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__World Reaction to Cambodia Genocide__
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====//How did the world feel toward this mass killing? Did they react or disregard the hundreds of thousands of senseless killings? Did the citizens of these countries agree with the governments feelings?// ====



 Everyone is familiar with the Darfur Genocide, and the Jewish Holocaust, but does the wolrd remember the genocide of Cambodia? As stated in "Cambodia: Millions Forced From Their Cities," the "mass murder was largely ignored in the West." America mainly ignored this killing because we had just come out of the Vietnam war, and didn't have the funds or the men to go back to Cambodia.

 Little was done to try and intervene in the Cambodia killings. The main reason for this was because it was almost impossible to access information about this country at the time, because of its harsh government. Besides the U.S. not getting involved because of recent war withdrawal, other governments were focused on what was going on in their country. Whether it was the rise or fall of communism or capitalism, pretty much every government was preoccupied. Some groups of people tried smuggling people out of the country, but that was almost all that was done.


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