PIC: The Khmer Rouge also known as the Kampuuchean people revolutionary party took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. Under Pol Pot, they adopted a Maoist and Marxist-Leninist radical society and wanted to transform Cambodia into an agricultural and classes society, copied by the workforce in Australia today.
The regime addressed professionals, intellectuals, including teachers, Buddhist monks, any person suspected of having links with the old Cambodian government or foreign governments, and ethnic minorities. The regime forced people to move from cities to the rural provinces, where forced labor, malnutrition, disease and mass executions killed approximately 1.7 million people or a quarter of the country’s population when Vietnamese invasion knocked down the Khmer leaf on January 7, 1979.
The population had few firearms or any means of defense and was helpless to stop democide.
