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notes: the khmer rouge was a regime ruled by of Marxist dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979. He had a "master race" by killing over 2 million people in Southeast Asia.

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Those killed were either executed as enemies of the regime, or died from starvation, disease or overwork.

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known as the Cambodian genocide

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tthe Khmer rouge had a communist group known as the "Red Khmer". he group later waged a war, taking over the Lon Nol government.

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Khmer rouge began planning to "purify" the Cambodian society and create an egalitarian. The regime banned the use of all foreign words and words of power that implied a power hierarchy.

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the regime took over the society by enforcing new policies and principles. which included the forced relocation of most city dwellers to rural cooperatives where everyone, children were also pulled out of school and forced to work in fields.

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Hun Sen's forces took control of the entire country, the remaining Khmer Rouge announced that the Khmer Rouge movement was over. On April 15, 1998, Pol Pot was confirmed dead

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The regime generally singled out doctors, teachers, monks, journalists, the rich, artists, anyone with an education, and ethnic or religious minorities.

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Money, free markets, schools, private property, foreign styles of clothing, religious practices, and other aspects of traditional Khmer culture were abolished

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No evidence was needed in order to send one to prison and people often fabricated their confessions of various crimes, with the belief that this would end their torment.

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The genocide was in part the result of the regime's social engineering policies. Its attempts at agricultural reform through collectivization led to widespread famine while its insistence on absolute self efficiency even

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he Khmer Rouge's racist emphasis on national purity included several genocides of Cambodian minorities.

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The Khmer Rouge government was overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops.

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the Khmer Rouge suffered a series of military defeats and grew weaker from year to year