were the Khmer rouge a bunch of peasants. how could they do this ti their own people ( or any people for that matter). are they like the Red Guard in the cultural revolution of China?
The Khmer Rouge was Cambodia's attempt at Cambodian independence, but also Communism. After coming into power, shortly after the Fall of Phnom Penh (in 1975), Pol Pot ordered the evacuation of all urban areas including Phnom Penh, etc, put all the citizens in re-education camps, sent them to these very rural areas, and turned them all into farmers. This was called Year Zero. What the Khmer Rouge is most commonly known for is the genocide against their own peoples, usually in the form of torture (beating, etc) if any of the peoples failed to comply. The most commonly known detention center was S-21, a former highschool which was then turned into a detention center where the majority of beatings happened. Only about 12-179[1] people survived S-21, over the 18,000 known inmates. It was brutal. Luckily this all ended in 1979 when Phnom Penh was officially taken over by the People's Army of Vietnam, which is when the terrible things stopped. The Khmer Rouge lasted as an insurgency between 1979 to 2000. citations: 1. This depends completely on source. (This entire writing was mostly cited from Wikipedia, so it may not all be accurate.) extra: 1. The recurring meme of Pol Pot killing people who wore glasses is actually true. Most of these deaths resulted from a policy called Moha Lout Plaoh, which was supposed to be an imitation of China's Great Leap Forward (which also caused ~10,000,000 deaths due to famine). Cambodia had yes, basically tried to rid the country of anybody intellectual, and to them glasses were a sign of being an intellectual. Weird part about this is that there are many images of Pol Pot himself wearing glasses, though this isn't surprising considering he was pretty hypocritical. 2. Pol Pot was never tried for any genocide, only placed under house arrest by the Khmer Rouge, because he killed one of his officials (Son Sen) and his family, which concerned Ta Mok that Pol Pot might turn on him as well, so Ta Mok rallied troops, informed them that Pol Pot had betrayed their movement, and placed him under house arrest, where he later died in his home from natural causes in 1998, aged 72. There is a final interview available with English captions, sometime in the 90s, with Pol Pot. 3. The meme that often associates the song "Look at The Owl" with the Khmer Rouge is actually not true. There is a false video which portrays the song having false lyrics about Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, Mao Zedong, etc. The original song itself was made long before the Khmer Rouge. The most recognized version is by Sinn Sisamouth, who died in 1976 during the Khmer Rouge's regime, though it is unclear if this death was related to the Khmer Rouge. (Yes, this was written entirely by me, so *NOT EVERYTHING MAY BE 100% ACCURATE.* If you want more accurate details, search the Khmer Rouge or Pol Pot up for yourself.)
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