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In power from April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, they destroyed all the major institutions in the country. An estimated 1.7 million people out of an estimated total population of 7.9 million died from executions, hunger, disease, injuries, coerced labor, and exposure to the elements.
Demographer Patrick Heuveline estimated that between 1.17 million and 3.42 million Cambodians died unnatural deaths between 1970 and 1979, with between 150,000 and 300,000 of those deaths occurring during the civil war. Heuveline's central estimate is 2.52 million excess deaths, of which 1.4 million were the direct result of violence.
- 17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days)
- Democratic Kampuchea
- 1.5 to 2 million
- Khmer Rouge
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Approximately more than 150,000 people arrived in the U.S. from 1975 to 1990. According to the book Survivor by Sucheng Chan, Cambodian Refugees came to the U.S. in three waves. The first wave of refugees escaped Cambodia and came to the U.S. after the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge government in April 1975.
The Cambodian Genocide was the murder of between 1,500,000 and 3,000,000 Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge (the popular name for the Communist Party of Kampuchea [CPK]), between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge came to power following a period of civil war and unrest in Cambodia and in the midst of Cold War tensions between America, the Soviet Union ...
Date: 1976 - 1978. Location: Cambodia. Cambodian genocide, systematic murder of up to three million people in Cambodia from 1976 to 1978 that was carried out by the Khmer Rouge government under Pol Pot. Immediately after World War II, the Americans and the French fought wars against communism in Korea and Vietnam, respectively.
This page was last updated in April 2018. From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died.
Cambodian casualties: 50,000–150,000 (per Ben Kiernan; other estimates vary widely) This figure refers to the entirety of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, including the Operation Menu bombings. Vietnamese casualties: unknown
