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“The Khmer Rouge’s policies were guided by its belief that the citizens of Cambodia had been tainted by exposure to outside ideas, especially by the capitalist West. The Khmer Rouge persecuted the educated — such as doctors, lawyers, and current or former military and police. Christian, Buddhist and Muslim citizens also were specifically targeted. In an effort to create a society without competition, in which people worked for the common good, the Khmer Rouge placed people in collective living arrangements — or communes — and enacted ‘re-education’ programs to encourage the commune lifestyle.”
https://www.hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Cambodia.shtml

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Everyone was assigned a different social class. The higher your social class was the better conditions you lived in.

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people who were not suited to work, such as children, the ill, and elders, were still forced to work

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During/before the genocide people were seeing many such as political threats and Intellectuals and other wise smarter people being taken and captured and later be put t death all the while people were catching on yet no major actions were taken to stop this, creating an attitude againset threats.

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When the Cambodia Genocide acquired competency over Cambodia they began, taking away a vast majority of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Their violence upstarted as they brought these residents to the more rural sides of the country, they were brought to labor camps where they faced physical abuse, exhaustion, and starvation prevailed to all

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Stereotypes of the ethnic minorities were put in place

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The Khmer Rouge also made sure that Children and Babies were not excused from any of what they forced upon the adults.

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Cambodian population was divided into two categories, the base population (mostly peasants) and the new population (mostly those who lived in cites)

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At first the Khmer Rouge did not find it necessary to execute the groups of people in which they did not want, instead they used starvation to do this. Which is a painful way to go, they were tortured.

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The Khmer Rouge discriminated mostly on the Chinese because they were part of the wealthy class

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Vietnamese and chinese citizens were seen as disgusting and bad for the country. They claimed that vietnamese people were polluting the air.

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When the number of prisoners rose Khmer Rouge chose to transfer over to a system of "killing fields". There were hundreds of these

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"Children and babies were not exempt from their cruelty; it was often noted “to stop the weeds you must also pull up their roots.” Anyone affiliated with Lon Nol’s regime or military was also immediately killed."