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GenoCIDE

GenoCIDE. World Issues . Pol Pot. Leader of Cambodia - 1975. “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 .

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GenoCIDE

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  1. GenoCIDE World Issues

  2. Pol Pot Leader of Cambodia - 1975

  3. “This Is Year Zero” • “Purify” Society • Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion erased • Replaced with peasant Communism.

  4. Cambodia Sealed From World. • Newspapers and television stations were shut down.

  5. Money

  6. Religion

  7. Education

  8. Parents

  9. Cities Evacuated

  10. Cities • At Phnom Penh, two million inhabitants evacuated on foot at gunpoint. • As many as 20,000 died along the way.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Overall • Resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions. • Two Million Deaths

  15. Lost boys of sudan

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