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== Cambodia ==
[[File:Choeungek2.JPG|thumb|Skulls of victims of the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields in Cambodia]]
There is a scholarly consensus that the [[Cambodian genocide]] which was carried out by the [[Khmer Rouge]] under the leadership of [[Pol Pot]] in what became known as the [[Killing Fields]] was a crime against humanity.<ref name="Totten, Samuel">Totten, p. 359.</ref> Over the course of 4 years, the [[Democratic Kampuchea|Pol Pot regime]] was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2 million people through starvation, exhaustion, execution, and lack of medical care as a result of the communist utopia experiment.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of crimes against humanity and jailed for life|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/khmer-rouge-leaders-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-and-jailed-for-life|access-date=25 November 2021}}</ref> Legal scholars Antoine Garapon and David Boyle, sociologist [[Michael Mann (sociologist)|Michael Mann]] and professor of political science [[Jacques Sémelin]] all believe that the actions of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] can best be described as a crime against humanity rather than a [[genocide]].<ref name="Semelin, Jacques">Semelin, p. 344.</ref> In 2018, the Khmer Rouge was declared guilty of committing genocide against the minority Muslim Cham and Vietnamese.<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 November 2018|title=Khmer Rouge's Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/world/asia/khmer-rouge-cambodia-genocide.html|access-date=25 November 2021}}</ref> Conviction appeal against court decision was rejected in 2022.<ref>{{cite news |title=Khmer Rouge head of state's genocide conviction appeal rejected by Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/khieu-samphan-cambodia-khmer-rouge-tribunal-b2172712.html|access-date=22 September 2022 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=22 September 2022}}</ref> It reaffirms the ECCC's recognition of the Khmer Rouge's racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing against non-Cambodian (Khmer) minorities. The naming of the Cambodian Genocide is an overlooked problem because it downplays the overwhelming sufferings among targeted minority groups and the important roles of [[racism]] in understanding how the genocide was perpetrated.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Heder|first=Steve|title=Racism, Marxism, labelling, and genocide in Ben Kiernan's "The Pol Pot regime"|journal=South East Asia Research|date=1997|volume=5|issue=2|pages=101–153|jstor=23746851|doi=10.1177/0967828X9700500202}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kiernan|first=Ben|title=The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-030-0-14299-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kiernan|first=Ben|title=Wild Chickens, Farm Chickens, and Cormorants: Cambodia's Eastern Zone under Pol Pot, 1st Edition|publisher=Routledge|year=2008|isbn= 978-0-20379-088-5}}</ref> Historian [[Eric D. Weitz]] calls the Khmer Rouge's ethnic policy "racial communism."<ref>{{cite book|last=Weitz|first=Eric D.|title=A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition|publisher=Princeton University Press, NJ|year=2015|isbn=978-0-69116-587-5}}</ref>
In 1997, the co-prime ministers of Cambodia sought help from the United Nations' help in seeking justice for the crimes which were perpetrated by the communists during the years from 1975 to 1979. In June 1997, Pol Pot was taken prisoner and offered up to the international community during an internal power struggle within the Khmer Rouge and offered up to the international community. However, no country was willing to seek his [[extradition]].<ref name="Lattimer, Mark. Sands, Philippe.">Lattimer, p. 214.</ref> The policies enacted by the Khmer Rouge led to the deaths of one quarter of the population in just four years.<ref name="Jones, Adam 188">Jones, p. 188.</ref>
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