Rise of Pol Pot
Saloth Sar
The Khmer Rouge eliminated this and banned trade to create a fully agrarian society.
Money
The Khmer Rouge labeled urban residents and evacuees with this term.
New People
This prison in Phnom Penh was used for torture and forced confessions before execution.
S21 or Tuol Sleng
This country invaded Cambodia in December 1978, leading to the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
Vietnam
In 1949, Pol Pot moved to this European city where he became involved in communist politics.
Paris
This term referred to the secretive Khmer Rouge leadership that demanded absolute obedience.
Ankgar
This religious minority was targeted, with villages massacred and people forced to eat pork to prove loyalty.
Cham Muslims
To save ammunition, Khmer Rouge executioners often used these types of weapons.
Blunt objects, machetes, bamboo stakes
Phnom Penh was captured on what date?
January 7, 1979
This Cambodian communist movement, led by Pol Pot, later seized power in 1975.
Khmer Rouge
Immediately after taking power, the Khmer Rouge forced over two million people to leave this city.
Phnom Penh
These educated groups, including teachers and professionals, were targeted as threats to the revolution.
Intellectuals
Victims from S-21 were typically transported to these sites outside Phnom Penh for execution.
Killing Fields
Approximately this percentage of Cambodia’s population died under the Khmer Rouge.
25%
This ousted Cambodian leader allied with Pol Pot in 1970, boosting Khmer Rouge legitimacy.
Norodom Sihanouk
The Khmer Rouge abolished private property and forced people into these agricultural work communities.
Labour Camps
The Khmer Rouge targeted this ethnic group heavily, carrying out executions.
Vietnamese
This method of control required prisoners to admit to fabricated crimes and implicate others, expanding purges across the regime.
Forced confessions and torture.
This Cold War factor allowed the Khmer Rouge to retain Cambodia’s UN seat after losing power.
International support from the U.S. and China against Vietnam
This U.S.-backed leader was overthrown as Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in April 1975.
Lon Nol
This economic goal drove Khmer Rouge policy: cutting off foreign influence and rejecting modern technology to rely only on internal production.
Self-sufficiency
This group, originally trained and supported by U.S. forces in Vietnam, later defected to the Khmer Rouge and were subsequently viewed with suspicion by its leadership.
Khmer Krom fighters
This slogan reflected Khmer Rouge attitudes toward human life.
To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.
This head of S-21 prison became the first major Khmer Rouge leader convicted by the tribunal.
Comrade Duch