N E W S F E A T H E R . C O M[ U N B I A S E D N E W S I N 1 0 L I N E S O R L E S S ]

4 0 y e a r s a g o , P o l P o t b e g a n t h e C a m b o d i a n g e n o c i d eS I N C E G E N O C I D E4 0 Y E A R S

• April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge (KR) took Cambodia’s capital.

• The KR was headed by Pol Pot, a socialist revolutionary.

• His goal was to create an agrarian (farming) communist utopia.

• The KR forced everyone in cities out into farming labor camps.

• Thousands died from exhaustion, malnutrition, and disease.

• The KR also enforced “purification of the populace.”

• Religious, ethnic, and class purging killed 25% of population.

• Estimates range between 1 and 3 million people.

• It is one of the largest genocides in modern history.

• “To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”