Khmer_Rouge

Khmer Rouge Khmer Rouge is a name given to The Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers along with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops began their attack on government forces in the 1970’s and quickly gained control of over two thirds of the country. On April 17, 1975 a five-year civil war between the Khmer Rouge and the US-backed Khmer Republic of General Lon Nol ended. The Khmer Rouge established the state of Democratic Kampuchea and then set out to “purify” the “Khmer race”. The new government started by evacuating cities, abolishing banking, finance and currency, closing schools and factories, outlawing all religions, reorganizing traditional kinship systems into a communal order, and eliminating private property so completely that even personal hygiene supples were communal. Intellectuals and skilled workers were killed. As a result of the Cambodian genocide at least 1.7 million people (21% khmer, rouge, government, continued, cambodian, troops, forces, vietnamese, soldiers, pol, fighting, factional, died, communal, april, 17, workers, within, war, viet, us-backed, un-supervised, un, two, treaty, traditional, three, thirds, thai, systems, surrendered, supples, strong, stay