The Khmer Rouge years were a period of time that devastated the entire small country of Cambodia, a story so well told by Loung Ung about Pol Pot's regime. The Khmer Rouge Years they range from 1975 to 1979 (http://www.cambodiatribunal.org). The Khmer Rouge, otherwise known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), took over Cambodia for four years. The Khmer Rouge forced people to work in the fields, including children. To make matters worse, the people forced to work were also malnourished and lived in terrible conditions (http://www.wcl.american.edu).Saloth Sar, or better known by this alias Pol Pot, was a serial killer. 2 million people in Cambodia died in the years 1975-1979 and Pol Pot was the reason those 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 about whether or not Pol Pot was the commander of a genocide. Pol Pot's regime was based on racial ideology, the belief that one race was superior to another. For example, during Pol Pot's regime, Chinese and Vietnamese communities were subjected to extermination. Also another injured party were people with different political views about Pol Pot. Pol Pot's political vision was communism. Pol Pot's aim was to be the dominant controller. Pol Pot relied on word of mouth to divide citizens into three different divisions. These divisions were “full rights,” “candidates,” and “depositories.” It killed nearly a quarter of the country's population. Pol Pot was a very cruel man. He tortured... middle of paper... a plague on all of Cambodia. The things that happened in the Khmer Rouge years still exist today. In Cambodia it is normal that when parents grow old and are no longer able to take care of themselves, their children take care of them. Since so many people were killed during the Khmer Rouge, the elderly people living there most likely no longer had children to care for them. Another lasting effect of Pol Pot's regime is the fact that Pol Pot killed anyone who was educated. He killed educated people because he was worried that they might threaten his power. So Cambodia will now have a hard time educating the Cambodian people. Pol. Weed has also wiped out many ethnicities in Cambodia. An author in Regional Geography writes "Cambodia is the least ethnically diverse country in Southeast Asia because of Pol Pot." Cambodia is getting better and better day by day.