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Why they get their indupentance
In November 1954, Cambodia received full independence after being a French protectorate since 1863. -
He gets inspired
Pol Pot, inspired by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of communist China, then attempted to build his own agrarian in Cambodia -
they were occupied
Cambodia was occupied by the Japanese. -
finaly
the French did allowed the Cambodians to have political parties and a constitution -
he took cotrole
King Sihanouk dismissed the government and took personal control of the country. -
they made
By a treaty of 1949 Cambodia was made semi-independent -
their Independence
They got their independence from France in, 1953 -
The secret
The US begins a secret bombing campaign against North Vietnamese forces on Cambodian soil. -
One million people were killed
Approximately one million people were killed on April,17 Most died from starvation, malnutrition and mistreated or misdiagnosed illness but 200,000 were executed as enemies of the state -
now its slavery
Millions of Cambodian city dwellers were now forced into manual slave work in rural areas so many of them are dyeing because they are only being feed a tin of rice. -
The killing failed
every two days people quickly began to die from disease, being overworked and undernourished. This is how the "killing fields" came to be known. -
just because they wont eat what they wan ttheu to
including forcing Muslims to eat pork and shooting those who refused and it didn't matter if it was rotten they had to eat it. -
No matter what they were
No matter what their profession was even if they were a teacher, tailor, civil servant or monk it was irrelevant. -
The new people to
so much for a new place to live according to the Khmer Rouge, the new people had made the decision to live in the cities, proving their loyalty to capitalism. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were automatically branded enemies of the new communist state and they were also killed. -
When it didn't work
When Pol Pot’s plan didn’t work out, he refused to blame himself or his peers or the plan itself. He decided there were enemies amongst him. Another part of the blame went to the upper class of society, who still lingered from the prior regime. Consequently, he rid his party of pro-Vietnamese members by sentencing them to death -
What is rotten must be removed.
Throughout Cambodia, deadly cleansing were performed to abolish all that was left of the old society were killed -
20,000 more
Two million people in Phnom Penh had to leave the city on foot for the countryside at gunpoint but not all of them made it all the way there around 20,000 died along the way. -
people are kill just because of how they are
Ex-soldiers were killed along with their wives and children because they are not rich and education like the doctors and other rich people and Anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot, which eventually included many Khmer Rouge leaders were killed. -
A fight is on!!!
A fight breaks out with Vietnam -
They get invaded
Vietnam invades thin is a lighting asalt -
The first one
the first bridge finally opens -
they are linked
east and west Cambodia are linked because of the bridge. -
they are re-named
The country is re-named Democratic Kampuchea in, 1976 after they got a new leader. -
he dies
The death of Pol Pot