The Toledo Museum Of Art

Their leader, Pol Pot, used his newfound energy to provoke one of many darkest periods of the 20th century. Agriculture was collectivized, resulting in widespread famine, whereas residents of cities have been marched into the countryside and compelled to work under slavelike conditions. Militants focused anybody suspected of connections to capitalism or foreign cultures or of deviating from the Khmer Rouge’s extreme interpretation of Marxism. The party’s rule led to 1979, when invading Vietnamese forces put in a proxy government that restored a level of normality. But the Khmer Rouge continued to fight, launching a …