Human Rights Horrors: the Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge was a communist regime which ruled the southeast asian country of Cambodia (next door to Vietnam) for the second half of the 1970s. The Khmer Rouge commited some of the most atrocious examples of human rights violations that the world has ever seen.
Among countless other violations, the regime forced relocation through the emptying out of urban centers (bringing the workers away from the evils of the city and into the country for agricultural ventures), commited genocide against not only specific ethnic groups but also people perceived to be "intellectuals" (the government even went so far as to round up and kill any people they could find wearing glasses) and people of any type of religion (buddhist, christian, whatever).
It's a little slice of 20th century history that is horrifying and often overlooked.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
Among countless other violations, the regime forced relocation through the emptying out of urban centers (bringing the workers away from the evils of the city and into the country for agricultural ventures), commited genocide against not only specific ethnic groups but also people perceived to be "intellectuals" (the government even went so far as to round up and kill any people they could find wearing glasses) and people of any type of religion (buddhist, christian, whatever).
It's a little slice of 20th century history that is horrifying and often overlooked.
read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
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