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=Why? On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot, the leader of the Communist party Khmer Rouge, took over Cambodia. He wanted to create an agrarian utopia. The ultimate goal of the group was to have a classless, or what they called "Communist Utopia". The Khmer Rouge would execute anyone who didn't cooperate with them. Many people supported Pol Pot and went along with his horrible plan. Pol Pot said that Cambodia was going to be purified. He started this by saying, "This is Year Zero". He wanted Capitalism, Western culture, city lift, religion, and all foreign influences to be gone. This is because he was in favor of an extreme form of peasant Communism. ("Genocide in the 20th Century: Pol Pot in Cambodia 1975-1979") =

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