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Khmer Rouge media type="custom" key="3926849" Khmer Rouge was the communist movement in [|Cambodia]. Solath Sar known as “[|Pol Pot]” was the leader of the Khmer Rouge who ruled from 1975 - 1979. The Khmer Rouge carried out a form of collectivization and social engineering that included isolating the country, closing schools, hospitals, factories, and banks, outlawing religion, abolishing currency, confiscating property and relocating people from urban areas to collective farms with forced labor. The purpose of this policy was to turn Cambodians into old people and have a total classless society. These actions resulted in massive deaths through executions, work exhaustion, illness, and starvation. The Khmer Rouge took the lives of an estimated 1.5 - 3 million people. The Khmer Rouge came to be known as one of the worst mass killing genocides of the 20th century. The brutal killings and forces of labor were brought on by ones own government. The Khmer Rouge government was over thrown by Vietnamese troops who invaded Cambodia through border confrontations in 1979. Pol Pot was captured in 1997 and put on house arrest but was never brought to justice because he died less than a year later. Many citizens refused to move back to Cambodia from the refugee camps because of fear. The citizens immigrated to other countries and left there homeland. Others who stayed in the country told there shocking stories and awaited the sentence of Pol Pot that never came to be. Who - The Khmer Rouge communist party was in charge of the genocide known as Khmer Rouge. This communist party was made up of followers from Cambodia residence. Pol Pot was the leader of this party. What – Millions of Cambodia’s people were slaughtered because of an attempt to turn Cambodia into a farming collectivization. This is because the Khmer Rouge wanted total power and gained it by killing, starving, and working people to death. Where – The Khmer Rouge started by taking over the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh and moving throughout Cambodian lands. When – The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975 and was over thrown by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979 saving what was left of the Cambodian people. Why – The total genocide of the Khmer Rouge has no logical reason for its explanation. Innocent people were killed over a failing government and a communist party who wanted total control of the Cambodian country. The Khmer Rouge left what was left of the people in Cambodia in fear. After the invasion many residence of the country fled to neighboring countries and safe camps at borders. Survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide still tell there stories about what they experienced through the years of the ruling of the Khmer Rouge. All of the stories are very negative and the brutality of the stories can leave you feeling some of the pain that they have to feel everyday.

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