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Khmer Rouge
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History of Khmer Rouge
- killed nearly two million Cambodians
- took root in Cambodia's Northeastern jungles
- trip to China in 1975 two Khmer Rouge members bragged they would be the first nation to create a completely communist society
- won power through a guerilla war
- the period ended witht he invasion of Cambodia by neighbor and their alliance Vietnam
- believed parents were tainted with capitalism so children were taken away from their parents and taught communisn
The Leader Pol Pot
- wanted to form a communist peasant farming society, esculted into about 25 percent of the country's population dying
- was the one to form Khmer Rouge
- waged a guerilla war against Sihanouk's government
- the one who changed Cambodia into a huge slave nation
- retired but stayed head of the Khmer Rouge
- a peace agreement was signed by Pol Pot in 1996
- became a leader of the French Communist Party which gave guaidance to the ideas of the Khmer Rouge
- was responsible for an untold num,ber of deaths
Khmer Rouge's effect on Cambodia
- while in rule many people died
- entire cities were emptied
- became a nation of slaves
- no other revolution that completely destroyed all the population
- Cambodians fled Cambodia and became refugees
- effects of starvation, breaks down the loyalties of groups, even families
- renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea
- forced people from the cities to the country to take up work
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