Cambodia Day of Remembrance
In its desire to create an agrarian, Marxist-inspired utopia, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge evacuated Cambodia’s cities, dissolved family structures and attacked political opponents, ethnic minorities, and the country’s elite. Between 740,000 and 3,314,000 people are believed to have died by execution, torture, overwork, starvation and disease as a result of the Khmer reign. The…