· War Crimes & Atrocities

The Darkest Hours

The Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) killed between 1.5 and 2.2 million people — approximately one in four Cambodians — making it proportionally the deadliest genocide of the 20th century. Unlike the Holocaust's industrial extermination facilities, the Khmer Rouge killed through engineered starvation, forced labor, systematic torture, mass execution, and the deliberate destruction of every institution — medical, religious, educational, familial — that sustains human life. The killing was not confined to specific sites: it was distributed across the entire territory of Cambodia, administered through the ordinary apparatus of agricultural governance. Every mass grave in Cambodia is a crime scene; the country's soil is its own archive of atrocity.