Horrors of the Genocide

The Khemer Rouge wanted to compose the purist most advanced form of communist. Therefore they didn't want anyone to get in the way of them doing so. They believed the human lives counted as little and didn't matter. The genocide lasted from 1975 to 1979. Some were put in rooms packed and one to two died every day in each room. Babies were ripped from their mother's arms and slaughtered. They couldn't sit without permission and could not whisper to one another. The males were whipped raw in the prisons and their fingernails would be ripped out. They had to constantly worship Pol Pot and paint pictures of him continuously. The tortures were very serious to these people and the people who survived are said to be extremely lucky.