The Khmer Rouge was the genocidal “Maoist” government in Cambodia. Mao supported them against Vietnam. At the same time, Pol pot would later confess he never read communist theory. The Khmer Rouge was also USA-backed
The Khmer Rouge was the genocidal “Maoist” government in Cambodia. Mao supported them against Vietnam. At the same time, Pol pot would later confess he never read communist theory. The Khmer Rouge was also USA-backed
While that’s true, it doesn’t really answer the question.
it was a result of sino soviet split, the USSR was backing Vietnam, and china was backing Cambodia, everyone wanted a united communist Indochina, but china wanted one allied to them while the USSR viewed it as their last gateway into southeast asia. The khmer rouge evacuated the major cities and made everyone be amish or whatever. The Us then took those numbers of evacuated cities and called them a death toll. so the capitol city had about 1 million people in it and was mostly abandoned afterwards so pol pot kills 1 million makes headlines. Nobody knows how many cambodians were killed in Nixons secret bombing raids of them, yet somehow we have exact numbers of how many people were killed in pol pot jungle prisons. But it really doesn’t matter because mao killed 1 billion chinese people for fun remember? So why is this question even being asked?