How did the majority of 2–2.5 million cambodians lose their lives under the khmer rouge? check all that apply. 1. war 2. genocide 3. disease 4. famine 5. insurgencies

The correct options are: "genocide - disease - disease"

Khmer Rouge is the name by which the Communist Party of Kampuchea was known, which, after the Vietnam War, the departure from the United States and the overthrow of General Lon Nol), took power on April 17, 1975 (the Fall of Phnom Penh »). He founded the Democratic Kampuchea, a system of government with communist and authoritarian characteristics that, under the formal appearance of a popular republic, consolidated in practice a system of radically agrarian economy, under the slogan of the evacuation of cities and the destruction of civilization urban and its culture, considered bourgeois, social reconstruction from the origins of civilization and the recovery of the ancestral Khmer culture under the leadership of Pol Pot, its main leader. In addition to a strong military control over the civilian population, which was largely subjected to a regime of forced labor, they developed extensive methods of detention, torture and selective mass killings, under the slogan of the so-called "internal enemy search".

During the four years of his regime, from April 1975 to January 1979, his actions and ways of imposing his policy led to what is known as the "Cambodian genocide", acts that are currently being tried by a court International in Phnom Penh for crimes against humanity.

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