When Utopia Became a Killing Field: Cambodia's Darkest Chapter

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Did you know an entire country was turned into a death camp in less than 4 years? In 1975, a man named Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army seized control of Cambodia. He promised paradise, a return to the land, a pure, simple society free from corruption. Within days, cities were emptied at gunpoint. 2 million people were forced into the countryside to work as slaves. Then the killing started. Wearing glasses could get you executed. It meant you could read, and readers were enemies. Doctors, teachers, monks, anyone who seemed educated was taken away and never came back. Children were separated from their families and trained to spy. Some were taught to report their own parents. Some were taught to kill them. The killing fields were mass graves spread across the entire country. Bodies were stacked in pits so large they were only discovered years later from the air. By 1979, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's entire population was dead. Not from war, not from famine, from one man's idea of a perfect world.