Their plan was to transform Cambodia into a Communist Society, in a ruthless attempt by human slaughter. An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent (approx. 2 million) of the country's population from starvation, overwork and half were by executions. Pol Pot was trying to bring Cambodia back to what he called 'Ground Zero'. 'Ground Zero' was his idea of what a utopian society should be. In order to reach this perfect society, all the citizens would have to be peasants who lived life on a subsistence level. Another theory is that was afraid that since he wasn't very powerful, revolt and overthrow could easily be obtained. So killing all of the city dwellers was his only hope for retarding a coup, because he figured that only the educated and already tainted citizens would have the power to unite against him." In the "The Killing Fields", a 1984 film, journalist: Dith Pran, feigns simple-mindedness as intellectuals are made to disappear.
The Khmer Rouge had a goal of making Cambodia a Communist country. Instead the Khmer Rouge led to genocide on a grand scale, with upwards of 2 million Cambodian citizens killed.
Transform Cambodia into communist society.
Lon Nol was the prime minister of Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge in 1972-1975.
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Millions of people who opposed the Khmer Rouge were killed.
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he made the world aware of the Khmer rouge's brutality He took Photographs of what was happening in Cambodia and sent them to a newspaper in America. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't know a lot of the things that we know about the Khmer Rouge's reign in Cambodia.
The Khmer Rouge was the communist group that seized control of Cambodia in 1975. They instigated the Cambodian Genocide, which killed three million people. The Khmer Rouge was deposed in 1979 by the Vietnamese army.
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