What is khmer rouge?

The Khmer Rouge was the name given to Cambodian communists and later the
followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who infamously carried
out the Cambodian genocide. The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians
from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the
entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy it in the name of a
Communist agrarian ideal. Today, more than 30 years after Vietnamese soldiers
removed the Khmer Rouge from power, the first genocide trials will start — a
bittersweet note of progress in an impoverished nation still struggling to rehabilitate
its crippled economic and human resources.
Who is Pol Pot?
Pol Pot was a political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led
Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million
Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. He took part in
orchestrating the Cambodian genocide and presided over a totalitarian dictatorship, in
which his government made urban dwellers move to the countryside to work
in collective farms and on forced labor projects. The combined effects of executions,
strenuous working conditions, malnutrition and poor medical care caused the deaths
of approximately 25 percent of the Cambodian population. In all, an estimated 1 to 3
million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) perished as a result of the
policies of his four-year premiership.
Human rights in north Korea
A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North
Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations
committed by the government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment,
rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against
humanity.

North Korea has ratified four key international human rights treaties and its
constitution includes rights protections. In reality, the government curtails all basic
human rights, including freedom of expression, assembly, and association, and
freedom to practice religion. It prohibits any organized political opposition,
independent media, free trade unions, and independent civil society organizations.
Arbitrary arrest, torture in custody, forced labor, and public executions maintain an
environment of fear and control.

North Korea discriminates against individuals and their families on political grounds in
key areas such as employment, residence, and schooling through “songbun,” the
country’s socio-political classification system that from its creation grouped people
into “loyal,” “wavering,” or “hostile” classes. This classification has been restructured
several times, but continues to enable the government to privilege or disadvantage
people based largely on family background, personal performance, and perceived
political loyalty.