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=__Main People Involved in Cambodian Genocide __ __ET __=


===In 1976, a communist group known as the Khmer Rouge took over the country of Cambodia, led by former Prime Minister of the Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. He was born on May 19, 1928 in Prek Sbauv, Cambodia. His original name was Saloth Sar and he was born into a Chinese-Khmer farming family. Khmer is the dominant ethnic group in Cambodia, with nearly 90 percent of Cambodians practicing it. Pot was not the brightest of children, and he was stripped away of three college scholarships making returning to Cambodia his only option. Throughout his college failure, Pot became obsessed with Communism and joined various Communist groups such as the Cercle Marxiste and the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP). Here, the group took over various parts of Cambodia one by one. As more went on, the higher in charge Pot became. Eventually, these groups had formed together to take over all of Cambodia, and Pol Pot was the leader. The now leading group was the Khmer Rouge, which had control of everything. He decided to rename Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea, which stayed its name from 1975 to 1979. This group mainly attacked and killed approximately 1.7 million Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and many more ethnicities. Working with Pol Pot and later against him was Ta Mok. Born of Chinese-Khmer descent as well, Ta Mok was born on an unknown date in 1924 in Takéo Province, Cambodia. He was a smart child and became a buddhist monk when he was sixteen years old, but eventually left. === = = = =

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