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There are many reasons for the genocide in Cambodia. The leader of the Khmer Rouge (a political party that ruled ove cambodia from 1975-1979. Are the people that killed the over two million Cambodians.) said that the reason for the attacks on Cambodians was the United states bombing some of the main cities. Another reason why this genocide started was because Pol Pot (Prime minister) wanted to "Cleanse" the country of all impurities. He wanted to start over and even made a year zero ( You might have to look this one up). Anyone who uphosed was killed.

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Cambodian leaders of the group Khmer Rouge wanted to return the country to a peasant state so they rounded up the intelligent and educated and brought them to what became known as the killing fields to wipe them out and leave only the subservient behind.

Time: 1975-1979

Location: Cambodia

Perpetrators: Khmer Rouge

Victims: Normal Citizens, with increased numbers of educated people.

Number of Victims: 1.7-2 million, estimates from current Cambodian officials are higher

This massacre of almost 25% of the population of Cambodia was perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge during the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) communist regime headed by the late Pol Pot. 2 Their goal was to forcibly convert Cambodia into a peasant state.

Intellectuals were particularly targeted. "The Cambodian genocide is unique, though, in that for many years it remained largely undocumented, and is only now being investigated for the purposes of bringing its perpetrators to justice." 3Tens of thousands of pages of records, over 10,000 photos, and other material are being systematically documented by specialists at Yale University, the Documentation Center of Cambodia, and the University of New South Wales. Included are maps showing the locations of more than 5,000 mass grave sites -- the "killing fields."

After a delay of almost three and a half decades, genocide trials began on 2009-FEB-17 with the trial of Kaing Kech leu, a.k.a. Duch. He headed the S-21 torture center in Tuoi Dlrnh during the 1970s. Between 1975 and 1979, about 17,000 men, women and children were sent to the interrogation center. Only 14 adults and 5 children survived. Four other trials will follow: Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's "Brother Number Two"; Ieng Sary, the Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister; his wife Ieng Thirith, who was Minister of Social Affairs; and Khieu Samphan, who served as President. 15 The Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, died peacefully in 1998 without having been brought to justice.

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the genocide started by a prisoner takin in.

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