WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Khmer Rouge also used the media to support their goals of genocide. Radio Phnom Penh called on Cambodians to “exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese.” Additionally, the Khmer Rouge conducted many cross-border raids into Vietnam, where they slaughtered an estimated 30, 000 Vietnamese civilians.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Khmer Rouge was removed from power when communist Vietnam invaded in January 1979 and established a pro-Vietnamese regime in Cambodia. Many survivors fled to refugee camps in Thailand; of these, many went on to immigrate to the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lasting for four years (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide was an explosion of mass violence that saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group. The Khmer Rouge had taken power in the country following the Cambodian Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1960, a small group of Cambodians, led by Saloth Sar (later known as Pol Pot) and Nuon Chea, secretly formed the Communist Party of Kampuchea. This movement would become known as the Khmer Rouge, or “Red Khmers.”