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Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Holocaust Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Holocaust The Jewish Holocaust was conducted under the hatred of a people: the Cambodian Holocaust
every seven people in a country no larger than the state of Missouri. In the 20 years since the Khmer Rouge genocide, Cambodians have struggled to put their once
the years of Sihanouk's rule. As the civil war continued for about 5 years since 1970, the Khmer Rouge slowly obtained the Cambodian countryside under their control.
precedence within the atrocities of its context, but cannot be unique in comparison to other cases because they are also unique genocides in their own right. The
Authority in Cambodia, launched in 1992, helped end hostilities between the government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas in one of the bloodiest civil wars in modern times.
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Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Holocaust
The Jewish Holocaust was conducted under the hatred of a people: the Cambodian Holocaust was conducted while attempting to force an ideology on a nation. Between 1975 and 1979 an estimated 850,000 to two million people died or were murdered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communists). The numbers are the lives lost are staggering. What is even more astonishing- and horrific at the same time- is the cause of the inhumanity. The Khmer Rouge had a vision how Cambodia should be ruled and spilled their own countrymen’s blood trying to achieve their vision.
In its infancy the Khmer Rouge was a communist party that using Vietnamese communism as its guide. However, it became more Stalinist and anti-intellectual once many of its members returned from study in France. The Khmers believed that the root of evil was capitalism and the cities and urban areas facilitated capitalism. Many in the Khmer referred to Phnom Pehn as “the great prostitute of the Mekong.” Peasants were considered the true working class and that urban dwellers had made a conscious decision to live in cities, willfully aligning themselves with capitalism and making them the enemy.
Eventual Khmer leader, Saloth Sar (late known as Pol Pot), studied in France and was heavily influenced by the French Communist Party. Returning to Cambodia, Pol Pot was elevated to the head of the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot used propaganda against the perceived pro-American Cambodian government to raise support of the Cambodian people and the interested Vietnamese. Although they Khmer Rouge used Vietnamese communism as a schematic for crafting the future of Cambodia, privately they resented the Vietnamese for what they perceived as arrogant attitudes towards the Cambodians. While a Vietnamese insurgency and the Cambodian government battled, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge lurked in the shadows building an army- around 135,000 including regulars and...
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