Cambodia

The Cambodia genocide was an attempt by a man named Pol Pot leader of the Khmer Rouge to form a communist peasant farming society. His thrive for what he thought to be perfection ended in over 25 percent of the country’s population dead due to starvation, overwork, and executions
How Pol Pot began his observed thinking was in Paris where he became absorbed into Marxism and neglected his studies. Eventually he went back to Cambodia and joined an underground communist movement.
By 1962, Pol was leader of the communist party and due to threats by Cambodia’s leader of the time, fled to the jungle where he built up an army based on gorilla warfare. His gorilla warfare was intended to ousted Cambodia’s leader Prince Sihanouk, but the US in 1970 did that for Pol, and in retaliation the prince joined Pol pot’s party called the Khmer Rouge
In 1970 the US invaded Cambodia to expel the North Vietnamese from their border encampments, but instead drove them deeper into Cambodia. Bombs from the US’s fight in Cambodia from 1969-1973 killed 1500 00 Cambodian peasant, who with the driven Vietnamese, all allied together in the Khmer Rouge army. Soon enough the rouge arm marched into the capital city called Phnom Penh and seized control.
Now that Pol pot was in power he began his radical experiment to create an agrarian utopia, which was inspired by china’s Mao’s Great leap forward. This consisted of the purging of class enemies. Pol renamed this “The Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.”
He began by extinguishing capitalism, western culture, city life, religion, and all foreigners, in turn for peasant communism. All foreigners were expelled and any form of media was closed down, even telephone usage curtailed, sealing off Cambodia from the outside world.
Then began the preparation where every city was evacuated into the country fields at gunpoint, over 20, 000 were killed during this process alone. Once in field there were forced into Pol pot’s killing fields were they bean to die from being over worked, mal-nutrition and disease. Their diet was 180 grams of rice, which would be about a tin size, ever two days. They worked brutal 18 hour days, where the younger Khmer Rouge were eager to kill anyone for slightest disturbance.
Through out this process there were often deadly purged to eliminate the “ old society”, meaning the educated, wealth, Buddhist, police, doctor and so forth. Forms of killing included bludgeoned with an ax. Anyone suspected of being disloyal to Pol Pot were shot on the spot without questioning.
For four year the brutality of Pol Pot continued, killing 1, 700,000 people, almost 2 million people. It was not until the new Vietnamese government invaded Cambodia and stopped Pol pot that some of the killing stopped. Still it took 17 years of fighting to finally bring Pol into custody. Before trial in 1975 Pol died.