ALT: a picture of a rice field in cambodia with palm trees in the background

ALT: a woman in a traditional costume is standing in front of a flag

ALT: a large white building with the word cambodia on the top

ALT: a poster for cambodia shows three female dancers on stage

ALT: a group of women are dancing together on a stage in traditional costumes .

The Khmer Rouge killed intellectuals and city dwellers because the movement embraced an extreme agrarian, anti-urban ideology that cast educated people, professionals, and anyone linked to the old society as enemies of a new peasant utopia. Under Pol Pot’s rule from 1975 to 1979, cities were emptied, money and markets were abolished, and suspected “intellectuals” were executed or worked to death in rural labor camps.

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