Autogenocide is the extermination of a country's citizens by its own people or government. Auto comes from the Greek reflexive pronoun while genocide comes from Greek genos meaning "race, tribe" and the Latin word -cidere meaning "kill". This article describes country as a type of geographical or political entity. ... The word citizen may refer to: A person with a citizenship Citizen Watch Co. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The term was coined in the latter half of the 1970s to describe the actions of the Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia, to distinguish such acts from the genocide of groups considered "other" by a government, such as the killing of Jews and people of Slavic origin by Nazi Germany. For example Edward Herman wrote in a review of Haing Ngor's book A Cambodian Odyssey that "... if the Khmer Rouge aim was 'autogenocide,' it was unable to come anywhere near meeting its objective."[1] The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Some of the Khmer Rouge leadership during their period in power. ... Countries inhabited predominantly by Slavic peoples The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Eastern Europe. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Edward S. Herman is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. ...
One could also argue that it can be applied to any act of suppression that involves deaths and displacement of millions of hetereogeneous, such as the Stalinist Purges of the 1930s.[citation needed] The Great Purge (Russian: , transliterated Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin during the late 1930s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Democide is a term created by political scientist R.J. Rummel in order to create a broader concept than the legal definition of genocide. ... Politicide is a punk band formed in the early 80s. ...
During the 1970s and 1980s, the country was plagued with a brutal civil war, a hated military monarchist regime, as well as an even worse genocidal, agro-communist regime led by the Khmer Rouge.
During the Khmer Rouge period, autogenocide was commited against millions of people who were percieved intellectuals, detractors of Marxism, and some just innocent civilians.
In addition to death from work starvation and exhaustion, the regime killed anyone suspected with connections with either the defeated Khmer Republic government or the previous Sihanouk government, as well as intellectuals (Pol Pot defined anyone who wore glasses as automatically an intellectual), professionals, and also ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams, Laotians, and Thai.
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