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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.
Dith Pran coined the term “killing fields” to describe the horrific volume of bodies left behind by Khmer Rouge killing sprees. “The term captures the magnitude and intentionality of Khmer...
Martin Shaw described the Cambodian genocide as "the purest genocide of the Cold War era". In 1979, Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime, ending the genocide. After five years of researching 20,000 grave sites, analysis indicates at least 1,386,734 victims of execution.
Historically, this period—as shown in the film The Killing Fields—has come to be known as the Cambodian Genocide.
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, died in 1998. Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives. Pol Pot, seen here in a 1975 photo, led the Khmer Rouge regime between 1976 and 1979. International...
The result was an ancient society’s wholesale destruction and a horrifying new term for the world to confront: “the killing fields.” The Khmer Rouge began their reign with the murder of surrendering officials of the former government and the brutal emptying of the capital and other cities.
The Cambodian genocide took the lives of up to three million people - between 1975 and 1979. Many were forced to work at labor camps where they faced abuse, torture and starvation. But this is only part one of the story. The lesser known part is the story of Preah Vihear Mountain, where over forty thousand refugees were forced to climb to their ...
