Democratic Kampuchea

Pol Pot grew stronger with a militia up to 700,000 people (“Cambodian Genocide Trying to End Genocide”). This growth of population was enough for Lon Nol, the prime minister of Cambodia, to grow weaker and be beaten by the Khmer Republic (“GENOCIDE-CAMBODIA”). Many people joined the Khmer Rouge because of Lon Nol’s association with the United States and this deterred them. With the Khmer Rouge’s growing followers, the Cambodian Genocide officially started on April 17th, 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital city, Phnom Penh (“Cambodian Genocide Trying to End Genocide”). The new nation’s official name was the Democratic Kampuchea, which was the communist party (Schanberg). For four years, from 1975-1979, the Khmer Rouge ruled with their torturing ways, which were very new for the Cambodians. Along with the new nation of the Democratic Kampuchea, came a new way of living for the Cambodians. At the start of the new nation, the Cambodians were forced out of their homes and were moved into one main prison, which contained farms and reservation land. They were evacuated from everywhere in the country and put into one city to avoid any form of retaliation from the educated or religious men (Schanberg). This evacuation process shows stage three of genocide, and how the Khmer Rouge dehumanized the Cambodians by forcing them to live in a certain region. Pol Pot’s goal for this new nation was to centralize the farming society and create the “Year Zero” again by having…

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Has your world ever seemed to come to a complete stop? If the answer is yes, then maybe you have gotten a taste of what Year Zero would have been like. There was nothing during this year: no food, no clothes, no families, and no money. Located in Southeast Asia, Cambodia is a country less than half the size of California. From 1975 to 1979 the people of this country were living in the most unbearable conditions. This is due to the fact that on April 17, 1975 Pol Pot commenced mass murders of the…

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