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    Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He aimed to create an agrarian communist utopia by eliminating all traces of Cambodia's past and forcing citizens into collective farms. To accomplish this, the Khmer Rouge evacuated cities, closed institutions, and murdered intellectuals and others seen as threats. Their extreme policies led to the deaths of over 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975-1979, until the Vietnamese invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime.

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    Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He aimed to create an agrarian communist utopia by eliminating all traces of Cambodia's past and forcing citizens into collective farms. To accomplish this, the Khmer Rouge evacuated cities, closed institutions, and murdered intellectuals and others seen as threats. Their extreme policies led to the deaths of over 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975-1979, until the Vietnamese invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime.

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    Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He aimed to create an agrarian communist utopia by eliminating all traces of Cambodia's past and forcing citizens into collective farms. To accomplish this, the Khmer Rouge evacuated cities, closed institutions, and murdered intellectuals and others seen as threats. Their extreme policies led to the deaths of over 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975-1979, until the Vietnamese invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime.

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    Pol Pot

    (Saloth Sar )
    Born on May 1925
    Leader of the Khmer Rouge
    At age 14, he began high
    school in Kompong Cham
    In 1949, Pol Pot obtained a
    scholarship to study radio
    electronics in Paris
    Encountered Marxism, joining
    the Cercle Marxiste and the
    French Communist Party.
    In 1953, He came back to
    Cambodia living by teaching
    geography and history at a
    private school while organizing
    resistance to Sihanouk
    What did Pol Pot want to
    do?
    Pol Pot helped assess the different groups rebelling against
    the Cambodian government
    Also authored the pamphlet Monarchy or Democracy
    Pol Pot and others became convinced that the only way
    for change in Cambodia was through revolution.

    Pol Pots Goal
    Create a Self-sufficient,
    agrarian, utopia (true
    communism). To bring
    "real socialism" to
    Cambodia

    How did Pol Pot do
    this?
    He Started Over
    = Year Zero
    ELIMINATE ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST!!
    DECONSTRUCT CAMBODIA BACK A PRIMITIVE

    How did he
    intend to pull this
    off?
    By enlisting the youth (9,10, 11 year old kids) of the country in
    his new army known as the Khmer Rouge (the young are easy
    to influence).
    By wiping the country clean of traces of the past (killing those
    with knowledge of the past).
    By controlling all aspects of the country (politically,
    economically and socially)

    By forcing all citizens into
    collectives to work according to
    age, gender and skill.
    By holding indoctrination sessions
    every evening to remind them all of
    the wonderful rewards of
    communism.
    By publicly murdering anyone that
    questioned the Khmer Rouge.

    Who are the Khmer
    Rouge?
    Khmer Rouge
    The Communist Khmer Rouge came to
    power in this small Southeast Asian nation
    in 1975 as part of the vast upheaval caused
    largely by the spilling over of the Vietnam
    War.
    The Khmer are communist followers of Pol
    Pot
    Most are young and enjoy their new power

    When the Khmer took
    over:
    The populations of Cambodia's cities were forced to evacuate the cities,
    move to the countryside and engage in agricultural labor. =
    Communes/Collectives/Cooperatives
    They closed most institutions (schools, banks,
    government buildings, churches) and vowed to
    provided for their needs in the countryside.
    They required absolute obedience from all
    Cambodians.
    Khmer Slogan

    Keeping new
    people is no benefit,
    losing them is no
    loss.
    What type of person was
    the most threatening to
    the Khmer Rouges
    power?
    Who was murdered?
    People with glasses
    People who could speak another
    language
    People whom had traveled
    Foreigners
    Counter-revolutionaries
    Educated Prisoner
    Intellectuals and
    anyone else seen as
    standing in the way of
    the new social order
    were mercilessly killed,
    while many of those
    who escaped execution
    died from overwork and
    starvation.
    S-21Prison
    (Interrogation Center)
    (a former high school)
    S-21 Prison
    This building is now a museum devoted to helping
    those impacted by these events.
    Many Cambodians travel here to try to
    understand what happened to their families and
    friends.
    http://www.downtheroad.org/Asia/Photo/2Camb
    odia_Pictures/9Tuol_Sleng_Genocidal_Crime.htm

    So what brought an end to
    all of this?
    The Vietnamese invaded and took over
    Cambodia ousting the Khmer Rouge
    from power.
    The country remained communist for
    some time but not in such extreme
    conditions.
    Pol Pot fled into the jungle and remained
    in hiding until his death.
    Pol Pot denied that he had ever done
    anything wrong and truly believed he
    held the future of Cambodia in his
    hands.
    The Cambodian
    genocide of
    1975-1979,
    eliminated
    approximately
    1.7 million
    people
    (21% of the
    country's
    population)

    A Killing Field
    According to Yale Universitys
    Cambodian Genocide Program

    There were over 200 killing sites
    9,500 mass grave pits
    Pol Pot's death in April 1998
    heralded the end of the
    brutal career of a man
    responsible for overseeing
    one of the worst genocides
    of the 20th century.
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/june97/cambodia_6-18a.html
    So what is Cambodia like
    after Pol Pot falls from
    power?
    DUMB literally!!!!
    For four years all they have
    learned about is communism
    they have been shut out from
    the rest of the world. They
    farmed and read Maos Little
    Red Book. Generations of
    people are dead.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/78988.stm
    Where and when did this
    occur?
    Cambodia
    At the end of the U.S.
    involvement in Vietnam
    1975 - 1979
    Want to see a great
    movie on this historical
    event?
    The Killing Fields

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