Holocaust Vs Cambodian Genocide

Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. When most people think of genocide, it is the Holocaust. There have been genocides that even today there is not much history on. Many more genocides happened during the Holocaust, but many also happened after and continue to happen today. The Holocaust targeted people of Jewish descent and people of Jewish religion. Hitler resulted in the Final Solution, which meant executing all the Jews. This plan did not get pursued thoroughly because the Jews were liberated. Before the liberation of the Jews, Hitler managed to kill 6 million over the course of 6 years. A genocide very similar to the Holocaust is the Cambodian genocide. The group responsible
This quarter of the population approximated to be 2 million people. Pol Pot managed to kill 2 million people without the United Nations or anyone noticing. Pol Pot killed these Cambodians through torture, starvation, and public execution, without anyone outside noticing the power of the Khmer Rouge Regime. This genocide was hidden so well that the government of Cambodia is still trying to find the history of it. The researchers have had difficulty finding artifacts because the Khmer Rouge took away all belongings from the Cambodians. The majority of the executions took place in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. The data that is now being found and received is about “Cambodia’s 13,000 villages... 158 prisons run by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime during 1975-1979, and 309 mass-grave sites with an estimated total of 19,000 grave pits; and 76 sites of post-1979 memorials to victims of the Khmer Rouge”(The CGP, 1994-2015). Pol Pot executed the Cambodians in the capital of Cambodia because in the mind of Pol Pot, Phnom Penh was not contaminated with the thoughts of the Vietnamese. The towns and villages around the borders of Cambodia were contaminated by the ideas of the Vietnamese and the anti-communist
The Khmer Rouge Regime took power in 1968 and did not get taken out of power until 1979 by the Vietnamese. This genocide happened when the United States were enjoying life and the US army took all soldiers out of Cambodia. During this time, no one knew that Cambodia was going through this genocide. The Khmer Rouge Regime felt the need to reduce the population of Western Cambodians because they felt that the Western Cambodians had been given wrong ideas by the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese gave the Western Cambodians the idea of not having a communist government. This idea was called “anti-communist reform” but the Khmer Rouge had other plans. The Khmer Rouge had a belief “that the citizens of Cambodia had been tainted by exposure to outside ideas, especially by the capitalist West” (The Butterfly Project). The entire objective of the Khmer Rouge was to create a government without competition where all people shared everything, this is called a Communist government. Pol Pot had this planned out in a way of systematic destruction and managed to execute 2 million people in the process. Pol Pot would have succeeded, but the Vietnamese stepped in to take