Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge (literally Red Khmers) were the Communist guerillas in Cambodia in the early 1970s. They were created, trained, funded and equipped by North Viet Nam. After the United States Congress, in violation of its treaty obligations, cut off all military aid to South Viet Nam and Cambodia, both of those countries fell to Communist rule in April of 1975. South Viet Nam was conquered by North Viet Nam and Cambodia was taken over by the Khmer Rouge. Over the next three years the Khmer Rouge killed nearly half the population in Cambodia.

The U.S. invasion of Cambodia occurred almost immediately at the end of the hugely unpopular war in Viet Nam. The invasion was mostly conducted by air attacks, in which the United States flew almost 4,000 sorties and dropped more than 540,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. Our aim was the ouster of Prince Nordom Sihanouk from power, and it was achieved by the imposition on Cambodia of a government led by Lon Nol and supported by the United States which avoided, for a small time, the eventual takeover of the country by forces of the Khmer Rouge or Khmer Communist Party led by Pol Pot, who would eventually slaughter more than a million of his countrymen, including almost all of those Cambodians who had any formal education.

The reaction of American college students was at first muted, because most of the American operations in Cambodia took place in very strict secrecy. However, when the rumors of the Cambodian invasion turned into palpable knowledge of its existence, many American college students who had been active in the movement against the war in Viet Nam protested and displayed great anger against the Nixon Administration and the architect of the invasion, Dr. Henry Kissinger.

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Pol Pot was removed from power in Cambodia in January 1979 when Vietnamese forces invaded the country, leading to the collapse of his Khmer Rouge regime. The invasion was prompted by ongoing border conflicts and the Khmer Rouge's brutal policies, which had resulted in widespread suffering and genocide. After the Vietnamese takeover, a new government was established, and Pol Pot retreated to the jungle, where he continued to lead the Khmer Rouge until his eventual capture and death in 1998.

The Khmer Rouge combined several extremists government ideas. Their social policy focused on achieving a purely agrarian society and used ethnic cleansing campaigns and executions to hasten their goals. The Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, once said it was his goal to '[achieve] a complete Communist society without wasting time on the intermediate steps.'

PolPot ruled from 1963 to 1998