Real Refugees Fleeing Real Oppression - When "Refugees" were Refugees

Survivors of the genocidal Khmer Rouge recall stories from their
childhood, of an evil Tyrannical Dictatorship that enslaved the
Cambodian people in the late 1970s.Show more

Clipped from the full length movie The Donut King (2020).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10214496/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520donut%2520king

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The Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge was a brutal regime that ruled Cambodia, under the leadership
of Marxist dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot’s attempts to create
a Cambodian “master race” through social engineering ultimately led to the
deaths of more than 2 million people in the Southeast Asian country.

Those killed were either executed as enemies of the regime, or died from
starvation, disease or overwork. Historically, this period—as shown in the
film The Killing Fields—has come to be known as the Cambodian Genocide.

Pol Pot

Although Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge didn’t come to power until the mid-1970s,
the roots of their takeover can be traced to the 1960s, when a communist
insurgency first became active in Cambodia, which was then ruled by a monarch.

Throughout the 1960s, the Khmer Rouge operated as the armed wing of the
Communist Party of Kampuchea, the name the party used for Cambodia. Operating
primarily in remote jungle and mountain areas in the northeast of the country,
near its border with Vietnam, which at the time was embroiled in its own civil
war, the Khmer Rouge did not have popular support across Cambodia, particularly
in the cities, including the capital Phnom Penh.

However, after a 1970 military coup led to the ouster of Cambodia’s ruling
monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge decided to join forces with
the deposed leader and form a political coalition. As the monarch had been
popular among city-dwelling Cambodians, the Khmer Rouge began to glean more
and more support.