GENOCIDE World Issues

Leader of Cambodia Pol Pot

“This Is Year Zero”  “Purify” Society  Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion erased  Replaced with peasant Communism.

Cambodia Sealed From World.  Newspapers and television stations were shut down.

Money

Religion

Education

Parents

Cities Evacuated

Cities  At Phnom Penh, two million inhabitants evacuated on foot at gunpoint.  As many as 20,000 died along the way.

Killing Fields  Forced into slave labor  Soon began dying from overwork, malnutrition and disease.  Diet of one tin of rice per person every two days.

Workdays  Workdays in the fields began around 4 a.m. and lasted until 10 p.m.,  Only two rest periods allowed during the 18 hour day.  Every tenth day was a day of rest. Three days off during the Khmer New Year festival.

Young People  Unsupervised gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden.  Young people placed in communals.  Later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of unwilling couples.

Overall  Resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.  Two Million Deaths

LOST BOYS OF SUDAN