the khmer rouge & cambodian genocide
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The Khmer Rouge & Cambodian Genocide. Genocide ( n ) – the deliberate killing of an entire national or ethnic group of people. Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot. 1975—Saigon falls to North Vietnam Khmer Rouge rises to power next door Rename country Kampuchea - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Khmer Rouge&
Cambodian Genocide
Genocide (n) – the deliberate killing of an entire national or ethnic group of people
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Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot• 1975—Saigon falls to North Vietnam• Khmer Rouge rises to power next door• Rename country Kampuchea• Goals: (1) Destroy all foreign influence in Cambodia
(2) Communist Revolution• Executions & famine
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Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979)• Executions & famine kill ~2 million people
(25% of total population)• Hundreds of thousands taken in shackles to dig their mass graves• Beaten with iron bars, tortured,
enslaved, buried alive
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Vietnam & UN Involvement•1979—Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia and overthrow Pol Pot• Vietnamese occupied Cambodia until 1989• 1991—United Nations (UN) reaches peace settlement, hold elections•Dilemma: Put former leaders on trial for crimes against humanity?• 2007—UN/Cambodian tribunal finds evidence of “crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, homicide, torture, and religious persecution”