cambodian genocide (khmer rouge)

The Cambodian genocide, also known as the Khmer Rouge regime, refers to a period of severe mass killings and systematic extermination carried out by the Khmer Rouge communist party in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge aimed to create an agrarian utopia by forcibly evacuating cities and implementing radical policies that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.2 million people through execution, forced labor, starvation, and disease. This genocide had a devastating impact on Cambodian society, leaving a lasting scar on the nation's history.

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