What was it like to live under the rule of the Khmer Rouge?

...When the Khmer Rouge soldiers captured Phnom Penh... it was also like they captured the entire country. This was the day the Khmer Rouge began to evacuate the people from every province and city and forced them all to live in the rural areas and countryside. read more

I would say that it would have been comparable to the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, down to the common features in all three. The Nazi carried out systematic extermination of ‘unwanted’ races. read more

The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy it in the name of a Communist agrarian ideal. read more