Ana Guzman
Ashley Farley Johnson
Angelica Garcia
5 th Period
 Southwest Asia
 1975-1979
 A communist group called Khmer Rouge led by leader
Pol Pot was responsible for all the mass murders taken
place in Southwest Cambodia.
 The Khmer Rouge targeted multiple different types of
groups some including:
 Intellectual educated people, professionals, monks,
religious enthusiastic, Buddhists, Muslims and
Christians
 Chinese , Vietnamese and Thai ancestry where some of
the ethnic groups he targeted.
 Pol pot based you off on how much work you did and
how good your work was, so he targeted elderly,
handicap, the ill or children because they weren't able
to work as much as others.
 One of the reasons why the mass murders in
Cambodia occurred was due to the America bombing
in 1969.
 Another the reason why the Cambodian mass murders
occurred was that Pol Pot wanted to cleanse Cambodia
of unwanted people.
 He wanted to make a fair country.
 Overall Pol Pot wanted to clean the country of all it’s
impurities.
 Pol Pot wanted a society without competition!
 He placed people in collective living arrangements and
forced them to work on farms as laborers.
 Those who didn’t follow orders were immediately
executed.
 While others did their job were killed because their
performance did not meet Pol Pots standards.
 People were divided depending on how Pol Pot felt
towards them.
 People who he trusted were called “Old citizens”
 The city dwellers were known as “New citizens”
 Other groups included the deportees, candidates and
full rights.
 Over four years Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge killed 1.7
million people!
 Huge population loss almost ¼ of the Cambodian
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citizens were killed.
Poor education system
Malnutrition
Unstable government
Extreme poverty
 There’s not much we can say about the international
communities involvement in the Cambodian mass
murders because they didn’t do anything to stop it.
 In fact they didn’t believe the Cambodians’ stories of
the killings that occurred.
 Mass murders like the one that occurred in the
1970s has NEVER happened again in Cambodia!
 In memory of all the tortured and killed innocent
people there is now a memorial in Choeung, EK
called the killing fields
 Even though no mass murders are taking place,
Cambodia still has a slow economic growth
 Cambodia is also one of the poorest 3rd world
countries. (Extreme poverty!)
 Has become a tourist site filled with about 8,000 skulls
of the killed victims in the Cambodian Mass Murders.
 It is found in Choeung, EK.
 Its nine miles (14.5 kilometers)