Khmer Rouge Essay

Like all sad murder stories, this one starts out with an evil dictator who lacks heart or emotion. Many peasants, soldiers, and foreigners died in 1975-1979 because of Pol Pot's guerilla war group, Khmer Rouge which was responsible for a horrifying twenty-five percent decrease in Columbia's population.
The horror began to unravel in 1962, when Pol Pot became the leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to escape into the jungle by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the leader of Cambodia. Pol Pot then formed an armed resistance movement against Cambodia's government, known as Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians); which would later on be known for its guerrilla war attacks against Sihanouk's government and the people of Cambodia.
In 1970, Prince Sihanouk was thrown out of office, not by Pol Pot, but instead due to an U.S. backed military coup. Reluctant Prince Sihanouk then joined with Pol Pot in opposing Cambodia's new military government. Throughout 1969 to 1973, the U...