Cambodian Genocide Flashcards

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Khmer Rouge

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Communist group in Cambodia led by Pol Pot

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Democratic Kampuchea

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Cambodia was renamed this under the rule of the Khmer Rouge

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S-21

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Prison in Cambodia where around 12,000 people were killed by the Khmer Rouge

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4
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Lon Nol

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Pro-West leader of Cambodia before Pol Pot took over

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Pol Pot

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Leader of the Khmer Rouge and Dictator of the Democratic Kampuchea from April 1975 - Jan 1979

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April 1975

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Khmer Rouge take over the rule of cambodia

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January 1979

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Communist Vietnam invades and takes over the rule of Cambodia

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