January • January 6 - Cambodia had made up of four
classes such as:
peasants,
proletariat,
bourgeoisie, and
feudalists with Post-revolutionary society, as defined by the 1976 constitution of Democratic Kampuchea, consisted of workers, peasants, and "all other Kampuchean working people" under the leadership of
Angkar which divided them as "Old People" from rural areas and "
New People" from
urban centers like
New Democracy by the
Chinese Communist Party in which "patriotic" landlord or bourgeois elements were permitted to play a role in socialist construction like
Pol Pot who lived in
Paris as a student to join the
French Communist Party along with
Vietnam's
Ho Chi Minh of the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) before him but prefers the study of
Robespierre's
Reign of Terror as part of the
French Revolution by the
Commune.
February • February 14 - Both leaders from
North Korea and
Communist China had sided with
Cambodia to maintain its own independent standing within the "
communist world" and to support its "revolutionary comrade-in-arms", with
Kim Il Sung and
Deng Xiaoping provided critical support to
Angkar and the
Khmer Rouge, as their motivations and the nature of their relationships with
Pol Pot as "Brother Number One" that implemented an extremist form of
Maoism, drawing direct inspiration from China's
Great Leap Forward and the
Cultural Revolution especially
Red August to Cambodia's
Super Great Leap Forward ("Moha Lout Plaoh").
March • March 10 - The leadership of "
Angkar," had fostered a
cult of personality centered on the "Supreme authority", which continues omnipresent and demanded complete loyalty to the "Communist Party of Kampuchea" (CPK), The
People's Republic of China was the primary benefactor of the
military provided by the
People's Liberation Army (PLA) with the vast majority of its external support from China, while
North Korea (DPRK) also served as a significant and loyal ally to the
Khmer Rouge, though its material contributions were secondary to those from
Beijing, with
Pyongyang became generally the second-largest trading partner after China, which both
maintained strong,
unique ties of the
geopolitical alliances between the
two nations.
April • April 17 - The third anniversary of the
Fall of Phnom Penh to the
communist organization of
Angkar by the
Khmer Rouge ('Cambodian Reds') from the
United States-backed
Khmer Republic of
Lon Nol who had fled to exile in
Hawaii and then in
Fullerton,
California while
Saloth Sâr (Pol Pot) came to power as "His Majesty"
King Sihanouk was deposed by placing under house arrest and heading to exile in overseas such as
Pyongyang and
Beijing, with the Constitution of 1976 had led the birth of Democratic Kampuchea isolating the country from all foreign influences including neighboring
Vietnam, closing schools, hospitals, universities, government buildings, airports, and factories, abolishing all banking systems, finance and currency, with foreigners and westerners are banned to enter or return to Cambodia when it was introduced to the new emblem using rice fields and an irrigation canal with a weir and works in the distance and ears of rice tied with a red ribbon with the name of the country in golden Khmer script in baseby while the plain red flag with yellow three-towered monument similar to the Angkor Wat was adopted as the national flag meaning the traditions of the Cambodian people and their efforts to make the country more prosperous as well as the revolutionary struggle represented the nation's traditions and the people's defense and construction of the country reflecting communist ideologies and describes a new state as "a precious model for humanity" while Cambodian civilians including children, party members and leaders were forced to wear all the same black uniform clothing including red and white gingham krama is a traditional Cambodian scarf were prohibited from leaving the country and collectivising agriculture which divided regions into seven geographic zones such as the Northwest, the North, the Northeast, the East, the Southwest, the West, and the centre, with these zones were derived from divisions established and its propensity for violence must be understood against this backdrop of war that likely played a contributing factor in hardening the population against such violence and simultaneously increasing their tolerance and hunger for it which later turned this radical understanding of society and violence onto their countrymen after "Angkar" had won scores of total victory for
1976 Cambodian general election by the
Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly (KPRA) instead of provinces, Democratic Kampuchea was divided into geographic zones, with derived divisions from one zone were frequently sent to another zone to enforce discipline and uncompromising like any dissident or ideologically impure cadres gave rise to the purges that were to decimate Angkar ranks which became everyone's mother, father or god to undermine the morale of the victorious army, and to generate the seeds of rebellion has completely administered with strict discipline more than 25,000 Buddhist monks were massacred by Angkar's Khmer Rouge where all religious practices were banned which believed Buddhism was "a decadent affectation" as Angkar sought to eliminate Buddhism's 1,500-year-old mark on Cambodia, to form itself as
Communist Indochina or
Indochinese Federation, with the Committee decreed that the population would work ten day weeks with one day off from labor; a system modelled was used after the
French Revolution which measures were taken to indoctrinate those living in the co-operatives with set phrases about hard work and loving Cambodia being widely employed, for instance broadcast via propaganda loudspeakers or on the radio, hoping and wanted to double or triple the country's population, hoping it could reach between 15 and 20 million within a decade, more people to do more work for Angkar, as the Khmer Rouge say "to keep you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss" which transformed Cambodia into a "slave state" as Democratic Kampuchea returned to the "Golden Age" like
Jayavarman II who reigned as king and founder of the
Khmer Empire.
May June July August September October November December • December 25 -
Vietnam invaded Cambodia which lead to the ouster of Pol Pot in the next year ==References==