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Geneva Conference: French withdraw from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
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Pol Pot becomes the new communist leader of Cambodia because the original leader Tou Samouth went missing but Pol Pot was making plans for a rebellion.
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Pol Pot creates a group of Cambodian communists and calls them "Khmer Rouge" they rebelled against Sihanouk in northwest Cambodia. And this cause government repression. Then Vietnamese bombardment of Cambodia began.
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Massive starvation in parts of northwest Cambodia, all urban dwellers were deported.
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The khmer rouge group started to kill all dissident communists that weren't on their side.
