Cambodia+(1975-1979)

=**__Genocide of Cambodia__**=

Cambodia is a country located south east of Asia. It is less than half the size of California. The capital of Cambodia is Phnom Penh. For more than 100 years Cambodia was under the control of the French but in 1953 that all changed. The present day population of Cambodia is over 7 million and there almost all Buddhist's.
 * __Cambodia__**

__The Evacuation of Urban Centers__  At first the Khmer Rouge forced people to leave their homes with whatever they could carry. People were not too mad about this but then the unknowing victims were herded into trains were taken away from their homes. Next the people were told about new rules that were being put upon Cambodia such as no money, religion or property. Khmer Rouge officers told the victims they no longer had any rights and that the two thousand year History of Cambodia had come to an end, strongly resembling the holocaust.

**__Victims__**
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At short notice, everyone was forced from their homes. Young, Old, Women, Injured. None were spared from the sudden march. Those who did not obey, or were too slow, were eliminated. All civil rights were abolished and families were separated. They were placed in labor camps, where they would work in farms. Factories, Hospitals, and businesses of all kinds were shut down. People of intellectual jobs were killed. Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, etc. Religion was banned, and Buddhism was a widely practiced religion in Cambodia. Music and radios were banned, Religion was banned also. Children were taken from their parents and placed in forced labor camps and had no say in it. Some of people who were deported from the cities across the land of Cambodia died on the way to the places of genocide. Many died simply of starvation and by sicknesses that had been sweeping through the country. Once at the camps, the people died of many reasons, diseases and starvation, executions and gassing.

__Prosecutors__
Under Pol Pot's leadership, only days after [|Khmer Rouge] overthrew the government, the government began an extremist plan to reconstruct Cambodia. During this time Cambodia was under it's Khmer name, Kampuchea. The basis for the reconstruction was to model the government after Communist China. They believed that the entire country should work as laborers in a federation of collective farms. Those who opposed, mainly intellectuals and the educated, were eliminated. They also eliminated all of the old aspects of un-communist Cambodia. They were starting with a "clean" slate. The Khmer Rouge interrogated their own members, imprisoning and executing them on the littlest suspicion of sabotage. Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of over two million of his own people.

__Leader of the Khmer Rouge__
The person in charge of the Khmer Rouge and of the entire genocide was a man named Pol Pot. He was a ruthless man who pried upon the weak. His birthdate is still unknown at this day. His hatred for many of the people of Cambodia led to the killing of over 1.7 million people (21% of the total population).



**__[|Cambodian Genocide Information] The Camps of the Cambodian genocide__**
The main goal of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was to build socialism in the fields or in other words, to focus Cambodia of an agricultural success. Instead of the camps in the middle of nowhere as the Nazis had done in WW2, they simple took old abandoned schools and warehouses and transformed them into factories of death and misery. They drowned them, shot them, burned them, and performed many different types of torture.

__The Assistance Given To The victims__

In general, not mush help was given to the victims in the Cambodian genocide. The United Nation did nothing to stop them and even after the Khmer Rouge as out they even tried to get the Khmer Rouge Back in power.

__The Genocide ends.__ Vietnam eventually led to the fall of Communist Cambodia, after Pol Pot showed aggression towards Vietnam. Vietnam soon decided they were not going to take this cruel punishment anymore. Vietnam decided an invasion of Cambodia was going to happen no matter what. So after failed attempts at peace between the two countries, Vietnam went on the attack. They sent one hundred thousand troops to the capitol of the country and the Khmer Rouge were now beaten and the Cambodian genocide was ended.

**__After The Genocide__**
Pol Pot policies in his government rule left Cambodia in an economic troubles and killed any one with experience to help in the rebuilding of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge was chased out of power by the Vietnamese army into the jungles, and the Vietnamese made a puppet government with deserter Khmer Rouge in charge. After the Khmer Rouge was run out, they were given food aid from the United States. The Khmer did not quit. They attempted to regain control of Cambodia for years. The Khmer Rouge was even backed by the UK and the United States. Soon, Vietnam retreated from Cambodia. Then, the government was put under a temporary coalition where it slowly restored its economy. In 1995 many mass graves were starting to be uncovered revealing the genocide's horrors and just how many were killed. The bones and skulls were to be used to show memorial.