Cambodia Genocide
By: Brendan Anderson and Bryce Hartzel
General Info
 Located in SouthEast Asia
 Borders Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
 Cambodia is the orange country
Conflict
 Khmer Rouge wanted to reconstruct Cambodia based on the Communist
model of China
 Wanted a self-sustaining farm based society
 Khmer Rouge thought of educated people as threats and murdered them
 Religion was banned
 Religious officials were killed
Conflict pt. 2
 Could be killed for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing,
or crying
 No personal relationships or affection
 If you escaped murder, you became an unpaid laborer
 Laborers worked for food
Dates
 Lasted from 1975-1979
 April 17,1975: Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia’s capital
 January 7,1979: Vietnamese overtake capital
 1990: Vietnamese troops withdraw from
Cambodia
 1999: end of the Khmer Rouge after
death of leader
People
 Khmer Rouge
 Vietnamese defectors
 Cambodian citizens
 Minority groups including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai
End Result
 The Khmer Rouge was overthrown
 Those who survived fled to Thailand
 Most of the Khmer Rouge members died before they could be put to trial
 Those who lived were prosecuted by the Extraordinary Chambers in the
Courts of Cambodia
Stats
 1.5 million- 3 million people died
 About 25% of the population was killed
 People who fled to Thailand spread diseases that killed an additional
650,000 people
 The Khmer Rouge was in control for 4 years
Pledge
 We pledge to do our best to create awareness and also provide support
for genocide victims.
Sources
 http://math.nie.edu.sg/atcm/map01.htm
 http://www.ushmm.org/confrontgenocide/cases/cambodia/introduction/cambodia-1975
 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cambodia-khmer-rouges-year-zero-genocidegraphic-images-1460153
 http://www.kambodja.name/page10/page18/index.html
 http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia1.html
 http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/cambodia.khmer.rouge.
timeline/
 http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodiangenocide