genocide world issues. leader of cambodia - 1975 pol pot
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“This Is Year Zero” “Purify” Society Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion erased Replaced with peasant Communism.TRANSCRIPT
GENOCIDEWorld Issues
Leader of Cambodia - 1975
Pol Pot
“This Is Year Zero” “Purify” Society Capitalism,
Western culture, city life, religion erased
Replaced with peasant Communism.
Cambodia Sealed From World. Newspapers and television stations were shut down.
Money
Religion
Education
Parents
Cities Evacuated
Cities At Phnom Penh,
two million inhabitants evacuated on foot at gunpoint.
As many as 20,000 died along the way.
Killing Fields Forced into slave
labor Soon began dying
from overwork, malnutrition and disease.
Diet of one tin of rice per person every two days.
Workdays Workdays in the fields began around 4
a.m. and lasted until 10 p.m.,
Only two rest periods allowed during the 18 hour day.
Every tenth day was a day of rest. Three days off during the Khmer New Year festival.
Young People Unsupervised
gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden.
Young people placed in communals.
Later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of unwilling couples.
Overall Resulted in the
deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.
Two Million Deaths
LOST BOYS OF SUDAN