ocr: Cambodian society underwent one of the 20th century's most horritic programs ofsocial transtormation between 1975 and1979 under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. Over one million Cambodians, Or one in eight, died from warfare, starvation, overwork or execution. Half a million more went into exile in Thailand. The PolPot regime's reforms ledto the scrapping of money,possessions and hierarchy. Only peasants, soldiers of the revolution and some industrial workers were allowedto retain their pre-revolution status. Boys and girls of13 and 14 were taken from their homes, indoctrinated - in the tenets of ...
