At first Pol Pot, after occupying Phnom Penh, told that the urbanites only needed to "evacuate from American bombings for 3 days".
And then the Khmer Rouge declared that Cambodia is now entering "Year Zero" and everything before this date must be eradicated.
25% of Cambodians were eventually wiped out in 4 years due to backbreaking slave labor or executions.
Once the 4 year period ended, the survivors were never the same person again, and the country was stuck in something resembling China 5 years after the Maoist Red Guard rampages by 2018.
The lesson? Yesterday, Cambodia. Tomorrow, the world.
Remember this.
At first Pol Pot, after occupying Phnom Penh, told that the urbanites only needed to "evacuate from American bombings for 3 days".
And then the Khmer Rouge declared that Cambodia is now entering "Year Zero" and everything before this date must be eradicated.
25% of Cambodians were eventually wiped out in 4 years due to backbreaking slave labor or executions.
Once the 4 year period ended, the survivors were never the same person again, and the country was stuck in something resembling China 5 years after the Maoist Red Guard rampages by 2018.
The lesson? Yesterday, Cambodia. Tomorrow, the world.