The Holocaust: Children In The Cambodian Genocide

When most people hear of a genocide they think of the Holocaust, which led to the death of 11 million people because of their religion, race, or sexuality to make the “perfect human race”. The Holocaust was without a doubt the most horrific genocide in the human race, with most of it’s victims being children. The Holocaust wasn’t the only genocide with mass minor death however, and many people over look the other genocide that claimed the lives of many children. In fact. it is so isolated from the minds of people, the U.S. doesn't recognize it as a genocide. It is the Cambodian Genocide, which claimed the lives of 2,400,000 people; over half of those victims were children. Children in the genocide had a rough childhood because they didn't get to play and learn, they were always facing death, and some of them were forced to be child soldiers. The Cambodian Genocide came to be when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the asian equivalent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi, decided that the citizens of Cambodia were becoming too advanced. Cambodia had been in a golden age while under the direction of the
Childhood is supposed to be about playing and learning, making friends, and being innocent. These children has that taken from them. The place where most children would have been able to make friends and play and learn was school, but their schools were tuned into work camps. Their classrooms, where they would play and learn and make memories that they could cherish forever, were turned into torture chambers were they had their tongues cut of and other thing did to them and were left to bleed out and die. Some of them, if they didn't die, they died soon after liberation due to lack of help and medicine coming from other countries. If they did make it past the work camps and liberation, they were left with nightmares. Nightmares of losing their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and