April 17, 1975: Khmer Rouge Captures Phnom Penh and Initiates Cambodia's Dark Genocide Era

April 17, 1975: Khmer Rouge Seized Phnom Penh, Triggering Cambodia Genocide | Firstpost Rewind | N18G

On this day in 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh. Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge wanted to create a communist-agrarian utopia. Over the next four years, nearly 2 million Cambodians would die from starvation, torture and mass killings. The regime’s reign of terror ended in 1979, when Vietnam invaded Cambodia.

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