Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP

Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Khmer Rouge ideology and its relationship to violence[edit] Ideological influences[edit] Pol Pot Khieu Samphan 1978 The Khmer Rouge were heavily influenced by Maoism,[12] the French Communist Party and the writings of Marx and Lenin,[13] again ideas of Khmer racial superiority.[14] Turning to confirm the roots of the ideology which guided the KR intellectuals behind the revolution, it becomes evident that the roots of such radical thought perchance traced to an education in France which started many of the top KR officials on the road to thinking that communism demanded violence.[15][16] Influence from the French revolution led many who studied in Paris to believe Marxist governance which was based on discrimination could be give the national cause in Cambodia.