On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge forces took over the capital city of Phnom Pehn, ushering in a brutal revolution that ultimately resulted in the deaths of over two million people.  With the goal of creating an agrarian Communist utopia, the Khmer Rouge regime evacuated millions of people from the cities, killing whomever they considered a "class enemy."  Intellectuals, professionals, doctors, teachers, and anyone who worked for the old regime were targeted for execution, while others were forced into labor camps.  Rural farmers and city people alike worked to exhaustion and death, and most people received less than a hadful of rice to eat a day.  Starvation, malnutrition, and disease ran rampant, and no medical care was available.  The soldiers in charge - somtimes boys as young as twelve years old who were forced to join the regime - beat and killed people for scavenging, for complaining, for working too slowly, and often for no reason at all.  -next-