Pol Pot Genocide In Cambodia

The Cambodian Genocide was a mass killing of many Cambodians. Very few events have occurred with so much terror and bitterness as the killing in Cambodia by the group Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were tortured, strangled, and starved. For the “short” time Pol Pot was leader in Cambodia he was responsible for one of the worst mass killings in the 20th century. Pol Pot was a leader in the Khmer Rouge group during the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970’s. He had seized control over the country and quickly renaming it the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. Why would Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge group carry out such a terrible act? Him and his group’s policies were guided by their belief that the citizens of Cambodia had been tainted to the outside world. Khmer Rouge persecuted educators such as doctors, lawyers, and current of former military/police. Pol Pot wanted to create a society without competition. “What is rotten must go,” said Khmer Rouge! Pol Pot and his group/army did may unbelievable acts that you couldn’t even think of. He shouldn’t have done a mass killing. There could have been other ways to …show more content…
What did the Cambodian Genocide do? People were limited to very little resources such as 180 grams of rice every two days. Cambodians were forced to move out of there homes, jobs, and families. Pol Pot had sealed off Cambodia from the outside world. Every city was forced to evacuate, two million people in Phnom Penh were forced to leave their homes on foot at gunpoint. Cambodians were treated all equally if any of them were to wear a pair of glasses they would be executed or giving their own opinion. City dwellers in Cambodia were forced into hard manual slave labor in rural areas. People were tortured, strangled, and falsely led by their leader due to propaganda. Cambodians had gone through so much trouble because of their leader Pol Pot. They were not ready for what had happened to