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7.5 million people lived in Cambodia before the genocide. 6.7 million people lived in Cambodia after the genocide.

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on the 25 of December in 1978 Vietnam launched an attack on Cambodia and eventually in January 7 of 1979 they eventually defeat them.

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Population vs Predicted Population in Cambodia 

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Population vs Predicted Population in Cambodia 

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The Cambodian Genocide started on April 17, 1975 and ended on January 7, 1979.
Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Foreign journalists who were in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge captured the city wrote harrowing accounts of the atrocities they witnessed. After that, the Khmer Rouge sealed off the country from the outside world, but reports of unspeakable hardships continued to trickle out. Western journalists interviewing refugees at Thai border camps heard accounts of widespread executions, disease, and starvation.

In Washington, US officials publicly denounced the atrocities. People who had long distrusted US motives in Southeast Asia often dismissed these statements as lies or exaggeration, the propaganda of a government that had warned of a bloodbath. But the information was reliable and it was believed at the top levels of the US administration. A 1976 memo from Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor, to President Ford shows detailed knowledge of the regime's brutal efforts to remake the country.

Nonetheless, the US government took little action. With the disastrous defeat in Vietnam still fresh in memory, Washington was reluctant to get involved in the region again. It proceeded with its military withdrawal from the Southeast Asian mainland.

Gradually, the United States took a stronger stance against the Khmer Rouge, at least in public statements. In April 1978, President Carter declared them to be "the worst violator of human rights in the world today." But he too took no affirmative steps to end crimes that were still underway.

After the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge and the reopening of the country, the crimes began to gain wider international attention. News media reported on survivors' accounts. The 1984 film The Killing Fields, starring Sam Waterston as New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg and Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran, his Cambodian colleague, became a cultural touchstone, introducing people all over the world to Cambodia and its ordeal.

In 1987, Pran and Ngor joined with others to demand an investigation of Khmer Rouge abuses. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel called for world leaders "to explore the tragedy in all of its aspects. . . . We have learned from history that tragic truth is better than no truth." But still there was no official international investigation.

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International Response to Khmer Rouge Rule - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Foreign journalists who were in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge captured the city wrote harrowing accounts of the atrocities they witnessed. After that, the Khmer Rouge sealed off the country from the outside world, but reports of unspeakable hardships continued to trickle out.

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Pol Pot established a communist, totalitarian, regime. An agrarian society was enforced with little to no technology excluding farming tools

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Forty years after genocide, Cambodia finds complicated truth hard to bear

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Questions of guilt and innocence run deep when confronting the Khmer Rouge horrors that left one in four people dead

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People killed in the Cambodian genocide 

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People killed in the Cambodian genocide 

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In the years 1975 to 1978 25% of the Cambodian population was killed.
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide

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All Cambodians were targeted and were forced to work in farming or were forced to join the Khmer Rouge.

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The Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot were the perpetrators of the Cambodians.

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Courtesy of The History Place