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POL POT AND THE KHMER ROUGE
"KILLING FIELDS"
Between 1975 and 1979, during in these words: "Keeping you is no
the rule of Pol Pot, two million of gain. Losing you is no loss" They
Cambodia's population of seven killed everyone whom they con-
million were killed. When one sidered to be, or even suspected of
looks at the killings by Pol Pot, being, useless or harmful. At least
who dreamed of establishing a one member of every family lost
perfect Communist state, as a per- his life in these massacres.
centage of the population, then his Pol Pot, who counted human
killings were much greater than life as nothing, believed that the
those by Hitler and family stood in the way of his rad-
Stalin. Pol Pot's ical vision of socialism. He tried to
fundamental do away with the idea of the fami-
target were ly by splitting families up and
the sections obliging human beings to live in
of society communal places. The same poli-
such as doc- cy had been implemented by Stal-
tors, engi- in in Russia. First the peasants'
neers, scien- lands were taken from them, then
tists, in short small parcels of land given back,
the country's in areas deliberately scattered and
intellectuals, whom far removed from one another. The
he had killed. The order was result of this was that in order for a
even given that "everyone wear- family to work their fields which
ing glasses" should be killed. As a consisted of tiny parcels of land
result of these inhuman murders, they would have to live separate
the "killing fields," which lasted from one another.
for years, emerged.
The logic employed by the
Robert Templer, Pol Pot's Legacy of
Khmer Rouge officers to justify
Horror, The Age, April 18, 1998,
their massacres was summed up http://dithpran.org/PolPotegacy.htm