The Cambodian Genocide and the Khmer Rouge
The rise of Pol Pot, the Year Zero policy, and the subsequent Vietnamese invasion.
Key Questions
- 1How did the Cold War contribute to the rise of the Khmer Rouge?
- 2What were the ideological roots of the Cambodian genocide?
- 3Why did the international community remain divided over the Vietnamese intervention in 1978?
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