https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by en-us 2018-02-02 13:23:22 UTC 2018-02-05 13:23:17 UTC hello@padlet.com adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227468659 Children were taken by the thousands to repurposed schools that had been turned into brutal prisons and torture camps. The children were beaten until they gave names, even though they did not know anything. They were taken one by one to be murdered in the killing fields if they did not help 99% did not survive.]]> 2018-02-02 13:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227468659 kimia_mootabar https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469104 Disabled, ill, children, and elderly were mainly targeted and killed because of their lack of abilities to do the forced amount of labor. These people were known as threats to Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge only wanted to keep those who worked and had certain abilities, and they felt the need to lose all of the "useless" people. 

]]> 2018-02-02 13:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469104 adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469652 The Khmer Rouge regime blamed all of its problems on enemy saboteurs and spies. Many people were accused of being spies, even though they were innocent, and tortured for information. They had none to give; and when pressed for names they spat out whatever came to their head first - family members or friends, who were then also abducted and killed.]]> 2018-02-02 13:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469652 emma_phillips1 https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469695 People who were Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai were discriminated against. Vietnamese were said to to be "polluting" the area and damaging Cambodia's beauty. The upper class was discriminated because they were said to be threats to the country. They gave people social classes based on wealth. Also all business owners and their families were targeted. ]]> 2018-02-02 13:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469695 facundo_montesinos https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469841 They shut down schools, hospitals, and even the military over the assumption that they were all part of the old government.]]> 2018-02-02 13:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227469841 kimia_mootabar https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227470441 Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries were killed and their churches and temples were burned. 
 ]]> 2018-02-02 13:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227470441 adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227470857 The government wanted everyone to be exactly the same. This meant that all people of a minority were taken to killing fields and executed. No one was allowed to be better or worse than another, and so everyone who was different or worse was killed.]]> 2018-02-02 13:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227470857 adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227472005 The Khmer Rouge regime invaded the capital in order to take power, and many citizens were evicted to the countryside, where they were forced to work, and where they starved and died. The elderly and sickly were also targeted, because Khmer Rouge wished for a communist society in which all contribute. This caused all citizens considered too weak to work to be killed.]]> 2018-02-02 13:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227472005 adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227473230 The educated were also especially targeted, and most people who knew at least a little about foreign countries or what Khmer Rouge was doing were slaughtered. This was because the totalitarian regime was worried they would pose a threat to the government by informing others about how terrible the government truly was.]]> 2018-02-02 13:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227473230 adam_kaufman https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227474746 2018-02-02 13:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_kaufman/o5e0w60d47by/wish/227474746