Dates: 1975 – 1979

Location: Cambodia

Perpetrators: Khmer Rouge
(Marxism/Maoism)

Victims: Intellectuals, professionals, monks, religious enthusiasts, Buddhist, Muslims, Christians, ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Cambodians with Chinese, Vietnamese, or Thai ancestry

Number Killed: About 2 million (25% of the total population)

Number of Refugees/IDPs: 830,000

News Articles:

• Voice of America: Cambodian Refugees in US Reflect on Failures in Resettlement
• Huffington Post: Meeting Rithy Panh in Cambodia
• Deutsche Welle: Khmer Rouge genocide in the minds of Cambodian youth
• New York Times: Under Cambodia’s New Leader, Room for Dissent Narrows
• Testimony: In The ‘Shadow’ Of Death, Stories Survive
• Testimony: A Cambodian American Helps Her Dad Process His Past As A Survivor Of Genocide

Videos:

USC Shoah Foundation: Since 1995, the Documentation Center of Cambodia has cataloged hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and thousands of photographs, mapped 189 prisons and 19,403 mass graves, and gathered extensive bibliographic, biographic, photographic, and geographic databases of information related to the genocide.

Video: Phansy Peang, survivor

(Click to watch, 0:38)