The Pol Pot in Cambodia Genocide was a major genocide which occurred from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot’s army was named Khmer Rouge. This army consisted of teenage guerilla fighters, refraining guerilla’s s because they fought guerilla style. The goal of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge was to turn the country of Cambodia into a communist country. People were moved from their cities and forced to go to labor camps. At these labor camps, the people were starved, tortured and killed. All eight stages of genocide occurred in this genocide. The eight stages of genocide are Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination, and Denial. The army Khmer Rouge was extremely brutal and showed no remorse. Pol Pot and
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The killing fields were cruel and put fear in the Cambodians. The majority of people who died at the killing fields, died of starvation and overwork. About 1.7 Million people were killed viciously. Pol Pot forced the people of Cambodia to the countryside of Cambodia to work on rice farms. He worked the Cambodians as if they were animals. The people were forced to do back breaking labor and grow rice, but they received nothing in return. Pol Pot gave the people 180 grams of rice every two days and little to no water. Imagine having to live off of 6 ounces of rice every two days. The people were suffering and weak from the starvation and dehydration. The killing fields were Pol Pot and his army’s sanctuary for torturing, killing and questioning people; Also they killed, tortured and questioned people who were educated or went against Pol Pot. The people were murdered in thousands brutally, then after Khmer Rouge would bury the bodies in mass graves. The land of Cambodia was once known as beautiful but Pol Pot turned the land into haunted, bloody memories. This genocide was unfair and unfortunate against the people of Cambodia. These killing fields was the Cambodians living …show more content…
This is when Pol Pot was starting to force communism on the people of Cambodia, he had a vision of his plan and was determined to act it out. He believed in the ways of communism, so he decided to seize Cambodia and turn it into a communist country using his movement. Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge killed so many people because they went against him or got in the way of his communist movement. By Cambodia being a communist country Pol Pot would’ve had complete control; that idea excited him and made him, even more, power hungry and vicious. This idea is why Pol Pot did the things he did, such as torture and kill innocent Cambodians. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of the communist country China inspired Pol Pot and gave him the idea of his communist movement. There was major polarization going on in this genocide because Pol Pot wanted to silence all the voices in which might harm his power. Pol Pot also believed that Cambodia was supposed to be a poor farming country, so the cities enraged him. This is when the “Death Marches” occurred. He moved all the residents of the cities out to the
The killing fields were cruel and put fear in the Cambodians. The majority of people who died at the killing fields, died of starvation and overwork. About 1.7 Million people were killed viciously. Pol Pot forced the people of Cambodia to the countryside of Cambodia to work on rice farms. He worked the Cambodians as if they were animals. The people were forced to do back breaking labor and grow rice, but they received nothing in return. Pol Pot gave the people 180 grams of rice every two days and little to no water. Imagine having to live off of 6 ounces of rice every two days. The people were suffering and weak from the starvation and dehydration. The killing fields were Pol Pot and his army’s sanctuary for torturing, killing and questioning people; Also they killed, tortured and questioned people who were educated or went against Pol Pot. The people were murdered in thousands brutally, then after Khmer Rouge would bury the bodies in mass graves. The land of Cambodia was once known as beautiful but Pol Pot turned the land into haunted, bloody memories. This genocide was unfair and unfortunate against the people of Cambodia. These killing fields was the Cambodians living …show more content…
This is when Pol Pot was starting to force communism on the people of Cambodia, he had a vision of his plan and was determined to act it out. He believed in the ways of communism, so he decided to seize Cambodia and turn it into a communist country using his movement. Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge killed so many people because they went against him or got in the way of his communist movement. By Cambodia being a communist country Pol Pot would’ve had complete control; that idea excited him and made him, even more, power hungry and vicious. This idea is why Pol Pot did the things he did, such as torture and kill innocent Cambodians. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of the communist country China inspired Pol Pot and gave him the idea of his communist movement. There was major polarization going on in this genocide because Pol Pot wanted to silence all the voices in which might harm his power. Pol Pot also believed that Cambodia was supposed to be a poor farming country, so the cities enraged him. This is when the “Death Marches” occurred. He moved all the residents of the cities out to the