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{{Infobox country|name=Democratic Kampuchea|native_name=កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្|image_flag=Flag of Democratic Kampuchea.png|capital=Phnom Penh|largest_city=Phnom Penh|mode_of_production=Semi-feudalism | {{Infobox country|name=Democratic Kampuchea|native_name=កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្|image_flag=Flag of Democratic Kampuchea.png|capital=Phnom Penh|largest_city=Phnom Penh|mode_of_production=Semi-feudalism|leader_title1=General Secretary|leader_name1=[[Pol Pot]]|year_start=1975|year_end=1979|common_languages=Khmer}} | ||
'''Democratic Kampuchea''' was a country in [[Southeast Asia]]. | '''Democratic Kampuchea''' was a country in [[Southeast Asia]]. | ||
==History== | == History == | ||
Pol Pot took power in Cambodia in 1975. The [[United States of America|United States]] killed 500,000 Cambodians with aerial bombing and then sanctioned Cambodia. The bombings killed 75% of the country's draft animals and destroyed many rural houses. | |||
Pol Pot executed between 75,000 and 150,000 civilians, including many pro-Vietnamese communists.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist|date=1986-02-19|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-date=2022-01-16|retrieved=2022-08-01}}</ref> In 1978, Pol Pot invaded [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]] but was overthrown by a Vietnamese counterattack in 1979. He began a US-backed guerrilla warfare campaign against the Vietnamese.<ref>{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=Introduction|page=53|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|city=Fucecchio, [[Italy]]|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref> | Pol Pot executed between 75,000 and 150,000 civilians, including many pro-Vietnamese communists.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist|date=1986-02-19|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-date=2022-01-16|retrieved=2022-08-01}}</ref> In 1978, Pol Pot invaded [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]] but was overthrown by a Vietnamese counterattack in 1979. He began a US-backed guerrilla warfare campaign against the Vietnamese.<ref>{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=Introduction|page=53|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|city=Fucecchio, [[Italy]]|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref> | ||
==References== | == References == | ||