One of the most notable atrocious acts of genocide since 1945 was visited on its own people by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot given name Saloth Sar. The guerrilla movement which successfully came to power using the destabilization of Cambodia as its starting point right after the United State...

Cambodia In the spring of 1970 the samll nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of War. Cambodia suffered millions of casualties as the North Vietnamese communist forces engaged US supported Cambodian troops. Whose denouement lead to one of the worst bloodbaths in history. Contendi...

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge On April 17, 1976, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, a group of Cambodian Marxists, stormed the Cambodian capital of Phonm Penh, forcing Cambodia into four years of horrifying terror. They declared this time Zero Hour, the day Cambodia would enter a new utopian era and say...

THE POL POT RULE OF CAMBODIA "The worst blow fell in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge (red Khmer) guerrillas under the leadership of Pol Pot overthrew the Khmer Republic and established Democratic Kampuchea." The Khmer Rouge were, at least partially, a reaction to the loss of political powe...