The Khmer Rouge, a communist regime, led by Pol Pot, was the cause of nearly two million deaths in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. On April 17, 1975 the Khmer Rouge soldiers marched into Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia) and proudly established their new form of government. In the four years they were in control, they managed to convince all urban residents to trek the long and excruciating journey to the countryside where most met their deaths, including children. Those that did survive, however, wished they had died during the journey rather than suffering under the crucial conditions of the Khmer Rouge inflicted upon them. The Cambodian people were forced to leave the city in a false pretense they were leaving for something better. They couldn’t be farther form the truth. They left their comfortable dwellings only to be placed in communal huts with as many as four families in one cubicle. Everyone had a job in these “camps,” most worked in rice fields for over 13 hours only to be feed thin rice gruel later in the evening. If you didn’t starve to death in these camps then you were personally killed by one of the Khmer soldiers. These major human injustices have been overlooked over the years. Most educational curriculums these days require students to learn about the Holocaust or the mass killings in Rwanda, but they don’t even touch on the subject of the mass genocide that occurred in Cambodia nearly thirty years ago.