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3 lis 2021 · 33 Haunting Photos From The Killing Fields Of The Cambodian Genocide. View Gallery. Few horrors compare to the Killing Fields of the Cambodian genocide. Over four short years, from 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge systematically exterminated up to 3 million people.
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By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.2 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to "the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot", [4][5] who were saved by international aid after the Vietnamese invasion.
The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 ( c. 7.8 million).
26 sty 2020 · The Khmer Rouge took thousands of black-and-white photographs of victims. It has taken decades for some to learn what happened to their family members. The regime became paranoid and executed members of its own movement.
16 lis 2018 · 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 regime kept extensive records, including thousands of photographs. Several rooms of the museum are now lined, floor to ceiling, with black and white photographs of some of the estimated 20,000 prisoners who passed through the prison.
S-21, Tuol Sleng. Photos of the S-21 prison taken in October 2012. — Lucian Perkins for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The most notorious of the 189 known interrogation centers in Cambodia was S-21, housed in a former school and now called Tuol Sleng for the hill on which it stands.
