Cambodian genocide?!??

Question

What was the cause of the cambodian genocide?

Answer 1

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Here are a few links:

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/pol_pot.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Answer 2

The Khmer Rouge came to power due to Richard Nixon's bombings of Cambodia (during his idiotic escalation of the Vietnam War in the name of "ending" it). They were the most murderous of the communist regimes (and considering the atrocities committed by the Stalinists and Maoists, among others, that is saying something). They murdered everybody whom they considered to be "bourgeois," which included people who did not want to desert the cities to be slaves of the Khmer Rouge in the rural areas of Cambodia.

Answer 3

leftist/liberal press unceasing propaganda and conscious choice to present only bad news eroded America's will to continue the Vietnam war.

America cut and ran, leaving those who believed in and trusted America to die in N. Vietnamese reeducation camps.

With a total power vacuum in Cambodia the crazies took over, which they would never have done if the USA and the Republic of Vietnam had held firm.

Any resemblance to what the press is doing in Iraq is purely coincidental..................