Pol Pot And The Khmer Rouge

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Today, December of 1978, the Vietnamese have sent more than 60,000 troops, along with artillery units, across the border. The struggles between the Cambodians and Vietnamese seem to intensify, especially under the leadership of the Khmer Rouge. This rule has been going on for quite a few years. Pol Pot wasn’t the Prime Minister till 1976, a full year after his takeover.
On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot seized the capital city of Cambodia, by leading the Communist forces of the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge, the communist party of Kampuchea in Cambodia, were targeting many Cambodians.
Pol Pot believes he is “bettering” the society of the Cambodian people by creating a place of excessive peasant communism.
One report estimates that 1.7 million people