1975–1977
The entire rural population of Cambodia is organized into agricultural cooperatives under Angkar ('The Organization'). Money is abolished. Markets are closed. Religion is banned — Buddhist monks are defrocked, many executed. Schools are shut. Medicine is replaced with folk remedies. Families are separated. Workers receive starvation rations while being forced to work 12-hour days constructing irrigation canals. Those who wore glasses, had soft hands, or spoke foreign languages were marked as 'new people' — class enemies subject to execution.
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