4. Background: Vietnam Civil war broke out in Vietnam in 1954 North – Viet Kong, communist, supported by China, hid in South Vietnam South – supported by USA, pro-western ideals

5. Background: Vietnam 1964 –America enters the Vietnam war where they stayed out of Cambodia where Viet King hid

6. Background: Vietnam In 1970 Prince Sihanouk lost power to Lon nol and joined forces with a guerilla organization known as the Khmer Rouge They fought Lon nol and civil war erupted

7. Background: Vietnam Then America felt free to bomb, using napalm and dart cluster-bombs, for four years killing up to750,000 Cambodians

8. Background: Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement prince Sihanouk joined Lead by Pol Pot – a communist Over threw Lon nol in 1975

9. Classifications the targets were Vietnamese, Chinese, Muslims, and Buddhist monks, people residing in urbanized areas and cities, upper class

10. Symbolization Blue scarf for the people of the Eastern part of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia

11. Dehumanization The Khmer slogan: "To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss

12. Organization Socialist program to reconstruct the way Cambodia was

13. Polarization Cities were raided and people relocated to communal farms. Most people were left to starve, dehydrate or work to death

14. Preparation The government attempted to suppress the communist and Vietnamese presence

15. Extermination The population was put to work as laborers in one federation of collective farms Anyone in opposition was killed

16. Denial No on has been charged in the killings

20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IbmjU0U54k