Editing Cambodian Genocide (section)

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|location=Cambodia (Democratic Kampuchea)
|crimes=[[Genocide]]<br>[[Mass murder]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Slavery]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Mutilation<br>Mass starvation<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>Unlawful mass detention<br>Human Rights Violations<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]
|perpetrator= [[Khmer Rouge]] ([[Communist Party of Kampuchea]])<br>[[Santebal]]
|name=Evil Acts 
|image=Cambodian_Genocide.jpg
|date=April 17, 1975 - January 7, 1979
|motive = To transform Cambodia into the perfect agrarian Communist state (failed)
}}{{Quote|In April 1998 one of history's most reviled mass murderers died. This was a leader who showed his people no mercy. As ruler of Cambodia Pol Pot was responsible for killing 2 million people. That's a quarter of the country's population. During his four-year reign Pol Pot tortured and starved the Cambodians to death. Men, women, children, and babies were often brutally clubbed to death with hammers and buried alive. As the architect of a brutal social experiment driven by racial and political hatred Pol Pot's regime left behind a tragic legacy of misery and mass graves.|Introduction to a Discovery Channel documentary about Pol Pot.}}
The '''Cambodian Genocide''' was a [[genocide]] perpetrated by the [[Khmer Rouge]] (under the leadership of [[Pol Pot]]) during their rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 (during which the country was known as Democratic Kampuchea.) It resulted in the deaths of between 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, the 24 percent of Cambodia’s 1975 population.

The Khmer Rouge wanted to turn the country into a socialist agrarian republic, founded on the policies of ultra-Maoism. In order to fulfill their goals, the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and forced Cambodians to relocate to labor camps in the countryside, where mass executions, forced labor, physical abuse, malnutrition, and disease were prevalent. This resulted in the death of approximately 25 percent of Cambodia's total population. Approximately 20,000 people passed through the Tuol Sleng Centre (also known as Security Prison S-21), one of the 196 prisons operated by the Khmer Rouge, and only 7 adults survived. The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were executed (often with pickaxes in order to save bullets) and buried in mass graves. The abduction and indoctrination of children were widespread, and many were persuaded or forced to commit numerous [[crimes against humanity]]. The genocide triggered the second outflow of refugees, many of whom escaped to neighboring Vietnam and, to a lesser extent, Thailand. The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia ended the genocide by defeating the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

The Cambodian Genocide is considered to be one of the worst proxy conflicts of the [[Cold War]], along with the [[Vietnam War]] and the [[Korean War]]. It is also considered to be one of the deadliest genocides in world history; according to most contemporary estimates, only [[the Holocaust]] and [[the Holodomor]] have higher confirmed death tolls.