The Khmer Rouge's terror regime. The Khmer Rouge wanted to re-educate the Cambodian population into a new, invincible people, whose achievements would surpass even those of the Khmer of Angkor times. According to this ideology, all people would need to be made equal. Everyone should become a farmer, without knowledge, belief, property, or personal needs. They tried to implement this idea through inhuman violence, total surveillance, and terror. They “cleansed” the so called „new people“; they killed teachers, doctors, civil servants, scientists, monks, and merchants, educated people in general. More than 2 million people died during this reign of terror. They were brutally murdered, tortured, they starved or died from exhaustion on the “Killing Fields”.

 

 

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