In
Cambodia, a
genocide was carried out by the
Khmer Rouge (KR)
regime led by
Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979 in which an estimated one and a half to three million people died. The KR had planned to create a form of
agrarian socialism which was founded on the ideals of
Stalinism and
Maoism. The KR policies of forced relocation of the population from urban centres, torture, mass executions, use of
forced labor, malnutrition, and disease led to the deaths of an estimated 25 percent of the total population (around 2 million people). The genocide ended following the
Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. At least 20,000 mass graves, known as the
Killing Fields, have since been uncovered.