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It was the Pol Pot goverment as he turned into a extremist Darwinian, he took the "Survival of the fittest" motto to heart as Hitler and Stalin did. Surviving the Pol Pot genocide was next to impossible. Once a group was rounded none of them was ever released. After torture and interrogation, sometimes stretching over several months, all of these men, women and children were brutally put to death. The Khmer Rouge in retreat had some help from American relief agencies - 20,000 to 40,000 guerrillas who reached Thailand received food aid -and the West also ensured that the Khmer Rouge (rather than the Vietnam-backed communist government) held on to Cambodia's seat in the United Nations: the Cold War continued to dictate what allegiances and priorities were made.
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∙ 12y agoCambodia is a country in South East Asia, less than half the size of California and twice the size of Scotland. The Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement in 1970 was small. Their leader, Pol Pot, had been educated in France and was an admirer of Maoist communism; he was also suspicious of Vietnam's relations with Cambodia. The heavy American bombardment in Vietnam and Lon Nol's collaboration with America, drove new recruits to the Khmer Rouge. This is how the Cambodia genocide started.
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∙ 9y agoIt was the Pol Pot government as he turned into an extremist Darwinian, he took the "Survival of the fittest" motto to heart as Hitler and Stalin did.
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∙ 8y agoPol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were the person and entity responsible for the Cambodian Democide.
To be completely fair, it is a democide (murder of numerous citizens by the state without regard to race, religion, gender, etc.) as opposed to a genocide (murder of numerous citizens because they belong to a specific race, religion, gender, etc.). So it was not a "genocide against Cambodians"; Cambodians were not being killed because they were Cambodians. Pol Pot, the Communist leader of Cambodia, killed millions of Cambodians as part of his internal reorganization schemes.
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∙ 12y agoKhmer rouge under the guidance of Pol Pot.
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∙ 14y agoThe Communist Party of Kampuchea, known as the 'Khmer Rouge' (ruled from 1975 to 79), led by Pol Pot
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∙ 12y agoKhmer Rouge under the guidance of Pol Pot.
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∙ 8y agoThe Cambodian Communist leader Pol Pot.
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∙ 15y agoPol Pot
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Who decided the Cambodian genocide is a genocide?
Typically, a genocide is "certified" by leading academics when a set of circumstances in the world qualifies under the definition of genocide. This is exactly what happened in the Cambodian genocide.
What genocide in Asia called when they were killing scholars?
The Cambodian genocide.
Who tried to stop the cambodian genocide?
No.
Who ended the Cambodian Genocide?
mike Jones did
Who knew about the Cambodian genocide and ignored it?
south Vietnam
How did Cambodian genocide occur?
people killed other people
Who was the leader behind the Cambodian genocide?
Pol Pot,the leader of the Khmer Rouge.
When was the Cambodia genocide?
the cambodian war happened in 1971 and ended in 1985.
Were the perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide ever brought to justice?
The efforts made by the Cambodian government and the international community to bring genocidal perpetrators to justice were significant.
Where was Pol pot during the cambodian genocide?
Khmer Rouge was located in Cambodia, China.
Did the pol pot genocide end?
Yes. The Cambodian genocide ended in 1979 when the Vietnamese Army invaded Cambodia and overthrew Pol Pot's government.
What was one of the effects of Pol Pot's efforts to turn Cambonia into a rural society?
The cambodian genocide
