just so people understand this better, that was 25% of the population of Cambodia back then
This isn’t directly relating to the data, but I always feel the need to make this comment when I see posts about the Cambodian genocide.
If anyone has even the slightest interest in these events at all, please look out the book “First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung.
It gives a chilling recount of what actually occurred in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge from the perspective of a child. I am a young man, and the author is younger than my mother. This is not ancient history (as the graphic shows).
If anyone is genuinely interested but hard up, please reach out in my DMs as I’d be honoured to pass a copy on to you, as I strongly believe this is one of the most important books ever written.
Data is not beautiful! Bad data, bad.
But it important reminded that “peace” does not mean live ong ever after, but possible “military force could be use to guide prisoners into gas chamber”.
I was there in 2000 and it was damn eerie seeing so few men over the age of 40. They were just wiped out.
Now we need one for the Bangladesh independence genocide
Notably the Khmer Rouge feared its neighbor, Vietnam, and massacred a bunch of Vietnamese civilians. Subsequently, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and put an end to the genocide.
My friend’s family lost two baby sons while trying to escape the Khmer Rouge.
It is truly unfathomable to us what they went through, and hopefully the world remembers and never attempts anything like it again.
Fuck Noam Chomsky for being an apologist for this shit.
Dont forget how much of this was the US bombing campaigns!
Who counted the number of deaths in 1975-79? and how do they separate deaths that occurred during 1967-1975 and 1975-1979?
![[OC] Cambodia's death toll during the Civil War and Genocide](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/7gzd19n60nae1-1920x1024.png)
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1/ Data:
– Deaths from [World Population Prospects, United Nations (2024)](https://population.un.org/wpp/)
– Data obtained via [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demography?country=~KHM&Metric=Deaths&Sex=Both+sexes&Age+group=Total&Projection+Scenario=None)
2/ Visualization:
– Plot using Python, generated an SVG
– Further design tweaks using Figma
just so people understand this better, that was 25% of the population of Cambodia back then
This isn’t directly relating to the data, but I always feel the need to make this comment when I see posts about the Cambodian genocide.
If anyone has even the slightest interest in these events at all, please look out the book “First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung.
It gives a chilling recount of what actually occurred in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge from the perspective of a child. I am a young man, and the author is younger than my mother. This is not ancient history (as the graphic shows).
If anyone is genuinely interested but hard up, please reach out in my DMs as I’d be honoured to pass a copy on to you, as I strongly believe this is one of the most important books ever written.
Data is not beautiful! Bad data, bad.
But it important reminded that “peace” does not mean live ong ever after, but possible “military force could be use to guide prisoners into gas chamber”.
I was there in 2000 and it was damn eerie seeing so few men over the age of 40. They were just wiped out.
Now we need one for the Bangladesh independence genocide
Notably the Khmer Rouge feared its neighbor, Vietnam, and massacred a bunch of Vietnamese civilians. Subsequently, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and put an end to the genocide.
My friend’s family lost two baby sons while trying to escape the Khmer Rouge.
It is truly unfathomable to us what they went through, and hopefully the world remembers and never attempts anything like it again.
Fuck Noam Chomsky for being an apologist for this shit.
Dont forget how much of this was the US bombing campaigns!
Who counted the number of deaths in 1975-79? and how do they separate deaths that occurred during 1967-1975 and 1975-1979?
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