GENOCIDE World Issues. Leader of Cambodia - 1975 Pol Pot.

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GENOCIDE World Issues

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“This Is Year Zero”  “Purify” Society  Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion erased  Replaced with peasant Communism.

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GENOCIDEWorld Issues

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Leader of Cambodia - 1975

Pol Pot

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“This Is Year Zero” “Purify” Society Capitalism,

Western culture, city life, religion erased

Replaced with peasant Communism.

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Cambodia Sealed From World. Newspapers and television stations were shut down.

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Money

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Religion

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Education

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Parents

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Cities Evacuated

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Cities At Phnom Penh,

two million inhabitants evacuated on foot at gunpoint.

As many as 20,000 died along the way.

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Killing Fields Forced into slave

labor Soon began dying

from overwork, malnutrition and disease.

Diet of one tin of rice per person every two days.

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Workdays Workdays in the fields began around 4

a.m. and lasted until 10 p.m.,

Only two rest periods allowed during the 18 hour day.

Every tenth day was a day of rest. Three days off during the Khmer New Year festival.

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Young People Unsupervised

gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden.

Young people placed in communals.

Later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of unwilling couples.

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Overall Resulted in the

deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.

Two Million Deaths

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LOST BOYS OF SUDAN

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