Cambodia 1975-1977
The nation was renamed Democratic Kampuchea (DK) with Pol Pot as its dictator. Every Khmer Rouge soldier was sworn to obey his orders; if he did not, he was put to death. Military officers and government officials who had been opposed to the Khmer Rouge were killed. Pol Pot also ordered for all cities to be evacuated and for the citizens to work on the farms in order to turn the nation into a self-sufficient agricultural nation. Schools, factories, and hospitals were also closed. The entire urban population was driven out of the cities with whatever possessions they could carry. Only a few light industries were maintained in the otherwise empty cities and towns. Those who resisted littered the street as corpses. A huge number of educated Cambodians who had lived in the cities and practiced a skill or profession including doctors and teachers were also executed. A few of them passed themselves off as uneducated farmers, and thus avoided execution.