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===Legal questions relating to the status of the deaths in Cambodia -- genocide, democide, or other? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia&action=edit§ion=17 <u>edit</u>]]=== While the events in Cambodia are widely considered to be a genocide or democide and referred to as such, some<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;white-space:nowrap;">Β </span>argue that the deaths in Cambodia fail to meet the definition of genocide in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide <u>Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide</u>].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Genocide#cite_note-23 <u>[23</u>]]</sup> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rosefielde <u>Steven Rosefielde</u>] states that there is "no evidence Pol Pot sought to exterminate the Khmer people, or even the Cham and religious minorities." Instead, he defines Khmer Rouge killings as "''dystopicide''": "The no-prisoners-taken pursuit of badly implemented, poorly conceived communist utopia-building."
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