Khmer rouge 1975

Cambodian Genocide

By cjacknewitz

  • Prime Minister Lol Nol overthrows Sihanouk

    Proclaims the Khmer Republic and sends the army to fight the North Vietnamese in Cambodia

  • Khmer Rouge takes control

    The Khmer Rouge took control with the goal of turning Cambodia into a communist agrarian utopia

  • All city dwellers are forced to move to the countryside to become agricultural workers

  • Sihanouk briefly becomes head of state

  • Period: to

    Atleast 1.7 million people died

  • Khmer Rouge seizes Phnom Penh

    This completes their goal of taking over the country.
    Lol Nol is overthrown.

  • Sihanouk resigns, Khieu Samphan becomes head of state, Pol Pot is prime minister

  • Violence breaks out between Vietnam and Cambodia

  • Khmer Rouge purges East Zone

  • Vietnam takes Phnom Penh

    This begins 11 years of Vietnamese occupation, in response Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot flee to the border region with Thailand
  • Period: to

    Cambodians celebrate January 7 as liberation day from the Khmer Rouge

  • Vietnamese troops withdraw

  • A peace agreement is signed in Paris