Pol Plot wanted to create a new society based on his idea of a new rural utopia. Khmer Rouge abolished money and private property, banned religion they also forced city dwellers into the country side to cultivate the fields Killing Fields. An estimated 1.7 million people died (20%) many where members of the educated middle class.
Cambodia was a French Colony ( part of Indochina) 1863-1953. After they became an independent nation , but soon becomes entangled in the Vietnam War. In 1965 King Sihanouk broke off relations with United States and allows North Vietnamese to set up bases in order to conduct raids into South Vietnam.
In 1969, USA starts a secret bombing campaign against NVA and Vietcong bases in Cambodia. In 1970, Sihanouk was desposed in a military coup General Lon Nol takes power. Sihanouk fled to China and set up a government in exile called the Khmer Rouge.
Moa was sympathetic to the groups MAOIST philosophy never as close to North Vietnam as people thought. In the early 1970's Lon Nol is facing 2 enemies the North Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge. He relly didn't hace control over the country in the spring of 1970, U.S. and ARVN forces invaded to wipe out NVA bases in Cambodia, but by late summer they all pull out so in the end this really didn't acomplish anything.
By then it was only a matter of time his weak military began losing territory. Also U.S. was again conducting secret bombing raids this was stopped by August 1973. In 1975, after U.S. forces leave southeast Asia, Lon Nol is deposed by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Plot as they capture Phnom Penh.
Regime of terror lasts until 1979 when Vietnam invades. A long civil war will last untill 1991 Paris Peace Agreement In 1998 Pol Plot dies in his jungle hideout. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/... Saddam himself murdered his way to power in 1968 and begin support terrorist groups in the middle east.
Saddam during Iraq-Iran war discovered that two groups of captives within Iraq, Kurds and Shiites, tended to favour Iran, and not Saddam. In fact, both groups was accused of assisting Iran. Saddam gassed some of them to stop that.
Then August 2nd, 1990, Saddam invaded Kuwait in order to steal their oil prices to pay off his debt off Iraq-Iran war. During the seven month Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, the Iraqi Army killed many Kuwaiti civilians by the use of torture, whipping, public hanging, cutting health care for poor/educated/starving Kuwaiti civilians in favor of the Iraqi Army only, intentionally targeting family members, and shot the boys/girls age 17-19 five of them per day, and rape a lot of Kuwaiti woman everyday. Not to mention that Iraq was firing SCUD missiles on Saudi Arabia and Israel all throughout the Gulf war.
Iraq failed to meet it's deadline to withdraw from Kuwait so on January 1991, U.S./UN forces launched Operation Desert Storm with an aerial bombardment by coalition warplanes against targets in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. Then ground war begins on February 1991 when U.S./UN ground forces moved into Kuwait and drove the Iraqi Army back to their own borders. After the Gulf War ended in a ceasefire agreement, President Bush Sr.
Called on the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam, specifically the Kurds and Shiites, and promised that USA would help overthrow Saddam, but instead USA left them to swing in the desert winds as Saddam slaughtered them. Saddam had two solid indications that these people were his personal enemies, and enemies of Iraq. Over the 1990s, he continued to oppress his own people and most specifically, the Kurds from the North and Shiites from the South of Iraq, by bombing and strafing them with air-power.
The U.S. and it's allies feared that it would repeat the incident what Saddam was doing to the Kurds when he gassed them also with air-power in 1988. The Iraqi no-fly-zones was established by the U.S. and it's allies to defend the Kurds from the North and Shiites from the South of Iraq by the Iraqi warplanes and helicopters. In 2003, when Iraq refuse to cooperate with UN resolutions and even violated UN 1441 as well as a ceasefire agreement, the U.S.-led coalition forces reauthorized the war that Bush Sr.
Started in the 1st place and invaded Iraq. Saddam Hussein rule was deposed in 2003 and caught in December 2003. Gulf war started when Saddam invaded Kuwait and ended when U.S. ouster Saddam Hussein from power.
Three years later, Saddam was hanged for his crimes against humanity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/mi... In terms, both leaders are authoritarian and murderous dicatorial leaders like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao before them. They murdered them in belief they were a threat to their lives.
But Pol Pot killed more than Saddam.
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