For the last three decades, Cambodia has been consumed by warfare, genocide, slave labor, forced marches, hunger, disease, as well as civil conflict. Approximately the size of Missouri, surrounded by Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, Cambodia had a population of possibly 7 to 8 million in 1975 when the ominous Khmer Rouge guerrillas swept into Phnom Penh and began what they called the purification campaign which was “the centerpiece of their extremist agrarian revolution.” Four years later, the Khmer Rouge was pushed back into the jungle, leaving behind their legacy: 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians dead in what would become known to the world as "the Killing Fields." Twenty percent of the population wipe out. In America that would be 50 to 60 million people.
Most people say that in regards to what occurred in Cambodia cannot be called a genocide because basically, it was Khmers killing other Khmers, not someone trying to destroy a different "national, racial, ethnical or religious......
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