Cambodian Genocide

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Chapters: Cambodian Genocide victims, Khmer Rouge, The Killing Fields, Choeung Ek, Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia, Cambodian¿Vietnamese War, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khao-I-Dang, Arn Chorn-Pond, Sa Kaeo Refugee Camp, Nong Chan Refugee Camp, Sisowath Sirik Matak, Long Boret, Aki Ra, Alive In The Killing Fields, John Dawson Dewhirst, National Army of Democratic Kampuchea, Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, Anlong Veng District, Vann Nath, Narath Tan, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, Phnom Malai, Patriotic and Democratic Front of the Great National Union of Kampuchea, Documentation Center of Cambodia, Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia, Joseph Chhmar Salas, Hang Thun Hak, Chum Mey, Saloth Chhay, Enemies of the People, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodian National Unity Party, Denise Affonço, Agrarian socialism, First They Killed My Father, The Conscience of Nhem En, Santebal, Democratic National Union Movement, Year Zero, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, Hope Stevens, Khmer National Solidarity Party, Higher Institute of National Defence, Ba Chuc Massacre, Chankiri Tree, New People, Communist Youth League of Kampuchea, Deacon of Death, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, Kampuchean Revolutionary Army. Excerpt: The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ) was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. The regime led by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was known as the Democratic Kampuchea. This organization is remembered primarily for its policy of social engineering, which resulted in genocide. Its attempts at agricultural reform led to widespread famine, while its insistence on absolute self-sufficiency, even in the supply of medicine, led to the deaths of thousands from treatable diseases (such as malaria). Brutal and arbitrary executions and torture carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1976 and 1978, are considered to have constituted a genocide. The clandestine Communist Party of Kampuchea itself constituted the secret leadership of the Khmer Rouge, as its official name was known only to a few insiders: it called itself the Angkar (the organization) and only announced officially its existence in 1977, almost two years after the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, the organization's remaining guerrilla forces became known as the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea. In 1981 the party itself was dissolved, and substituted by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, which was succeeded in the 1993¿1994 period by the Cambodian National Unity Party. In 1996 the Democratic National Union Movement of Ieng Sary split from the Khmer Rouge while in 1997 the Khmer National Solidarity Party was founded as a successor to the CNUP by Khieu Samphan. After taking power, the Khmer Rouge leadership renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea. The Khmer Rouge subjected Cambodia to a radical social reform process that was aimed at creating a purely agrarian-based Communist society. The city-dwellers were deported to the countryside, where they were combin