Cambodian genocide: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date	1975 - 1979
Location	Cambodia
Participants	Khmer Rouge
Context	Cold War • Vietnam War

Photos

Scene from Tuol Sleng prison (S-21)

Fall of Phnom Penh, April 17, 1975

Religious desecration under the Khmer Rouge

Mass killing under the Khmer Rouge

Killing tree, Choeung Ek, outside Phnom Penh

Faces of the victims of Tuol Sleng prison (S-21)

Excavated human remains from the killing fields at Choeung Ek, 1983

Nuon Chea at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

Education and memory at Anlong Veng

Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

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Topics

forced labour The Killing Fields First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Key People

Pol Pot, 1980

Pol Pot

Cambodian political leader