# data[].attributes.body
The Cambodian Genocide started 1975 during the Vietnam war. Khmer Rouge were the perpetrators. He wanted everyone to be "equal". They killed and targeted educated people for a society that is competition free. The victims were separated by race, religion, nationality, political beliefs, and class.
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
They gave people who were under Khmer Rouge rule before April 17, 1975, were forced to wear blue and checkered white scarves in order to symbolize that they were not the “base people” and that they were different. Other people can wear other colors of scarves, just not white or blue. Many accounts were made that those who wore blue and white scarves were killed every day on the streets.
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
The political and civil rights of the minority groups were taken away. were taken away. The people were identified as the Cham, the Vietamese, and the educated. They attempted to reeducate and persecuted against the educated. The people included doctors, lawyers, current and former military officers and police. These reeducation programs were to create a common lifestyle and to create equality.  The minority groups were forced to move outside of the countryside and to work on farms and camps to eliminate all classes. https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/cambodia
https://hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Cambodia.shtml

# data[].attributes.body
The Khmer Rouge classified people by their race, religion and ethnic group. They got rid of all religions and divided minority groups, saying that they were not allowed to speak their languages and they are not allowed to practice their customs. In the Tuol Sleng prison, the people were given numbers and they were forced to admit that they were animals and not persons before they were murdered.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
The Cambodian Genocide was lead by a group called the Khmer Rouge. Their leader was a man who was called Pol Pot. They used the United State's actions to gain followers when the US bombed most of the Cambodian countryside. The Khmer Rouge kept records of the people who in the group will be killed. They built extermination prisons and groups such as class enemies, the Cham, and people from the Eastern zone are transported to them.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf
https://hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Cambodia.shtml

# data[].attributes.body
People with blue scarves were immediately killed and the Western Zone people were absolutely forbidden to wear blue scarves or they were killed on the spot. When the Khmer Rouge was “re-educating” people, people who refused this were killed in the fields surrounding the commune or sent to the infamous prison camp Tuol Sleng Centre, known as S-21. They were starved, tortured to reveal other people in hiding, and beaten to death.
https://hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Cambodia.shtml
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/the-cambodian-genocide/

# data[].attributes.body
Neither the U.S. nor Europe called attention to the genocides as they were happening, although scholars and others in the West tried to bring attention to the atrocities being committed. The US was trying not to acknowledge the genocide because they had just lost the Vietnam war and didn’t want to get involved in that region again. It wasn’t until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown till the genocide was on international news but even then, there was no international investigation that was done.
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/the-cambodian-genocide/

# data[].attributes.body
The Khmer Rouge used iron bars and hoes to kill the victims. Pol Pot had people running the infamous camps such as Tuol Sleng who then had hundreds of thousands of people who died from  disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge - often just teenagers themselves - forced people to do back-breaking work. Over 17,000 people were killed just in S-21 also known as Tuol Sleng.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-10684399
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
The leaders of the genocide placed workers for the common good in living arrangements and started a “re-education” program to encourage the commune lifestyle. People were divided into categories that reflected the trust that the Khmer Rouge had for them; the most trustworthy were called “old citizens.” The pro-West and city dwellers began as “new citizens” and could move up to “deportees,” then “candidates” and finally “full rights citizens”.

https://hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Cambodia.shtml

# data[].attributes.body
In order to divide the people, they took the educated, such as doctors, lawyers, and current or former military police and separated them for the “non-educated” in attempt to create a society without competition. Also, they vilified saying that they were the enemy and the Khmer Rouge also separated the Eastern zone from the Western zone. The leaders had declared that they wanted "Khmer bodies, but Vietnamese heads."

https://ourcambodiangenocideproject.weebly.com/stages-of-genocide.html

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
Who
The Cambodian genocide was carried out by the Khmer Rouge which was led by pol pot. They took over the Cambodian government. The Khmer Rouge wanted to wipe out the Eastern Zone.
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/the-cambodian-genocide/
Where
The Cambodian genocide occurred in Cambodia, a small country in southeast Asia. Before the genocide happened, Cambodia had a population of 7 million people. Most of them were Buddhists. Cambodia is also surrounded by Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. There were only 1.7 million people left after the genocide.
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/the-cambodian-genocide/
Why
Pol Pot wanted an agrarian utopia. He decided to wipe out the really smart people who posed as a threat because he wanted everyone to be equal. That way he could be the only one in power.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-10684399
When
The Cambodian genocide occurred between 1975 to 1979. It lasted for 4 years.
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/the-cambodian-genocide/