and children were separated
