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The government claimed that citizens were getting outside information and told others that the educated and muslims

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People who were smart and or looked upon as a threat to the government were targeted

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Those taken to the labor camps were Starved, Abused, Physical Abuse, Disease, Exhaustion, and Starvation

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They formed Khmer Rouge so they could wipe out the citizens of Cambodia. They took up about three quarters of Cambodian territory and the group was made up of communists

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The killings of the educated lasted from 1973-1975

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Many people who supported the Khmer Rouge Regime stated that the claims made that the Khmer Rouge Regime slaughtered millions of people were highly exaggerated

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Many people who supported the Khmer Rouge Regime stated that the claims made that the Khmer Rouge Regime slaughtered millions of people were highly exaggerated

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Pol pot was the main leader of the regime

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Millions of people, such as those who were educated, elderly, anyone who was considered a threat, or anyone who was unuseful were taken to labor camps

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Public buildings were turned into killing and labor camps

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People were worked to death and put in unbearable  conditions

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Khmer Rouge killed between 1.5 and 2 million Cambodians during this genocide

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Children were captured and became soldiers

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the educated, elderly, children, and muslims were captured and forced to work, as soon as they were deemed not useful they were shot

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Soldiers from the Khmer Rouge forced citizens out of their homes and into the fields with blow horns and guns

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The government of Cambodia was trying to prevent the process of prosecuting members of the Khmer Rouge regime

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Disabled, elderly, children, and pretty much anyone who could not sufficiently work in the labor camps were killed

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Pol Pot was a teacher for most of his years until he became the leader of Khmer Rouge. During that time, he was plotting his revolution to make Cambodia a utopia

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People from the Eastern Zone were required to wear a blue checkered scarf

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People from the Eastern Zone were required to wear a blue checkered scarf

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Other people were required to wear red and yellow checkered scarfs

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Other people were required to wear red and yellow checkered scarfs

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They wanted to make everybody equal so they killed everybody that was superior and everybody that was less than most people. This left only average people which he believed made Cambodia "equal"

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In 1975, Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government, wanting to turn the country into a communist agrarian utopia. Khmer Rouge mostly emptied the cities, and took many to labor camps.Khmer Rouge also killed and torturedanyone such as doctors, teachers, educated people, monks, the rich and anyone who was thought to be in opposition

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Anyone that was seen with a blue checkered scarf was killed immediately

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Anyone that was seen with a blue checkered scarf was killed immediately

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These children fled with their families after the khmer rouge raid are waiting for food at an aid station

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Certain rules were made up such as if you smile, laugh or cry in front of a solider, you could be shot immediately

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Khmer Rouge purposely starved the prisoners which left many people dead after a few days

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They believed that anybody that didn't go along with the Khmer Rouge's expectations, should have the opportunity to live

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The soldiers classified society by killing people such as intellectuals, doctors, teachers, professionals, monks, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai

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Families were separated in labor camps and killed before they were able to find each other in these camps

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Khmer Rouge denied that they forced people to work in labor camps and taking away people that were educated

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Eastern zone people

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Colored scarfs to tell who is in what group/zone