Stage 5: Polarization: Cambodian Genocide
Stage 5: Polarization: Cambodian Genocide
Stage 5: Polarization: Cambodian Genocide
C A M B O D I A N G E N O C I D E
POLARIZATION
Devin Park and Seo Young SHIN
Targets of the genocide The Khmer regime built concentration camps, and they even
Khmer force murdered a tremendous number of people, forced children to work and labor.
especially who seemed educated, such as wearing glasses or
speaking foreign language. The Khmer Rouge regime also The Cambodian Genocide refers to the attempt of
frequently arrested and often executed anyone suspected of Khmer Rouge party leader Pol Pot to nationalize
connections with the former Cambodian government or and centralize the peasant farming society of
foreign governments, as well as professionals, intellectuals, Cambodia virtually overnight, in accordance with
the Buddhist monks, and ethnic minorities. the Chinese Communist agricultural model.