Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge


April 17, 1975 Cambodian unforgettable day. On this day, the Khmer Rouge Bandaojing the Lon Nol government, the Khmer Rouge began the "first year" (Year Zero). Khmer Rouge soldiers loaded guns, forced urban residents "new faces" to transform the countryside. Several days and nights, all people in Phnom Penh were forced to leave their ancestral home and give up all the property, become downright proletariat.


September 1975. Cambodian Khmer Rouge leaders should request the return to Phnom Penh. January 5, 1976, promulgation of the new constitution, changing the country known as Democratic Kampuchea, also announced the abolition of monarchy.


Khmer Rouge that the city is the ugly symbol of capitalism. It will corrupt cadres and the masses. To build an ideal society, we must destroy cities. Khmer Rouge announced in 10 to 15 years modernizing the country. Cambodian put into an agricultural society, it will begin to promote the original implementation in the liberated areas of the cooperative system. And the abolition of the currency market, DAMA, and full implementation of supply constraints. Collective labor men, women and children in public canteens collective meals. Khmer Rouge prohibits private ownership of property, the abolition of the family, or even marriage by the organization, married couples to live separately. Prohibit people from engaging in religious activities, ordered monks to flee. As knowledge of the crime, the absence of formal schools, banned books and publications. People can not flow freely. National Post is no telecommunications, no hospitals.


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