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People were re-educated if they received an education before the genocide.

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The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot forced Cambodians into labor camps. Children were taken from their parents and placed in separate forced labor camps. Factories, schools, hospitals, and all other private institutions were shut down and their former owners and employees were murdered, along with their extended families. Religion was banned: leading Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries were killed, and temples and churches were burned. It was common for people to be shot for speaking a foreign language, wearing glasses, smiling, or crying.

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Those who complained about work or broke the rules were usually tortured in a detention center S-21

Former government workers, doctors,teachers and other professional  were stripped of the thing that they owned and forced to work in the fields as part of the re-education process

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At Phnom Penh, man,woman and child from the Eastern zone  required them to wear a blue and white checked scarf at all times
If you were wearing a blue scarf they would kill you

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They were separated by
--nationality
-race
-religion
-class
-political beliefs

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They gave people names like, "Gypsies," "Jews", or labeled them by their race, and also labeled them by what kind of clothes they wear.

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The Cham Muslims were especially singled out for murder
Khmer Rouge classified people as
-"base people": people who are Khmer Rouge authority before April 17, 1975
-New people: mostly city people
-new people were marked as to get heavier labor, less food and much severe treatment as the base people

They had read Andre Gunder Frank's Marxist theory that labor worth is a true value. So therefore they immediately took power

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The Khmer Rouge Regime didn't care to feed there people nor treat them right and that is why they were forced into labor to work and then they died with the diseases they got

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They toke these innocent people  and brought them into captivity.

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Those thought of to be “potential opposition” would include, educated people, professionals, religious enthusiasts, Monks, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, ethnic Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodians

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Leader Khmer killed about 2 million in 1975-1979 he did it because he forced them to work and some didn't want to work or maybe they were to weak. There were also Mass Killings.

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It was common for people to get shot who were speaking a foreign language, and wearing glasses due to the people thought that if people they were wearing glasses that they were being educated, also smiling or crying.

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The most massive killing that was committed was the Easter zone population
When Khmer Rouge took power they immediately evacuated:
-patients that were in the middle of the their operation were forced to leave and die
-women in labor were forced to get up and walk

Hundred and thousand of the new people dug their own mass grave then they were beaten up to death with iron bars or buried the alive by Khmer Rouge Soldiers

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"Religion was banned so leading Buddhist, monks and christian missionaries were killed. The United States distributed the guns to Cambodian people. 1980s, the U.S. and U.K. instead offered financial and military support to the Khmer Rouge forces in exile, who had now sworn opposition to Vietnam and communism."

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"The US tried to cover it up. The US and Cambodians were at a secret war with each other"

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People were also in denial of what the regime was doing to them and how it was affecting them

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The victims were tied together in a line and forced to dig mass graves.
Then Khmer Rouge Soldier beat each victim to death by:
-blows to the skull
-severing spinal cord