Cambodia

The bombing of Cambodia and Laos was called Operation Menu. This campaign took place in 1969 and in 1970 when the US was involved in the Vietnam War.

Cambodia is now officially called "The Kingdom Of Cambodia"

In Cambodia, the average low temperature is around 74 degrees but in rare occurrences it will drop to 70 degrees, but never below.

Currency is the Riel

Yes, there are two different Cambodian Civil Wars. The more famous Cambodian Civil War was from 1968-1975. A second, less famous Cambodian Civil War of 1979-1999 followed. The intervening period of 1975-1979 was the period of Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia during which Pol Pot's infamous genocide took place.

1953

• 1863 till March 1945: The Protectorate of Cambodia
• March till October 1945: The Japanese Occupation of Cambodia
• 1948 till 1970: The Kingdom of Cambodia
• 1970 till 1975 by Lon Nol: Khmer Republic
• 1975 till 1979 by Khmer Rouge: Democratic Cambodia
• 1979 till 1989 by Hun Sen: People`s Republic of Cambodia
• 1989 till 1991: State of Cambodia
• 1992 till 1993 was the time of UNTAC fully known as: United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
• At last,1993 till 2011 is now same as the year of 1948 till 1970,changing the monarchy in 2004 as the old monarchy resigned.

Saloth Sar, AKA Pol Pot, was the leader of the Khmer Rouge Communist Party and became the defacto leader when government control by the group was forcefully taken. He maintained his power through fear and force through a totalitarian dictatorship that imposed radical agrarian socialism. He used forced relocations, collective farming, executions, forced labor, malnutrition, and withholding of medical care to keep the people weak and under his control.

Khmer rouge under the guidance of Pol Pot.

The Khmer Rouge regime was toppled by the Vietnamese invasion. Funny how people keep using Pol Pot as an example of how bad communism is, yet it also took another communist country to put an end to the slaughter. Western nations did nothing about it, shamefully.

The genocide in Cambodia claimed about 1.7 million persons.

Pol Pot did affect the world through his racist sentiments. As a leader, he helped the spread of slave trade especially in areas where he had jurisdictions.

It was related to the history of the Cambodia. Actually, Cambodia was weak to defend itself from the foreign invaded. That the reason the king of Cambodia decided to put French colony for helping.

Anti- Laotian & Vietnamese racism couples with a wish to return to the Angkor, the empire once centred in Khmer with himself as the centre piece and the peasants worlking with a version of Theravada biddhism holding the whole thing together, was a dogma based system of extermination of 2 million people (he also had some ideas on racial purity though they were secondary, murdering criplled, lame, anyone he thought was an intellectual because they wouldn't be a good worker and also, for some reason, homosexuals)

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.

First off, the genocide is not over, it is still going on, mainly in the region of Darfur. Ever since Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, armed the Janjaweed (Arab militias) in 2003, the violence has escalated, since the government can not control these rampaging murderers and rapists. The Janjaweed cooperates with the government in the complete and utter destruction of villages, more often than not those of African farmers. Since Sudan has often been plagued by droughts that led to famine, the country desperately needs every ounce of food it can get. The murder and destruction does nothing to help this. Also, the refugees forced to flee their homes to live in camps often collect firewood in order to make money and to survive, but due to frequent Janjaweed attacks, many of them have been raped repeatedly. The men don't dare leave the camp, for fear of being murdered or castrated. Economically speaking, the genocide is doing absolutely nothing good for the country, and it will continue to harm, it so long as countries like the USA. do nothing to help the victims.

The Cambodian genocide is not a proper genocide, but rather a democide, where the government kills citizens irrespective of their race, religion, or other defining aspect. However, since the democide resulated from the creation of massive rice paddies and unrealistic quotas, the first to die en masse were usually educated people from the cities. Additionally, the political dissidents who opposed this plan were also educated. Therefore the educated, city elites were most devastatingly hit as a group, but it was not "intended" that way. hundreds of thousands of very poor Cambodians also were tortured and murdered. Also, Khmer (the dominant ethnic group in Cambodia) were just as often targeted (per capita) as ethnic minorities.

He was famous for killing over two million people. By starting collective farms.

Politique potentielle. He was given that nickname by the Chinese authorities.

However his real name was Saloth Sar.

• The exact number of people who died (either from torture, execution or starvation is unknown), but estimates range from 200,000 to two million (out of a population of 8,000,000 at the time). The accepted estimates are around one million.

Most countries were quite aware that the Cambodian democide was going on; they simply did not care to intervene. The US justified its non-intervention by citing exhaustion after the Vietnam War. Ultimately, it was Vietnam that invaded Cambodia and overthrew Pol Pot, ending the Cambodian democide.

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Because Pol Pot wanted to eliminate all traces of the corrupt former regime and start fresh at year zero, he targeted intellectuals, professionals, government before the reign ( non-communists) and even people that were considered literate, or known to be educated.

Most countries, while expressing "regret and sadness" did not actually do anything about the Cambodian genocide. The only party that intervened was the Communist Vietnamese army, which after having a number of border skirmishes with the Khmer Rouge, took the opportunity to evict them from Phnom Penh and end the genocide, 4 years and 1.5 Million Cambodians later.

Pol Pot was a brutal communist dictator who seized power in Cambodia (formerly known as Kampuchea) in 1975. he became prime minister of the "new communist government" with his legion known as the Khmer Rouge in 1976. he was a vicious ruler and implemented forced labor,caused famine(starvation),and executed between 1.5 million to 2 million people in the country. at that time this number was more than 20% of the population. I'm really not sure what his name "MEANS", but his birth name is Saloth Sar.