CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE:

The Cambodian Genocide occurred from 1975 to 1979. In 1975, Communist forces in Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot began a regime in Cambodia that lasted four years. During this regime, the government’s goal was to force the entire population to work as laborers in a huge federation of collective farms. All that opposed the government, and those that were thought to be intellectuals such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists, were systematically exterminated along with their extended families. The people of the country were forced to leave their homes while children that were too young to work and the elderly were driven from the land or killed. All political and civil rights were abolished, factories, schools, hospitals, etc, were shut down and religion was banned. All leading Buddhist monks were killed and almost all temples destroyed. Music and radio sets were also banned. It was possible for people to be shot simply for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing, or crying. One Khmer slogan ran 'To spare you is no profit; to destroy you is no loss.' The people were forced to work as unpaid laborers with small rations of food and long hours. Those that worked as slave labor soon died of malnutrition and fatigue. Aside from the extermination and oppression of Cambodians, ethnic groups such as the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai were also murdered. In this period, civilian deaths were much over 2 million.

The genocide ceased after Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia and fought the Khmer Rouge in 1978. It is said that the US and UK funded Khmer Rouge in its fight with Vietnam because of the threat of communism it posed to Cambodia. As a result, after a year of fighting, Vietnam was forced by the US and its allies to retreat its forces from Cambodia and another temporary government was established.

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