We've all known about Soviet and Chinese Communism, but too many of us have forgotten about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Here's a snip:
The Khmer Rouge thought Stalin too subtle and Mao too moderate. The carnage those savages inflicted over years and decades, the Khmer Rouge unleashed in days, weeks, and months.
Here's another:
Unlike the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge didn’t use gas chambers. They opted instead for slicing, strangling, shooting, and hanging.
Many victims were evicted from hospitals. Those who remained were stabbed, shot, or clubbed in their beds. Beyond infirmary walls, invalids, teachers, and students were massacred with the indifference of exterminators eradicating roaches.
Any who resisted (or merely appeared befuddled or frightened) were shot dead in the street. Bazookas fired at businesses and houses where human presence was seen or suspected. Before long, there wouldn’t be any.
The Khmer Rouge cut off the water supply its first day in Phnom Penh. After a week, money was abolished and all currency incinerated. Identities were stripped and private property prohibited. Total collectivization was complete in less than two years.
Historian Paul Johnson noted married couples being killed merely for conversing. Orphans and the elderly were abandoned to the whims of famine and disease. Relatives were forced to watch their children, siblings, and parents decapitated, bludgeoned, garroted, or axed in endless orgies of public executions, which were often preceded by horrific mutilation.
Johnson recalled a colonel having his eyes gouged, nose removed, and ears cut off before spending three days dying while crucified on a tree. A teacher who taught unapproved ideas was ordered hanged and hacked, with his eight year-old students forced to carry-out the sentence.
