Pol Pot?

[RageAgainstTheKennedys]

who is pol pot i was listening to holiday in cambodia and they keep reapting pol pot, My dad told me he was a milatant in cambodia that slaugthered millions.

any of this true.

[RageAgainstTheKennedys]

who is pol pot i was listening to holiday in cambodia and they keep reapting pol pot, My dad told me he was a milatant in cambodia that slaugthered millions.

any of this true.

[RageAgainstTheKennedys]

who is pol pot i was listening to holiday in cambodia and they keep reapting pol pot, My dad told me he was a milatant in cambodia that slaugthered millions.

any of this true.

[Zingu]

Khmer Rouge, yes it is true, something like 1/4 of the population was slaughtered in systematic genocide (probably not one fourth, but it was a huge amount of the population). Later, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and kicked the murderous Khmer Rouge out of power. They were really a screwed up group, nothing near real Socialism.

[Zingu]

Khmer Rouge, yes it is true, something like 1/4 of the population was slaughtered in systematic genocide (probably not one fourth, but it was a huge amount of the population). Later, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and kicked the murderous Khmer Rouge out of power. They were really a screwed up group, nothing near real Socialism.

[Zingu]

Khmer Rouge, yes it is true, something like 1/4 of the population was slaughtered in systematic genocide (probably not one fourth, but it was a huge amount of the population). Later, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and kicked the murderous Khmer Rouge out of power. They were really a screwed up group, nothing near real Socialism.

[Hate Is Art]

I think the figure is close to 1,500,000 mill, not sure what that is as % of the population.

Pol Pot wasn't even close to any resemblance of Socialism, steer clear of any one who doesn't have contempt and hatred for him.

[Essential Insignificance]

There's no doubting whether Pol Pot or the Khmer Rouge's "central committee" directly from their instructions or indirectly from the lower members in the leadership -- killed a great fraction of the population of Cambodia, but the fixed quantity is still highly contestable.

The Khmer Rouge "course of action" has in the process of history become known as "Year Zero", which resulted in the "bereavement" of a huge number of Cambodians through direct actions such as mass executions, and not so direct actions, such as overburden (overwork) and malnourishment.

The "brunt" of the Khmer Rouge regimes methodically liquidation was anyone with connections to the previous administration, such as professionals, intellectuals, and the ethnic Vietnamese population.

The majority of sources to come out, thus far, specify that the regime massacred the advanced percentage of it country's inhabitants -- more then any other "establishment" has in modern times.

The lowest proportion of deaths estimates that 10% of the population of Cambodia died -- as an result of the Khmer Rouge policies. It is, generally, held that a credible estimate is somewhere between 20% to 25%.

The precise figure of people who were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge is still debated.

[Salvador Allende]

The Khmer Rouge were allied with the Chinese and Americans and were supported by them. Their genocide is estimated at 2 million. They set several policies including the policy of removing people from cities because they viewed the illiterate peasant as being pure. Think of them as you would the Puritans....they were insane fanatics. They were not Socialist and if anything were more bourgeois than even the Chinese at the time.

[refuse_resist]

Pol Pot was just another American-backed dictator.

[Essential Insignificance]

The Khmer Rouge were allied with the Chinese and Americans and were supported by them. Their genocide is estimated at 2 million. They set several policies including the policy of removing people from cities because they viewed the illiterate peasant as being pure. Think of them as you would the Puritans....they were insane fanatics. They were not Socialist and if anything were more bourgeois than even the Chinese at the time.

Like I have already said -- there are endless conjecture's and assertions "floating around" -- each no more reliable then the other -- the literal number of Cambodian's and ethic Vietnamese (who dwelled Cambodia) who died directly or indirectly as a result of the Khmer Rouge's "policies" is still a heated discussion.

The regime which succeeded the Khmer Rouge asserted that roughly 3.3 million had died, but this source is very unreliable.

The CIA, I believe, approximated that between 60,000 and 120,000 people were executed by the Khmer Rouge, but executions represented only a minority of the death toll -- the majority were a result from starvation.

Let's remember that Cambodia, like a lot (all) of third world countries (South East Asian) were stuck in the Middle Ages, and the Khmer Rouge wanted to keep it that way, like you have already said, by evacuating people from the urban areas to the rural areas (perhaps because of American bombing campaigns) -- forcing people to grow their own produce. To have an exact or even near national consensus of the population would have been near impossible, pre and post the Khmer Rouge.

The absolute number of people killed, will never be known.

[Subversive Pessimist]

Khmer Rouge, yes it is true, something like 1/4 of the population was slaughtered in systematic genocide

Not true.

They took over the country after the US had bombed the country, more then they bombed Japan during WW2 (mind you this includes Nagaski and Hiroshima). The US bombed the little infrastructure the country had and people died.

People should use their "common sense". Why would someone even bother to systematically slaughter 1/4 of its population, in about 3 years? Wouldn't that be a huge blow to the country, politically and economically?

How would they even manage to do that, considering most of the population was peasents and therefore were spread all over the country? Sure, people were killed but to say that the regime killed 1/4 of its population is bullshit.

Straight Talk on the Trial of Pol Pot explains the basics of what you need to know about what happened.


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