Cambodian Genocide

1. Campaigns to eliminate suspected enemies, including members of the Khmer Rouge.
5. Cambodian capital captured and evacuated in April 1975.
9. Ideological label used for people associated with wealth, cities, or private property.
10. Site known as one of Cambodia’s “Killing Fields.”
12. Educated people targeted as possible threats to the revolution.
14. Major cause of death resulting from extreme food shortages.
15. Leader of the Khmer Rouge regime.
16. UN-supported court that prosecuted senior Khmer Rouge leaders.
18. Burial sites that provided evidence of widespread killings.
21. Doctors, teachers, and other trained workers targeted by the regime.
24. Political and economic ideology taken to an extreme by the Khmer Rouge.
25. Physical and psychological abuse used in Khmer Rouge prisons.
26. Work imposed on civilians under brutal conditions in rural camps.
27. System in which the government attempts to control nearly every part of society.

2. Cambodian prince whose overthrow contributed to political instability and civil war.
3. Phnom Penh prison that became a site of torture and execution.
4. Communist movement responsible for the Cambodian Genocide.
6. Courts established to prosecute major Khmer Rouge perpetrators.
7. Name for the regime’s attempt to erase the past and rebuild society completely.
8. Country whose forces invaded Cambodia and overthrew the regime.
11. Name used for Cambodia under Khmer Rouge rule.
13. Forced removal of people from Cambodia’s cities.
17. Southeast Asian country ruled by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.
19. Deliberate killings of suspected enemies of the regime.
20. System emphasizing collective control rather than individual ownership.
22. Relating to farming; the type of society the Khmer Rouge wanted to create.
23. People whose testimony helped reveal the atrocities outside Cambodia.
28. Short name of the notorious Khmer Rouge security prison.