The Khmer Rouge years were a period that devastated the entire small country of Cambodia, a story so well told by Loung Ung about the Pol Pot regime. The Khmer Rouge years stretched from 1975 to 1979 (http://www.cambodiatribunal.org). The Khmer Rouge, otherwise known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), conquered Cambodia for four years. The Khmer Rouge forced people to work in the fields, including children. To make matters worse, those forced to work were also malnourished and living in dire conditions (http://www.wcl.american.edu). Saloth Sar, or better known by this pseudonym Pol Pot, was a serial soap opera. killer. In Cambodia, 2 million people died between 1975 and 1979 and it was because of Pol Pot that these people lost their lives. He was the controller of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge. Hélène Lambert of the University of Exeter writes: “[Pol Pot was] often described as a calm, kind and smiling person on the outside, he was in fact a mass murderer. » There have been many heated debates over whether or not Pol Pot was the commander of the genocide. Pol Pot's regime was based on racial ideology, the belief that one race is superior to another. For example, under Pol Pot's regime, the Chinese and Vietnamese communities were exterminated. Another aggrieved party was also people with different political views on Pol Pot. Pol Pot's political vision was communism. Pol Pot's goal was to be the dominant controller. Pol Pot relied on word of mouth to divide citizens into three different divisions. These divisions were the “full rights”, the “candidates” and the “depositaries”. It killed almost a quarter of the country's population. Pol Pot was a very cruel man. He tortured...... middle of paper ......rible for all of Cambodia. Things that happened during the Khmer Rouge years are still relevant today. In Cambodia, it is common that when parents age and are unable to care for themselves, their children take care of them. Since so many people were killed under the Khmer Rouge, the elderly who survived probably no longer have children to care for them. Another lasting effect of the Pol Pot regime is the fact that Pol Pot killed every educated person. He killed educated people because he feared they would threaten his power. Cambodia will therefore now have difficulty educating the Cambodian people. Pol. Pot has also wiped out many ethnic groups in Cambodia. An author from Regional Geography writes: “Cambodia is the least ethnically diverse country in Southeast Asia because of Pol Pot. » Cambodia is improving day by day.