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40 years ago, Pol Pot began the Cambodian genocide
SINCE GENOCIDE40 YEARS
• April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge (KR) took Cambodia’s capital.
• The KR was headed by Pol Pot, a socialist revolutionary.
• His goal was to create an agrarian (farming) communist utopia.
• The KR forced everyone in cities out into farming labor camps.
• Thousands died from exhaustion, malnutrition, and disease.
• The KR also enforced “purification of the populace.”
• Religious, ethnic, and class purging killed 25% of population.
• Estimates range between 1 and 3 million people.
• It is one of the largest genocides in modern history.
• “To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”

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40 Years Since Cambodian Genocide

  • 1. NEWSFEATHER.COM [ U N B I A S E D N E W S I N 1 0 L I N E S O R L E S S ] 40 years ago, Pol Pot began the Cambodian genocide SINCE GENOCIDE40 YEARS • April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge (KR) took Cambodia’s capital. • The KR was headed by Pol Pot, a socialist revolutionary. • His goal was to create an agrarian (farming) communist utopia. • The KR forced everyone in cities out into farming labor camps. • Thousands died from exhaustion, malnutrition, and disease. • The KR also enforced “purification of the populace.” • Religious, ethnic, and class purging killed 25% of population. • Estimates range between 1 and 3 million people. • It is one of the largest genocides in modern history. • “To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”