The Khmer gouge was a struggle against the French colonization. The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people - and some
estimates say up to 2.5 million perished. Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back
to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on
communal farms in the countryside.
estimates say up to 2.5 million perished. Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back
to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on
communal farms in the countryside.
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979,
spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire
country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy it in the name of a
Communist agrarian ideal. Today, more than 30 years after Vietnamese soldiers
removed the Khmer Rouge from power, the first genocide trials will start — a
bittersweet note of progress in an impoverished nation still struggling to
rehabilitate its crippled economic and human resources.
spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire
country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy it in the name of a
Communist agrarian ideal. Today, more than 30 years after Vietnamese soldiers
removed the Khmer Rouge from power, the first genocide trials will start — a
bittersweet note of progress in an impoverished nation still struggling to
rehabilitate its crippled economic and human resources.
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