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While Cambodians in general were victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, the persecution, torture, and killings committed by the Khmer Rouge are considered an act of genocide according to the United Nations as ethnic and religious minorities were systematically targeted by Pol Pot and his regime.
Cambodian genocide, systematic murder of up to three million people in Cambodia from 1976 to 1978 that was carried out by the Khmer Rouge government under Pol Pot. Immediately after World War II, the Americans and the French fought wars against communism in Korea and Vietnam, respectively.
His radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities, killed up to three million people during the Cambodian genocide (1976–78), and left a legacy of brutality and impoverishment.
The Khmer Rouge was a Cambodian communist military group that took power under the leadership of Pol Pot and ignited the Cambodian Genocide in the late 1970s.
Millions of people living in Cambodia were killed during the brutal regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Their bodies were buried in mass graves that became known as “killing fields.” The...
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.
From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died.
