Cambodian Genocide facts

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Killing Fields, a movie about the Cambodian Genocide, starred Haing Ngor, an actual genocide survivor. Co-star John Malkovich defended Ngor's lack of prior acting experience, saying he had to be a pretty good actor to survive the Khmer Rouge. Ngor went on to win an Oscar for his performance.

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The film "The Killing Fields" cast a real life survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. Hang S. Ngor survived three terms in Cambodian Prison camp by eating insects. He went on to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. His fate ended by being murdered my an LA street gang in 1996.

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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what historical events led to the cambodian genocide. Here are 12 of the best facts about Cambodian Genocide Documentary and Cambodian Genocide Killing Fields I managed to collect.

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1. A doctor named Haing S. Ngor survived the Cambodian Genocide by concealing his education, profession, and the fact he wore glasses. With no acting experience, he went on to star in The Killing Fields and won an Oscar. He was murdered in 1996 for reasons that are still unclear.

2. Cambodian rock of the 1960s and 1970s was a thriving and prolific music scene, but was abruptly crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists in 1975, and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed during the ensuing Cambodian genocide.

3. The Cambodian genocide in the 1970s which lead to the death of 25% of the population.

4. Tuol Sleng, or Security Prison 21. During the Cambodian Genocide, an estimated 17,000 people passed through this one prison. There were only seven confirmed survivors.

5. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retained their UN seat until 1982, this was after the torture and genocide of an estimated 2-3 million people in their native Cambodia. Western forces refused to recognise the new Cambodian government becuase the country had been liberated by Vietnamese forces.

6. In 1978, the Cambodian government let three Western journalists into the country. Two sought to investigate the ongoing genocide, while the other was a Khmer Rouge sympathizer. For no known reason, the Cambodian government had the sympathizing reporter killed, yet spared the other two.

7. Pol Pot, the man responsible for the Cambodian genocide, was a devoted listener of 'Voice of America', and probably found out that he was being turned into an international tribunal by listening to the show

8. During the massacre of over a million Khmer people (up to 3 million) in one of the worst genocides in history, Henry Kissinger said, "You should tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won't let that stand in our way."

9. The Cambodian Genocide, in which a quarter of the Cambodian population was massacred by Pol Pot, wasn’t ended by the UK, USA, or even China - but by good guy Vietnam