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A study by French demographer Marek Sliwinski calculated slightly fewer than 2 million unnatural deaths under the Khmer Rouge out of a 1975 Cambodian population of 7.8 million; 33.5% of Cambodian men died under the Khmer Rouge compared to 15.7% of Cambodian women. [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).
The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. [140] 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 rampant.
The U.S. may have dropped a tonnage of bombs on Cambodia nearly equal to all the bombs dropped by the U.S. in World War II. Estimates of Cambodian military and civilian deaths resulting from the 1969-1973 bombing range from 40,000 to more than 150,000. [1] [2] [3] The impact of the Khmer Rouge on the rural population was severe.
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.
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.
Cambodian Civil War: 0.27–0.31 million [157] [158] [159] 1967–1975 Khmer Rouge and allies vs. Kingdom of Cambodia, later the Khmer Republic, and allies Cambodia Goguryeo–Sui War: 0.3 million [160] [161] 598–614 Sui Dynasty vs. Goguryeo: Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula Carlist Wars: 0.3 million [162] 1833–1876 Carlists vs. Liberals ...
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]