Cambodia

Northeast would be the former North Vietnam. N/W would be Thailand.

"Officially" US troops invaded (the quote "incursion") Cambodia on 01 May 1970. The Kent State shootings occurred on 04 May 1970 protesting that "incursion" (invasion).

Un-officially US troops and aerial bombing had been occurring since day one (probably even in 1955).

Special Ops men had been recording, studying, photographing, sketching, and doing alittle destructive work on NVA armor (tanks), facilities, cache supplies, depots, routes (Ho Chi Minh Trail), and general troop movements for years.

North Vietnam had at least three armor regiments (PT76 & T54 tanks), and one of those tank regiments was KNOWN to be stationed in Laos/Cambodia; they were being tracked (trailed/tailed) by SF/Special Ops men.

To pit the Chinese against the Russians, or as vengeance against the NVA?

We have many bombs left and we needed to use them up?

.....are you kidding me? this is the most bogus answer i have ever heard. the Chinese and Russians were already at odds, and "we had too many bombs left that needed to be used up?" under that logic then we should shoot off nukes because we have too many of those laying around right? NO!

The answer to this question is simply Nixon and Kissinger's wanting (and politically needing) to get out of Vietnam. By bombing the suspected COSVN (Central Office for South Vietnam), meaning these were Viet Cong (Communist regime supporting people from South Vietnam, often referred to as insurgents in the war) targets, Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger could effectively stun or entirely wipe out the COSVN HQ (head quarters) and therefore create an exit plan that was "honorable" a.ka. not looking like they got defeated. However, dropping 2.7 million tons of bombs on a neutral country (making it the MOST bombed country in the history of the world) as an exit strategy is not cool. The wiping out or devastation of the Viet Cong would greatly improve the chances of survival for the South Vietnamese government without the U.S. holding its hand. Unfortunately, the COSVN HQ was much bigger than the U.S. expected and by the times the U.S. started bombing further into the country, Viet Cong had already high-tailed it out, or pressed further on into the country.

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.

The literacy of Cambodia is 70.1%-which would suggest illiteracy to be 29%

Being on the border of two countries at war with one another (North and South Vietnam), Lao's & Cambodia caught a lot of North Vietnamese Army traffic (troop movements), and a lot of US bombing, because of it.

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.