The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where victims of large-scale genocide were murdered and buried by the Khmer Rouge (which means "Red Cambodian people"; rouge is French for red, and "red" denotes a "Communist"), a fanatical Maoist regime, during their rule from 1975 to 1979, which followed hard-after the disastrous pull-out by the U.S. military in 1973, which had conceded defeat to the Communist North Vietnamese, after the Vietnam War. The last U.S. military flight out of Vietnam was in 1975, during the collapse of Saigon (which represented the fall of the South Vietnamese nationalist, anti-Communist government, the Republic of Vietnam). Estimates of the number of dead range from 1 million, to as high as 3.3 million, out of a native population of nearly 8 million people. During the height of the genocide, not a single news story about the massacres reached the war-exhausted American public. The international news black-out of the genocide allowed the massacres to proceed unabated.
robert42 Reviewed by robert42 on . The Most Evil Men in History? Who do you think is the most evil man in history? I will make it a poll but if you think someone else is worse then say. Picture 1- Adolf Hitler Picture 2- Saddam Hussein Picture 3- George W Bush Picture 4- Jack The Ripper Rating: 5