Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. One million eight hundred people were murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Seven hundred fifty thousand in the Assyrian genocide. One million in the Greek genocide. One and a half million. Thats the number of innocent people that were killed in the Cambodian Genocide before anyone even noticed. All these events have one thing in common; a leader who caused the events from murdering or convincing others to murder. Pol Pot is the reason the Cambodian Genocide happened, because he was the leader of the country at the time, he forced the Khmer Rouge to kill others, and he wanted to form a Communist peasant farming society. From 1956 to 1963, Pol Pot taught history, French literature, and geography at a private school while also plotting a revolution. In 1960 he joined and helped reorganize the communist Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP). Three years later, Pol Pot begun to rise as the Cambodian party chief and Khmer Rouge guerrilla army leader. He and the Khmer Rouge eventually took control of the country in 1975. During
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So, the state controlled everything in a person’s life. The Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh by forcing all of the residents to leave behind everything they had and march towards their countryside. They created “Year Zero,” meaning, they set the calendars back in order to change and make a new Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot did this by making money have no value, taking away private property, outlawing most reading material and religion, taking children away from their homes and forcing them to be in the military. They also had rules for sexual relations, took away most medicines, thus making the hospitals inadequate, and stripped all doctors, teachers and other professionals of their belongings and titles. This ultimately, forcing them to participate in the only thing they could do,
So, the state controlled everything in a person’s life. The Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh by forcing all of the residents to leave behind everything they had and march towards their countryside. They created “Year Zero,” meaning, they set the calendars back in order to change and make a new Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot did this by making money have no value, taking away private property, outlawing most reading material and religion, taking children away from their homes and forcing them to be in the military. They also had rules for sexual relations, took away most medicines, thus making the hospitals inadequate, and stripped all doctors, teachers and other professionals of their belongings and titles. This ultimately, forcing them to participate in the only thing they could do,