When an entire country becomes associated with an epithet like the killing fields, it’s certainly warrants the inclusion in any list of infamous places. This was the term used to describe the mass grave sites of Cambodia in the late 1970’s officially renamed as the Democratic Kampuchea the country under the rule of the Khmer Rouge was a very grim place indeed.
The Khmer Rouge is a radical, political regime that formulated its doctrines throughout the 1960’s in Vietnamese border camps. It believed that rural peasant farmers where the true working-class proletarians and the backbone of the revolution.
After prolonged period of increasing their control over the rest of the country, the Khmer Rouge eventually captured the capital Phnom Penh on the 17th of April 1975 with Saloth Sar officially becoming Prime Minister in May. Saloth Sar is better known as Pol Pot.
Once in power, Pol Pot could continue the doctrines of eventually soar between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians external affair out of a population going to seven million. Pol Pot promoted the idea that printed his agrarian future. This included a radical policy of relocation with cities emptied and decedents forcibly reeducated would dispose of a mass grave. They were forced to dig themselves. The most well-known of the killing fields is Choeung Ek that now has a Buddhist memorial to the genocide.
The Khmer Rouge is eventually brought down following an invasion by Vietnam in 1979. The movement is not destroyed though with Vietnamese in their existence isn’t excused to retain its multi-presence in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge represented in retaining their seats in the United Nations.
Pol Pot fled and lived in the wood from a Thai border before finally dying in controversial circumstances on the 15th of April 1998. He was never brought to justice for his actions.
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