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U.S bombed Cambodia and killed nearly 150,000 people. This was the start of the genocide.
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Prince Sihanouk was taken out of the Cambodian military and he was replaced with Lon Nol.
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Pol Pot defeats Lon Nol and he becomes the new dictator of Cambodia.
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Pol Pot shut down newspapers, radio stations, television stations, mail, and telephones so Cambodia will have no signs of life around the world.
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Pol Pot formed "Killing fields" and forced labor to the workers. Workers suffered and usually died of discease, malnutrition, and overwork.
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Pol Pot banned religion and wiped out every religous building in Cambodia at the time. He sometimes made people go agianst there religion restrictions and break them.
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Vietnam invaded Cambodia and destroyed the Khmer Rouge government. Around two million people died in the genocide.
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Pol Pot dies of a heart attack.
