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Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot GenocideBy Jessica Sokol, Chris Laug, Kristen Oettinger, Corin Geoghegan, and Sophia Bastedo
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Background of the Khmer Genocide
● A man named Pol Pot who was a part of the Cambodian Communist Party and he had to go into the jungle to escape Prince Norodom Sihanouk who was the leader of Cambodia.
● While Pol Pot resided in the in the jungle he came up with an armed resistance movement which was called Khmer Rouge
● The Khmer Rouge began by guerrilla warfare against Sihanouk’s government.
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Goals of Pol Pot GenocideThe goals of Pol Pot in Cambodia were to…
● Have a “purified” society, or a utopian society that he once observed in China● To have absolutely no western influence (be isolated)- No religion, western culture, and capitalistic ideas
● Adapt on a communist peasant farming society
● Create his own “Super Great Leap Forward” - Strict form of communism and tension between enemies
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How did people allow this?Many groups of people were being killed, the educated, the wealthy, Buddhist monks, police, doctors, lawyers, teachers… Etc.
- If the majority of people are being killed who is there to stop it? Many people were afraid of the Government. If
they spoke up they would be killed
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Foreign Interaction ● In 1970 Prince Sihanouk was banished by a U.S group
called the Right wing military coup.the U.S joined the once enemy to end Combondia new military government
● Mao Zedong also had an impact on Cambodian government giving them the idea to do there own great leap forward to help purify their government
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Outcome of the Pol Pot Genocide
- 25% of the country’s population was dead.- Death due to overwork, starvation, and execution.- Ethnic groups were attacked; Chinese, and cam muslims, along with twenty other small groups.
- 50% of the population of about 425,000 chinese living in cambodia in 1975 were dead.