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Least genocidal Cambodian <br>

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**[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Kakistocracy|Pol Pot]] (1925-1998)

**[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Ethnic Nationalism|Ieng Sary]] (1925-2013)

**[[File:Psychopathy.png]] [[Ethnic Nationalism|Mam Nai]] (1934-)

'''Pol Potism''', or else known as '''Khmer Rougeism''', is a totalitarian<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3992949</ref>, economically far-left, anti-industrial<ref>https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/khmer-rouge-james-tyner-cambodia-violence</ref>, [[File:EthnoUltranat.png]] ethno-ultranationalist, anti-intellectual and highly genocidal ideology inhabiting the top left corner of the Political Compass. He was supported by [[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] during the Cambodian Civil War<ref name=":0">https://web.archive.org/web/20201217133253/https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/chinas-aid-emboldens-cambodia</ref>. He strongly hates and has killed many intellectuals<ref name=":1">https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/cambodia#:~:text=Because%20the%20Khmer%20Rouge%20placed,Pol%20Pot%27s%20reign%20of%20terror.</ref>, people with glasses<ref name=":1" />, landlords, rich people, urbanites, political dissidents, Buddhists<ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/buddhism-and-revolution-cambodia</ref>, Vietnamese people<ref>https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/cambodian-genocide</ref>, journalists, Muslims, Christians and Chinese people. He also hates currency<ref>https://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/riel-value-money-how-worlds-only-attempt-abolish-money-has-hindered-cambodias-economic-</ref><ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-khmer-rouge-abolished-money-now-they-want-ours-1291688.html</ref> and has a habit of blowing up central banks<ref>https://theacheron.medium.com/that-one-time-pol-pot-blew-up-the-central-bank-e130c23b64a0</ref>.

In 1972, the Khmer Rouge began trying to refashion all of Cambodia in the image of the poor peasantry and forced all of those living under its control to dress like poor peasants, with black clothes, and red-and-white krama scarves, and sandals made from car tires. CPK members were expected to attend "lifestyle meetings" in which they engaged in criticism and self-criticism which cultivated an atmosphere of perpetual vigilance and suspicion within the movement. In May 1973, Pol Pot ordered the collectivization of villages in the territory it controlled and over the following 6 months, 60,000 Cambodians fled from areas under Khmer Rouge control. Relations between the Khmer Rouge and the North Vietnamese continued as Pol Pot ordered the internment of many of the Khmer Rouge who had spent time in North Vietnam and were considered too sympathetic to them.

On the 5th January 1976, Democratic Kampuchea was proclaimed, a [[File:Totalitarian.png]] totalitarian one-party state led by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Cambodian population was officially known as "Kampuchean" rather than "Khmer" to avoid the ethnic specificity associated with the latter term and the Khmer language, now labeled "Kampuchean" by the government, was the only legally recognized language. The Standing Committee agreed to link several villages in a single co-operative of 500 to 1000 families, with the goal of later forming commune-sized units twice that size. Communal kitchens were also introduced so that all members of a commune ate together rather than in their individual homes. From the summer of 1976, the government ordered that children over the age of seven would live not with their parents but communally with Khmer Rouge instructors. There were no wages in Pol Pot’s Cambodia and as such has been classified as a “Slave State” by scholars and historians.

The Khmer Rouge also classified people based on their religious and ethnic backgrounds. [[File:Bud.png]] Buddhist monks were viewed as social parasites and designated a "special class" and were set to manual labor in the rural co-operatives and irrigation projects. Crackdowns on dissidents and party purges were justified on the grounds to prevent foreign infiltration from the [[File:CIA.png]] CIA, KGB or the Vietnamese. Enemies of the state were encouraged to confess to the accusations, often after torture or the threat of torture, with these confessions then being read out at party meetings. The Khmer Rouge converted a disused secondary school in Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng region into a security prison, S-21 in which between 15,000 and 20,000 people would be killed including a dozen Westerners, and only seven people survived.

It is generally estimated that 1.5 and 2 million people, approximately a quarter of Cambodia's population were killed because of the Khmer Rouge regime’s policies.