Khmer Rouge: Difference between revisions

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|goals = Turn Cambodia into an agrarian socialist state (successful until 1979)

Defeat the Vietnamese army (failed)

|crimes = [[Genocide]] Mass [[murder]] Mass starvation [[Torture]] [[War crimes]] [[Crimes against humanity]] [[Ethnic cleansing]] Forced labor [[Arson]] Unlawful detention Human rights violations [[Kidnapping]]

|crimes = [[Genocide]] Mass [[murder]] Mass starvation [[Torture]] [[War crimes]] [[Crimes against humanity]] [[Ethnic cleansing]] Forced labor [[Arson]] Unlawful detention Human rights violations [[Kidnapping]] [[Rape]]

|type of villains = Terrorists}}

{{Quote|We must purify our armed forces, our party and the masses of people in order to continue fighting the enemies in defense of Cambodian territory and the Cambodian race.|Khmer Rouge radio broadcast, May 1978.}}

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In power, the Khmer Rouge carried out a radical communist program that included isolating the country from all foreign influences, closing schools, hospitals, and some factories, abolishing banking, finance and currency, and collectivizing agriculture. Khmer Rouge theorists, developing the ideas of Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan, believed that an initial period of self-imposed economic isolation and national self-sufficiency would stimulate the rebirth of the crafts and the country's latent industrial capability.

They also orchestrated the [[Cambodian Genocide]], in which many people were expelled out of the cities into rural [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]]. There, they were forced into hard physical work, with [[torture]] and executions being frequent. The regime opposed intellectualism as well, and educated people were also sent to "killing fields" where they were brutally [[murder]]ed with pickaxes. The ban on education also lead to a lack of doctors, which caused the disease to escalate, and the unhealthy living conditions of farmers also lead to mass starvation. This culminated in roughly 2 million dying as a result of the Khmer Rouge. Most of these killings were carried out by the [[Santebal]], the Khmer Rouge's internal security branch that also served as the [[secret police]] of Democratic Kampuchea.

They also orchestrated the [[Cambodian Genocide]], in which many people were expelled out of the cities into rural [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]]. There, they were forced into hard physical work, with [[torture]] and executions being frequent. Many of the women who were imprisoned in these camps were also subjected to [[rape]] and sexual abuse by Khmer Rouge cadres. The regime opposed intellectualism as well, and educated people were also sent to "killing fields" where they were brutally [[murder]]ed with pickaxes.

The ban on education also lead to a lack of doctors, which caused the disease to escalate, and the unhealthy living conditions of farmers also lead to mass starvation. This culminated in roughly 2 million dying as a result of the Khmer Rouge. Most of these killings were carried out by the [[Santebal]], the Khmer Rouge's internal security branch that also served as the [[secret police]] of Democratic Kampuchea.

Khmer Rouge's economic policies took a similarly extreme course. Trade was officially restricted only to bartering between communes, a policy which the regime developed in order to enforce self-reliance. Banks were raided and all currency and records were destroyed by fire thus eliminating any claim to funds. After 1976, the regime reinstated discussion of export in the period after the disastrous effects of its planning began to become apparent.

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 |goals = Turn Cambodia into an agrarian socialist state (successful until 1979)<br>
 Defeat the Vietnamese army (failed)
-|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Mass starvation<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Forced labor<br>[[Arson]]<br>Unlawful detention<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Kidnapping]]
+|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Mass starvation<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Forced labor<br>[[Arson]]<br>Unlawful detention<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Rape]]
 |type of villains = Terrorists}}
 {{Quote|We must purify our armed forces, our party and the masses of people in order to continue fighting the enemies in defense of Cambodian territory and the Cambodian race.|Khmer Rouge radio broadcast, May 1978.}}
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 In power, the Khmer Rouge carried out a radical communist program that included isolating the country from all foreign influences, closing schools, hospitals, and some factories, abolishing banking, finance and currency, and collectivizing agriculture. Khmer Rouge theorists, developing the ideas of Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan, believed that an initial period of self-imposed economic isolation and national self-sufficiency would stimulate the rebirth of the crafts and the country's latent industrial capability.
-They also orchestrated the [[Cambodian Genocide]], in which many people were expelled out of the cities into rural [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]]. There, they were forced into hard physical work, with [[torture]] and executions being frequent. The regime opposed intellectualism as well, and educated people were also sent to "killing fields" where they were brutally [[murder]]ed with pickaxes. The ban on education also lead to a lack of doctors, which caused the disease to escalate, and the unhealthy living conditions of farmers also lead to mass starvation. This culminated in roughly 2 million dying as a result of the Khmer Rouge. Most of these killings were carried out by the [[Santebal]], the Khmer Rouge's internal security branch that also served as the [[secret police]] of Democratic Kampuchea.
+They also orchestrated the [[Cambodian Genocide]], in which many people were expelled out of the cities into rural [[Concentration Camp|concentration camps]]. There, they were forced into hard physical work, with [[torture]] and executions being frequent. Many of the women who were imprisoned in these camps were also subjected to [[rape]] and sexual abuse by Khmer Rouge cadres. The regime opposed intellectualism as well, and educated people were also sent to "killing fields" where they were brutally [[murder]]ed with pickaxes.
+The ban on education also lead to a lack of doctors, which caused the disease to escalate, and the unhealthy living conditions of farmers also lead to mass starvation. This culminated in roughly 2 million dying as a result of the Khmer Rouge. Most of these killings were carried out by the [[Santebal]], the Khmer Rouge's internal security branch that also served as the [[secret police]] of Democratic Kampuchea.
 Khmer Rouge's economic policies took a similarly extreme course. Trade was officially restricted only to bartering between communes, a policy which the regime developed in order to enforce self-reliance. Banks were raided and all currency and records were destroyed by fire thus eliminating any claim to funds. After 1976, the regime reinstated discussion of export in the period after the disastrous effects of its planning began to become apparent.