Cambodian genocide

• Systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by Khmer Rouge with PM Pol Pot, resulting in 1.5-2 million people dead from 1075-79, nearly 25% of population
• What were the killing fields?

  • Rice farms where people were worked to death with little food and water
  • Attempt to form communist peasant farming society
• What happened to Khmer Rouge children?

  • Believed they could be molded and conditioned to obey orders and became soldiers to kill enemies
  • Other children were executed to avoid revenge and turn against their parents
• Why did the Khmer Rouge hate Vietnam?

  Feared Vietnamese communists were planning to form an Indo-Chinese federation