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In November 1954, Cambodia received full independence after being a French protectorate since 1863.
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Pol Pot, inspired by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of communist China, then attempted to build his own agrarian in Cambodia
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Cambodia was occupied by the Japanese.
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the French did allowed the Cambodians to have political parties and a constitution
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King Sihanouk dismissed the government and took personal control of the country.
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By a treaty of 1949 Cambodia was made semi-independent
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They got their independence from France in, 1953
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The US begins a secret bombing campaign against North Vietnamese forces on Cambodian soil.
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Approximately one million people were killed on April,17 Most died from starvation, malnutrition and mistreated or misdiagnosed illness but 200,000 were executed as enemies of the state
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Millions of Cambodian city dwellers were now forced into manual slave work in rural areas so many of them are dyeing because they are only being feed a tin of rice.
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every two days people quickly began to die from disease, being overworked and undernourished. This is how the "killing fields" came to be known.
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including forcing Muslims to eat pork and shooting those who refused and it didn't matter if it was rotten they had to eat it.
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No matter what their profession was even if they were a teacher, tailor, civil servant or monk it was irrelevant.
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so much for a new place to live according to the Khmer Rouge, the new people had made the decision to live in the cities, proving their loyalty to capitalism. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were automatically branded enemies of the new communist state and they were also killed.
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When Pol Pot’s plan didn’t work out, he refused to blame himself or his peers or the plan itself. He decided there were enemies amongst him. Another part of the blame went to the upper class of society, who still lingered from the prior regime. Consequently, he rid his party of pro-Vietnamese members by sentencing them to death
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Throughout Cambodia, deadly cleansing were performed to abolish all that was left of the old society were killed
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Two million people in Phnom Penh had to leave the city on foot for the countryside at gunpoint but not all of them made it all the way there around 20,000 died along the way.
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Ex-soldiers were killed along with their wives and children because they are not rich and education like the doctors and other rich people and Anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot, which eventually included many Khmer Rouge leaders were killed.
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A fight breaks out with Vietnam
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Vietnam invades thin is a lighting asalt
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the first bridge finally opens
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east and west Cambodia are linked because of the bridge.
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The country is re-named Democratic Kampuchea in, 1976 after they got a new leader.
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The death of Pol Pot