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The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million). [3] [4]
The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1.3 million people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–75).
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
Cambodian Civil War: 0.27–0.31 million [164] [165] [166] [90] 1967–1975 Khmer Rouge and allies vs. Kingdom of Cambodia, later the Khmer Republic, and allies Cambodia Goguryeo–Sui War: 0.3 million [167] [168] 598–614 Sui Dynasty vs. Goguryeo: Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula Carlist Wars: 0.3 million [169] 1833–1876 Carlists vs ...
Supporters of the Khmer Republic and the intelligentsia were killed, while the former urban population was used as forced labor in the countryside, many dying from physical abuse and malnutrition. This ultimately resulted in 1.5–2 million deaths during the Cambodian genocide. [13]
People executed by the Khmer Rouge (31 P) Pages in category "People who died in the Cambodian genocide" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Most frequently, the states and events which are studied and included in death toll estimates are the Holodomor and the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, the Great Chinese Famine and the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, and the Cambodian genocide in Democratic Kampuchea (now Cambodia). Estimates of individuals killed range ...
Between 1975 and 1979, Pot perpetrated the Cambodian genocide, in which an estimated 1.5–2 million people died—approximately one-quarter of the country's pre-genocide population. In December 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to remove the Khmer Rouge from power.