Cambodia Genocide

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                        Cambodia Genocide

The Cambodia genocide is a genocide that the First humans in Cambodia were hunters and gathers and these farmers used stone tools and used weapons from bronze and later on learned to use iron. And later on civilized to the Mekong river right south of Vietnam and was known to the Chinese as FUNAN                     And that in the beginning of the 7th century all of Cambodia was highly civilized. During the 9th century the Khmer empire believed that spirits inhabited the earth and trees but later on different religions where introduced like Hinduism and Buddhism and built temples and were decorated with stone carving during the 12 century.

Now in the 19th century King Chan turned to the Vietnamese for protection from the Thais when a rebellion occurred in South Vietnam and they took advantage by invading Cambodia and but the Vietnamese crushed the rebellion and the THAI army retreated. So the Cambodian king turned to the French to protect him from the Thais and Vietnamese. And that after the rebellion roads and Railway where built and in the 1920’s the rubber industry grew up. But then the communists began a civil war and which lead to the capture of Phnom PHEN in APRIL 17 1975.