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The minority were Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai.  These groups were targeted.

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The Kampuchean race was thought to be superior be the Khmer Rouge.
All others, such as Buddhists, were thought to be inferior.

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The upper class was segregated because they were believed to put the country in danger.

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The Khmer Rouge forced Cambodians to wear scarfs which would determine if they would be killed right away or not. The people who were forced to wear blue checkered scarves were mostly from the Eastern zone, and if they were seen with blue, they would be killed. Others were forced to wear red or yellow checkered scarves.

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Enemies of Khmer Rouge and others they deemed to be inferior were put into prisons where they were barely fed and tortured. Where all the kids, men, and women saw the end of their lives. They worked just so they could eat, if you became sick and could not work, you would be sent to death.

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Cambodians were forced out of their homes and threatened with death if the did not leave.

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Religion was ban and all businesses were shut down.

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Children, sick, and elderly were gathered together.

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When people stopped working, confessed to their crimes, or disobeyed the Khmer Rouge, they were sent to the killing fields. About 1 million people died from being shot on the killing fields and were then buried in mass graves.

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Re-education programs were put in place. Khmer trained people to work in farms and assigned them to a social class.

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Many people also died from disease, dehydration, starvation, or from being overworked. This was due to the poor living conditions and terrible treatment they experienced.

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1.5 - 3 million people were killed by Khmer Rouge in total.

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The capital and other large cities were evacuated, and the residents were sent to work in the country.  The  weakest were sent to prisons, along with children, and the smartest were taken as well, as the Khmer Rouge Regime thought they were a threat.

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The upper class Cambodian's were killed for being too strong towards the country. The Khmer Rouge then decided to execute all of the strongest, smartest people. To hide the fact of this, the Khmer Rouge attempted to hide all the news and information saying that all these people were executed. They tried covering this up so that news would not spread to other countries, and so that they would not lose their power. The Khmer Rouge was denying the fact that they were holding people in camps, removing the educated, etc.

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People were separated from their families, only being able to see each other once a month.

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An international court is trying to prosecute Khmer Rouge officials for their atrocities, but the Cambodian government denies that any crimes were committed.

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Social classes were put in place and people were segregated

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https://cambodiangenocideproject.weebly.com/dehumanization.html

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To prepare to put people into prisons, etc. They made people evacuate from hospitals and from schools so they could turn them into prisons and labor camps.