By: Lara Lilly & Brandyn Shaulis Genocide in Cambodia By: Lara Lilly & Brandyn Shaulis

Because of turmoil in North and South Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge started gain power over the reining Cambodian Army. Pol Pot the leader of Khmer Rouge used the turmoil to his advantage to defeat Lon Nol’s forces. Pol Pot brought hope to the turmoil of Cambodia How it all Started

The Khmer Rouge was a group that went against the Pro-West group led by Lon Nol The Khmer Rouge decided to punish all of the people who had been “tainted” by the United States The Khmer Rouge harshly punished every Cambodian who was seen to be “tainted” The Khmer Rouge

The Tree you see in this picture was used for horrific actions One of these horrific actions was smashing baby’s heads against this tree to kill them. The killing Tree

The number of killing fields is not known but the number of deaths for the single genocide was 3,314,768 deaths Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, believed he never did anything wrong because he was “helping his country men” Many killing fields in Cambodia have still not been found The killing Fields

The beginning of the end Pol Pot started to lose his mind late into the end of his rein of terror When his mind began to go so did he rain of the country of Cambodia People started to force him out of office The beginning of the end

People were seen as animals, and were slaughtered as such Killing

This is an infamous photo This is an infamous photo. It depicts the Khmer Rouge and their terrible rein of power over Cambodia.

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