The Khmer Rouge In Cambodia

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The Khmer Rouge, a communist party, was created in 1968 with the goal of putting Cambodia back into the stone ages. Around the time of April 1975 the CPK, or Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia and after a just a couple of days began their work. The Khmer Rouge were ruthless and killed no matter the age, they also forced people out of their homes, and tortured people in death camps. After just a few days after taking Cambodia, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge started marching civilians out of the cities and into the countryside. The Khmers Rouge forced thousands of people to take up agricultural work, while simultaneously killing thousands more while marching them out of the cities. Cambodia’s cities weren't the only thing lost when the Khmer Rouge took over, along with them Pol Pol abolished money, banned schools and learning facilities, and closed shops. …show more content…
A Tuol Sleng guard was put on trial and stated “We were taught how to torture the prisoners and to avoid the prisoners dying, otherwise the confession would be broken and we would be punished” if a prisoner were to scream while being tortured they would be killed. Adults were not the only ones killed in these camps though, when a child was brought into the camp they would be separated from the adults. Once the kids were separated, they would then be executed.
After 4 years of mass genocide and the almost complete destruction of Cambodian life, the Vietnamese finally overthrew Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. In the end the Khmer Rouge murdered almost 25% of their population, and coming up with a total of around 2,400,000

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