visited on its own people by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot given name

Saloth Sar. The guerrilla movement which successfully came to power using

the destabilization of Cambodia as its starting point right after the United

States put its military forces in Cambodia. On April 17, 1975 an entire nation

vanished. On that day, Khmer Rouge troops marched into the capital city of

Phnom Pehn proclaiming the year zero. Within hours, the army began

evacuating the city of more than two and a half million inhabitants. At this

point, the troops began an exercise in social control on a scale rarely seen.

Under the direction of the Angkar (the Higher Committee), the government

moved people out of the cities into the countryside for a massive reeducation

program. At the same time, there began the systematic killing of those

Cambodians associated with earlier governments. Moreover, any Cambodian

man, woman, or child who was seen as a threat or refused to obey orders was

killed. The ability to speak a western language was sufficient grounds. They

were killed in very ill-mannered ways: the citizens were shot, hanged, beat,

starved, and worked to death. All foreigners were

since the end of World War II (1939-1945). Sar joined the Cambodian and

it was controlled by the French, but there was a Cambodian family who was

Party of Kampuchea, or CPK). "In February of 1963, he became the CPK's

Buddhist artifacts and temples. Anyone who showed any religious sentiment

regime and other areas of Cambodia's long history was in fact very

Cambodian government. However, Pol Pot's lust for power soon came to an

by the destructive U.S. bombing campaigns over Cambodia in the early

muster a communist/peasant revolt in Cambodia. Also, as Pol Pot moved to

most as the most prominent race or group in Cambodia are the Khmer's. It is

group) and non-Khmers living in Cambodia, especially the

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Becker, Elizabeth, When the war was over : Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge

Rouge army began to break up when Ieng Sary, Pol Pot's brother-in-law and

continued to recognize DK as Cambodia's legal government"(Encarta). After

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