<< Khmer Rouge "- the informal name of the extreme left currents in the communist movement in Cambodia agrarian wing, created in 1968. Their ideology was based on the Maoist (in the most rigid interpretation), the rejection of all Western and modern. The number - about 30 thousand people. Basically movement replenished teenagers 12-16 years old, who lost their parents and townspeople hated as "accomplices of the Americans."
April 17, 1975 "Khmer Rouge" captured Phnom Penh, we established a dictatorship and announced a "revolutionary experiment" to build in Cambodia "one hundred percent of a communist society." The government of Cambodia was renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
The first stage took place the eviction of all residents of the cities to the countryside, the prohibition of foreign languages and books, the elimination of commodity-money relations, the persecution of Buddhist monks and a complete ban religions that ban schools and universities, the physical destruction of the officials and soldiers of the former regime at all levels.
April 17, 1975 in Phnom Penh were evicted more than two million people, and not allowed to take anything with them. "In accordance with the order of the city were required to leave all the people. Products and things take forbidden. Those who refused to obey the order or delayed, killed and shot. This did not escape the fate of any elderly or disabled people or pregnant women, or in hospital patients. People had to go on foot, in spite of the rain or the scorching sun ... During the following they were given neither food nor drugs ... Only on the banks of the Mekong, when pnompentsev transported to remote areas of the country, killing an estimated five hundred thousand men. "
Across the country, created the higher forms of co-operatives in which Displaced people from the towns in the hardest conditions were engaged in unskilled manual labor. With primitive tools or by hand by people working 12-16 hours a day, and sometimes longer. How to tell the few who managed to survive in many areas of their daily food was only one bowl of rice for 10 people. Leaders of the Pol Pot regime created a network of spies and encourage mutual denunciations, to paralyze the will of the people to resist.
For criminal offenses (for example, torn from the commune banana tree) facing the death penalty.
Practised repression of national and social parameters (of the country emigrated ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese, Cham individual nations, former members of the ruling classes, and even have a higher education, most of the students, teachers, Buddhist monks).
Destroyed by teachers, doctors, priests, intellectuals (the intellectual is one who wore glasses, read books, know a foreign language, wearing decent clothes, particularly European-style), and also suspected of having links with the previous government, or foreign governments. It was forbidden to write and read.
Violence perpetrated by the "Khmer Rouge, indescribable:" The population of the village Sreseam was almost completely destroyed ... the soldiers rounded up the children, linked them to the chain, pushed in drenched funnel with water and buried alive ... People are customized to the edge of the trench, they were applied with a shovel or a hoe shot neck, and face down. When the liquidation subject to too many people, they are collected in groups of a few dozen people, entangled steel wire, a current is passed from the generator mounted on a bulldozer, and then pushed unconscious people in the pit and covered with earth. " Even their own wounded soldiers Pol Pot ordered to kill, not to spend money on medicines.
By ethnicity destroyed Vietnamese, Chams, by religion - Christian, Muslim and Buddhist monks.
The monks were destroyed (of the 60,000 monks live there are about 3000), Buddha statues and Buddhist books, pagodas and temples were turned into warehouses, there is not one serving 2,800 pagodas in the available old Cambodia.
From 1975 to January 1979 all 60 of thousands of Christians, priests were killed, and the laity. Churches were looted, most detonated.
Of the 20 thousand. Muslims living in the district Kammpongsiem (province of Kompong Cham), alive, not a single person. Of the 20 thousand. Kampongmeas Muslim district of the same province alive only four men left. They were destroyed and ruined all 108 mosques, some of which have been turned into pigsties, blown up or bulldozed.
Pol Pot's regime has left behind 141,848 people with disabilities, more than 200 thousand orphans, many widows who have not found their families. The survivors were deprived of power, they were unable to reproduce and were in a state of poverty and complete physical exhaustion.
It destroyed 634,522 buildings, including 5857 schools and 796 hospitals, first-aid centers and laboratories, 1,968 churches were destroyed or converted into warehouses or in prison. Pol Pot destroyed countless agricultural tools, and 1,507,416 head of cattle. "
Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea - a state that existed from 1975 until 1979 in the territory of Cambodia. The name was given to "Khmer Rouge" during their rule.
Democratic Kampuchea was recognized by the state - it recognized the UN, Albania and North Korea. Soviet Union also recognized the de facto government "of the Khmer Rouge," because he invited Pol Pot in Moscow.
Khmer Rouge mode supports external communication only with China, North Korea, Albania, Romania and France.
The Killing Fields
Killing Fields - places in Cambodia where the Khmer Rouge when government (1975-1979) had been killed and buried a large number of people - according to various estimates, from a half to three million people of a total population of 7 million.
Legal process related to political offenses, began with the fact that a person has received a warning from Angkara - de facto Government of Cambodia. Received more than two warnings sent to "re-education", which meant almost certain death. Usually "retrain" forced confessions in the "pre-revolutionary lifestyles and crimes" (among which usually consists of a business activity, or communication with foreigners), stating that they forgive Angkar "will start with a clean slate." Blank sheet lay in the fact that it recognizes sent to Tuol Sleng torture and subsequent execution.
Victims were applied various tortures, including pulling out fingernails, forced to absorb excrement and urine, hanging, and many others. In order to save ammunition people often killed with hammers, axes, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks. Executions were carried out mostly young soldiers come from rural areas.
The best-known field of death - Choeung Ek. Today, there is a Buddhist monument in memory of the victims of terror.
The exact number of those killed by the Khmer Rouge is a subject of debate - the government set overthrew the regime of Pol Pot Vietnamese declare the 3.3 million victims, whereas according to the CIA Rouge executed from 50 to 100 thousand people, but only to 1.2 million died mostly from hunger. More recent estimates give approximately 1.7 million victims.
Modern state "Khmer Rouge"
In 1998, after the death of leader Pol Pot's movement continued to exist. In 2005, the troops "Khmer Rouge" were active in the area of Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces.
July 21, 2006 died the last commander of the "Khmer Rouge" Ta Mok. A new manual movement is not known.
September 19, 2007 was arrested 80-year-old Nuon Chea, known as "Brother Number Two", he was charged with crimes against humanity. In the 50s and 60s Nuon Chea helped the dictator Pol Pot to come to power and then became the chief ideologist of the movement. A few weeks later followed by arrest and other key figures "of the Khmer Rouge," previously surrendered to the Government of Cambodia (including Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan). At the moment they are awaiting trial.
Now the remains of troops "Khmer Rouge" continue to hide in the jungle, industrial robbery and smuggling.
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This was truly a nightmare come to life. A nightmare that we never want to see again. Thank you for your post. Thank you for telling people what has happened, so that, we can stop it ever happening again.