Khieu Samphan, the Khmer Rouge's former head of state, was taken out from Phnom Penh Hospital where he was being treated for a stroke, and arrested by the UN-backed genocide tribunal.Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering based on an insane, impractical, and inhumane ideology in order to create the ideal communist society. During the regime's 1975-79 rule, peasants were classified as 'old people' and viewed as simple, uneducated, hard-working and not prone to exploiting others, where others, for examples, city dwellers and educated people were regarded as 'new people' and seen as the root of capitalist evil.
17 April 1975 was set as Year Zero for the new Cambodia, whoever was suspected as not fit to the ideology was arrested, tortured and eventually executed, causing an estimated of 1.5 million deaths during the four short years of cruel and insane ruling.
In the effort of building an ideal, simple and humane society, Pol Pot and his party exercised a most inhumane exploitation to his own people, when knowledge was wrongly perceived in the hands of people with abusive power, the result could be disastrous and horrible.
In the effort of building an ideal, simple and humane society, Pol Pot and his party exercised a most inhumane exploitation to his own people, when knowledge was wrongly perceived in the hands of people with abusive power, the result could be disastrous and horrible.
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