Cambodian Genocide
“What is rotten must be removed”
When: 1975-1979
v 1925: Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) is born into a farming family in central Cambodia
v 1949: Pol Pot moves to Paris and becomes absorbed in Marxism (communism)
v 1953: Pol Pot returns to Cambodia and joins the underground Communist movement
v 1962: Pol Pot, now leader of the Cambodian Communist Party, is forced to flee into the jungle and forms the armed resistance movement against Prince Sihanouk, known as the Khmer Rouge and wages war on Sihanouk
v 1970: Prince Sihanouk is ousted by a U.S. military coup and joins Pol Pot’s group in opposing the new military government
v 1970: U.S. invasion of Cambodian border occupied by the North Vietnamese, forces the Vietnamese deeper into the jungle where they ally themselves with the Khemer Rouge
v 1969-1973: The U.S. occasionally bombs North Vietnamese sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia, killing 150,000 Cambodian peasants, and hundreds of thousands of......
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