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The '''Killing Fields''' is a collective name for several mass execution sites used by the [[Khmer Rouge]] during the communist sponsored '''[[Cambodian Genocide|Cambodian genocide]]''' between 1975-1979. An estimated 1.5 to 3 million innocent victims were murdered by the [[leftist]] regime after the Americans withdrew from Southeast Asia. Anyone suspected of cooperating with or harboring sympathies for the [[United States]] and the [[capitalist]] system was exterminated.

The '''Killing Fields''' is a collective name for several mass execution sites used by the [[Khmer Rouge]] during the communist sponsored '''[[Cambodian Genocide|Cambodian genocide]]''' between 1975-1979. An estimated 1.5 to 3 million innocent victims were murdered by the [[leftist]] regime after the Americans withdrew from Southeast Asia. Anyone suspected of cooperating with or harboring sympathies for the [[United States]] and the [[capitalist]] system was exterminated.

Many [[Hmong]] refugees fled to the United States ftom [[Cambodia]] to escape the [[left-wing]] atrocities.

Many [[Hmong]] refugees fled to the United States from [[Cambodia]] to escape the [[left-wing]] atrocities.

== Historical Background ==

== Historical Background ==