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Since the primary goal of the Khmer Rouge was to create a communist society within Cambodia, their first targets had to be those that threatened the fallacy, nor could fit in it. Such as civil rights leaders, and those of high wealth they were the first to be targeted, not only for rehabilitation, but within the genocide

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Not only did the Khmer Rouge support communism, they followed the Marxism/Leninism form of it, meaning they also wanted a society where all foo contribute to work, something the old and the sickly could not do, they became the next targets.

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Lastly, to ensure the ability for the Khmer Rouge to not only secure, but keep power in Cambodia, people such as doctors, and others who posed a threat to revealing the dictatorship (as pol pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, gained control mostly behind the scenes until civil war broke out), meant that the last set of people targeted by the Khmer Rouge, were those of high intelligence

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The Khmer Rouge, in an attempt to dehumanize and discriminate, banned religion, music of any type, any type of media(radio), foreign languages, wearing sun glasses, and expressing any form of affection.

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Once Khmer Rouge was in power, the Eastern zone was evacuated. They then had to wear a blue and white checkered scarf. This was was for the Khmer Rouge as they knew those were the people who they would kill. Almost all the people coming from Eastern zone had to wear these scarfs as the Khmer Rouge wanted nothing to do with them so they were automatically killed.

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Those who had physical and mental limitations or obstacles were classified as useless. Therefore, they were killed because they were deemed unnecessary and useless in the work fields.

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The Khmer Rouge created symbols such as making people wear glasses if they could read, making it easier to identify the people who were more intelligent.

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The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot organized Cambodians into labor groups based off of age. Younger laborers were given superior privileges and conditions because they were more fruitful and beneficial to the advancement of the Khmer Rouge agricultural industry. Elders were either killed or lived in unsuitable and brutal situations. The Khmer Rouge organized these people in order to better distinguish who should be alive and who would be more advantageous to the regime.

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After Civil war broke out in Cambodia, and the eventual victory of the Khmer Rouge, they had almost immediately deported 2.5 million different people without discrimination to weather or not they were major targets, out of Phnom Penh, to toil in rice fields (labor camps, as part of a rehabilitation process)

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The Khmer Rouge had a mantra, "To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss." This illustrates how the Khmer Rouge values life, they feel as if life is worth nothing.

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The Khmer Rouge separated children from their families and made them write personal information in order for the regime to more easily place them in the group they "belonged" too.

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There were many people that were targeted during this genocide. People who were deemed smart or who could seem to overtake the Khmer Rouge were killed. This included educators, doctors, intellectuals, etc. Also people who could not do the hard labor were killed like children, elder, handicapped, and ill. Lastly people who were considered oppositions from different religions/backgrounds. Some included Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Cambodians with Chinese, Vietnamese, or Thai ancestry, and more. Religious leaders were also murdered right away.

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Many people were then forced out of their home and town and took to farms and labor camps. The citizens political and civil rights were taken away. Religion was not allowed, and people often got shot for speaking a different language, wearing glasses, smiling, or crying. Prisons, stables, camps, killing fields, and granaries were created all.

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Only two Khmer Rouge Leaders were accused for crimes against humanity, both of which were in their mid to late 80's. These are the only 2 people to be sentenced, or even tried in the 40 years since the genocide. Pol Pot was not tried and kept living until he eventually he died of a heart attack in 1998.

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In extention to the rice fields, many were killed in what were known as detention camps, which pretty much were concentration camps used for the sole purpose of extermination. If those who either kept and hid away rations, by taking from the fields, or complained about conditions, were not lucky enough to be beaten or killed on the spot, they would instead be sent to detention camps, places of absolute horror. Their only use was for the most ruthless of the Khmer Rouge to viciously torture, and eventually kill those who broke the rules, or seemed to be incapable of being changed. One of the most infamous was S-21, responsible for the deaths of 20,000, it is now used as a memorial museum in honor of the Genocide, in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

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as a final piece of the extermination process, as use of a fear tactic, against existing prisoners, those killed in the genocide were buried in mass graves across large fields, some times right nearby the rice fields. In order to keep the slacking in shape, an the rebels in line. These grizzly places, were nicknamed killing fields, by the genocides survivors.

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Polarization in the Khmer Rouge regime was very strong, radical and evident. If anyone was to oppose or go against what the Khmer Rouge wanted, they would be killed. Polarization in governments can be very dangerous because one side will refuse to see the points of the other side out of greed for power. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot refused to see the other side of the conflict and acknowledge that communism would not be the best condition for the country at that time. This is how dictators gain power; they kill anyone that appears as an obstacle in their path, instead of making compromises with the opposite side. When we create compromises we have a more satisfied nation, which is much better for the well being of that nation.