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    the biggest genocide is the Cambodian genocide. The Khmer Rouge was a group of followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. This time of period wasn't long but was an impact on our history. The Khmer Rouge had a goal and that was to. Eliminate the entire social order in the country. A task relevantly impossible. Cambodia Genocide was a serious impact on a lot of lives. Khmer Rouge was a Communist Party of Kampuchea. Khmer Kror-Horm was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol pot. Also the founder was Son Ngoc Minh. On April 17, 1975 an entire nation vanished. On that day, Khmer Rouge troops marched into the capital city of Phnom Penh proclaiming the year zero. Within less than twenty-four hours, the army began evacuating the city of more than two and a half million lives. At this point, the troops began an exercise in social control on a scale rarely seen. Under the direction of the Angkar, the Higher Committee. The government moved people out of the cities into the countryside for a massive…

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    The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…

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    Communist vision. For Pol Pot to succeed with his idea of restarting history, he isolated Cambodia from the rest of the world. He deported all foreigners, banned all humanitarian and economic aid, closed all the embassies, closed all media outlets, businesses, and health and educational systems, he also banned all foreign languages, the use of mail, the telephone, and money. He moved over two million people from urban to rural areas. Around twenty thousand people died on the move, those who…

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    from their homeland and they had nowhere to return home because their towns had all been destroyed. The Jewish families had all been separated and most were unable to get back together as one family (“Aftermath”). The Holocaust resulted in millions of deaths and many families separated forever. These families were separated at selections and never met up again. Those killed during the Holocaust were of all ages. Therefore, the survivors were of all ages. For the Cambodian Genocide, in just three…

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    With over two million deaths caused by brutal murders and torture and the total corruption of the Cambodian government. The Khmer Rouge Regime has become one of the dangerous and the top greatest injustice the human kind has ever faced in history. This great injustice all began with Pol Pot. Pol Pot was born in northern Cambodia in 1925. Like all great evil leaders Pol Pot (young age) was an excellent student was an intellectual person, who got scholarships to go to any school he…

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    region led to the genocide in Cambodia. CAUSES Social cause. The Cambodian Genocide, which caused by the desire of Pol Pot, has killed almost 2 million people. Cambodia, which has the history of nearly 100 years of colonialist rule, and Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge was an admirer of “Mao” (Chinese) communism, want to change it. “Pol Pot envisioned the creation of a “new” Cambodia based on the Maoist-Communist model”. Pol Pot…

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    psychosomatic blindness, which has been diagnosed among survivors living in the United States” (p. 328). It is because of these aspects that those whom were affected were never able to truly recover from those events that were inflicted upon them during the rough four years. It was during these four years that the population of Cambodia suffered erratically. “The population of Cambodia totaled around 6.5 million in 1979. The survivors emerged from the Pol Pot period nearly 3.5 million fewer than…

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    The conflict between Vietnam and the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam was a political cause of the Cambodian genocide. In 1970, the US army and South Vietnam army invaded Cambodia in order to eradicate North Vietnam troops, and “the Khmer Rouge went to civil war with the U.S. backed “Khmer Republic,” under lieutenant-general Lon Nol. Lon Nol’s government assumed a pro-Western, anti-Communist stance, and demanded the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from…

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    Pol Pot, a previous dictator of Cambodia and the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist party, is an example of this. Pol Pot attempted to completely separate his country from the outside world as a radical experiment. Starting with expelling foreigners to purify the nation, he eventually banned foreign languages, shut down television and newspaper stations, diminished mail and telephone usage, disallowed use of money, religion, education, health care and parental authority were suppressed, and…

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    history began. This began when Khmer Rouge reigned in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge was led by Pol Pot who was also known as ‘Brother Number One’. During this era, it is believed that as many as 3 million people were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia was mostly an agricultural country, however Pol Pot decided it should be a completely agricultural country. This forced people from towns and cities to move to the countryside. People were pressured to work very long hours to grow extra…

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