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The Khmer Rouge & Cambodian Genocide

The Khmer Rouge & Cambodian Genocide. Genocide ( n ) – the deliberate killing of an entire national or ethnic group of people. Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot. 1975—Saigon falls to North Vietnam Khmer Rouge rises to power next door Rename country Kampuchea

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The Khmer Rouge & Cambodian Genocide

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  1. The Khmer Rouge&Cambodian Genocide Genocide (n) – the deliberate killing of an entire national or ethnic group of people

  2. Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot • 1975—Saigon falls to North Vietnam • Khmer Rouge rises to power next door • Rename country Kampuchea • Goals: (1) Destroy all foreign influence • in Cambodia • (2) Communist Revolution • Executions & famine

  3. Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979) • Executions & famine kill ~2 million people (25% of total population) • Hundreds of thousands taken in shackles to dig their mass graves • Beaten with iron bars, tortured, enslaved, buried alive

  4. Vietnam & UN Involvement • 1979—Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia and overthrow • Pol Pot • Vietnamese occupied Cambodia until 1989 • 1991—United Nations (UN) reaches peace settlement, hold • elections • Dilemma: Put former leaders on trial for crimes against humanity? • 2007—UN/Cambodian tribunal finds evidence of “crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, homicide, torture, and religious persecution”

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