Steely_D wrote:
I wrote a paper on this for a class during my optical studies back around '91.  We found out about it later on in the late 70's when the smoke began to clear from the war.  The pictures of fields with skulls stacked up for as far as the eye could see.  They were monuments to remind the unwilling to be more willing.

 Steely_D wrote:

Pretty much like the cultural revolution in China. Where Mao really lost the plot

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Think Pol Pot targeting folks with glasses because it signified that they were intellectuals: 

“Even discounting the unbelievable cruelty and stunning illogic needed for the Khmer Rouge to kill millions of its citizens in the name of building a utopia, why the targeting of "intellectuals"? Simply put, as the University of Minnesota says, intellectuals were a threat to the Khmer Rouge's power. People with knowledge from the outside world, either through education or travel, were a danger to the kind of government-dominated, insular nation that the Khmer Rouge wanted to build.

This is why the Khmer Rouge only kept farmers and uneducated peasants alive. It's also why they disassembled families and sought to obliterate the family unit itself and why no one was beholden to anyone but their true "mother and father," the party itself, as Cambodia Tribunal explains. Families couldn't live together, couldn't laugh, show affection, or even gather in groups of three or more out of fear of sowing dissent.

The Khmer Rouge was so obsessively paranoid and terrified of losing power — as all dictatorial powers are — that even glasses were a sign of corrosive influence and Western elitism. It's as simple as that. It sounds so unbelievable that folks have questioned whether it's true or not, as evidenced in threads on Quora and Reddit, videos on YouTube, and study guides on Study.com. The short answer is "yes." For a longer answer, we can ask mechanic Chum Mey and artist Bou Meng, whose skills kept them alive in Tuol Sleng prison, where they volunteer to this day (per the BBC).

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