This page will discuss the world powers at the time of the Cambodian genocide. This will show that even thought these mass killings are going on the world turns a blind eye towards these horrors.
It is even more shocking that the U.S was supplying the Khmer Rough with supplies because they shared a common enemy of the Vietnamese. |
The united nationsThe United Nations are a intergovernmental organization. Their goal is to promote international cooperation. The United Nations replaced the league of nations.
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vietnam Vietnam was conquested by France in 1885. Vietnam declared independence after World War II. Then was divided into the communist North and anti-communist South. The US economic and military aid to South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under communist rule.
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Khmer rougeA communist group that lead Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The Khmer Rouge wanted a socially engineer a classless peasant society. When doing so killing 1.7 million Cambodians
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