https://padlet.com/366230/j0k5vv7704o6 By MIguel Estrada en-us 2019-11-20 20:59:34 UTC 2019-12-04 19:32:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47b.png 366230 https://padlet.com/366230/j0k5vv7704o6/wish/414325177 The killing fields of Cambodia  are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975).The mass killings are widely regarded as part of a broad state-sponsored genocide]]> 2019-11-20 21:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/366230/j0k5vv7704o6/wish/414325177 366230 https://padlet.com/366230/j0k5vv7704o6/wish/414966951  1975 to 1979 The Khmer Rougen was the name popularly given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name had originally been used in the 1950s by Norodom Sihanouk as a blanket term for the Cambodian left.
an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million Cambodians died through execution, starvation or disease. This was almost a quarter of the country’s population. Killing fields dot the country of Cambodia, with more than 20,000 mass grave sites containing more than 1.38 million bodies according to the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam). The largest of the killing fields was Choeung Ek, which sits on the outskirts of Phnom Penh and today serves as a monument to all those who died – and survived. It also serves as an educational tool to ensure history never repeats itself.

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