Submitted by nasty87nate on December 5, 2007

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Cambodia: Did Genocide Occur

Cambodia: Did Genocide Occur?
One million seven hundred thousand dead, a country left scarred for decades and a world still baffled weather or not to call it genocide. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group is what defines the term genocide (www.dictionary.com), yet what events in history are classified is widely debated. Based on many personal accounts and accurate recordings of history it can be proven that the massacres that occurred from 1975 to 1979 under Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia was genocide.
From the spring of 1970 to 1975 Cambodia was engaged in a civil war Lon Nol had gained power and was trying to...

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