The Genide Of Cambodia And The Genocide In Cambodia

The genocide in Cambodia was a result of the Khmer rouge guerrilla force that seized power over the Lon Nol government in 1975. Their leader, Pol Pot, was an admirer of Chinese communism and wanted to make Cambodia a place in which all citizens were to participate in agricultural activities and all western innovations were to be removed. Pol Pot then proposed that to create the ideal communist nation, all Cambodians must all work as labourers on collective farms, and anyone who opposed this was to be eliminated. However during this time Cambodia was involved in the Vietnam War due to the fact that the old government leader, Lon Nol, was helping the U.S.A backed South Vietnam forces to conquer North Vietnam, backed by Pol Pots’ forces. Before Pol Pots took over the Cambodian government, the Americans, already fighting in Vietnam, thought that it was ok to also invade the capitalistic Cambodia. During this time the guerrilla forces ruled by Pol Pots, were fighting a civil war against Lon Nol, who was allowing the Americans to harbour troops, airbases, barracks and weapon caches. When Pol Pots’ forces won the civil war, he started supporting the North Vietnamese army. Thus Pol Pots showed his true anger towards the capitalistic countries and passion for communism.

Pol Pot’s aims were to make a nation in which everything would be done in a non-western way, e.g. no industrialised jobs and no urbanised areas. He wanted his nation of Cambodia to be started from fresh, from a year 0, and create the strongest agricultural nation and base the country on Mao’s Chinese communism. He aimed to “sanitize” Cambodia from the idea of capitalism and use all of the civilians as forced labourers on collective farms and to make everybody equal as there...

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...y standard of living in Cambodian and there were very little city dwellers, thus forcing all the farmers that had had their farms bombed and thus causing the rise in hatred towards the U.S.A and their ideals however due to the fact that there were only limited amounts of reasons on how to explain the reason of committing genocide due to the fact of the U.S.A bombings on Cambodia and Countless more reasons as to why for Pol Pot to cause this felony to show his commitment towards the idea of Mao’s Chinese communism and to enforce and control his power on Cambodia

Therefore the genocide in Cambodia was caused by the fact that Pol Pot was sick and tired of the ruling government and wanted to express his true passion for communism and to show the people of his country that he was not to be overruled without having to face extreme consequences of starvation and execution