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2 days ago · The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 ( c. 7.8 million).
3 days ago · Introduction. From 1975 to 1979, Cambodia was ruled by one of the most brutal and murderous regimes in modern history: the Khmer Rouge. Led by the Marxist revolutionary Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge seized power after a devastating civil war and embarked on a radical transformation of Cambodian society that resulted in the deaths of up to two million people, or one quarter of the country‘s ...
2 days ago · Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...
3 days ago · A publication by Kent State geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s. Stian Rice, MA ’12, PhD ’18, was a research assistant for James Tyner, PhD, professor of geography in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, when they ...
2 days ago · This list of genocides includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocides that are recognised in significant scholarship as genocides. It excludes mass killings which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as the Thirty Years' War (4.5 to 8 million deaths ...
4 days ago · There’s no point in me explaining the genocide carried out by Pol Pot’s Communist dictatorship through Khmer Rouge during their reign from 1975-1979. Death was everywhere. While true numbers are disputed 3, estimates of up to over a quarter of the population died, with dire consequences of land mine explosions that still haunt Cambodians ...
5 days ago · The Khmer Rouge period remains a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of genocide. During her speech, Nderitu acknowledged Cambodia's early commitment to the 1948 Genocide Convention, yet lamented the global community's failure to uphold the convention’s promise of "Never Again”.
