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In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge communists took control of the country and immediately evacuated the capital city, Phnom Penh. This was the start of a revolution called Year Zero. They returned to a primitive agricultural economy with no money, schools, technology or contact with the outside world. The Khmer Rouge marched everyone into the countryside and forced people to work on the land. Over the next four years the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, ran Cambodia as a harsh labour camp. The Khmer Rouge controlled family life and split up families so children weren't living with their parents. Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation, exhaustion and disease.
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