Cambodia
During the Cambodian genocide, which lasted from 1975-1979, approximately 1.7 million – 21% of the population – people were killed.
Victims
Large numbers of members of the political opposition, town and city dwellers, the educated middle-classs and administrators, ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese, Buddhist monks, Muslims.
Perpetrators
The Khmer Rouge regime, led by Pol Pot.
Links
The Cambodian Genocide Project at Yale University
Articles
‘Justice at last for Comrade Duch’ – The Independent
‘They all had to be elimininated’ – The Independent
