How many people were killed in the Cambodia Pol Pot?

Answer 1

The Khmer Rouge regime is remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people although some claim the toll to be as high as 3 million (from an estimated 1972 population of 7.1 million) under its regime, through execution, starvation and forced labor.

The Khmer Rouge government arrested, tortured and eventually executed anyone suspected of belonging to several categories of supposed "enemies":
* anyone with connections to the former government or with foreign governments
* professionals and intellectuals - in practice this included almost everyone with an education, or even people wearing glasses (which, in regime logic, suggested that they read a lot)
* ethnic Vietnamese, Cambodian Christians, Jews, Muslims and the Buddhist monkhood
* "economic sabotage" for which many of the former urban dwellers (who had not starved to death in the first place) were deemed to be guilty of by virtue of their lack of agricultural ability.

Answer 2

It is estimated that the Khmer Rouge exterminated about 2 million people out of a population of 8 million. They targeted Buddhist monks, Western-educated intellectuals, people who appeared intelligent, people with contacts in the West, educated people in general, the crippled and lame and ethnic minorities like Laotians and Vietnamese. A very cruel regime.