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What led to genocide in Cambodia?
The war in Vietnam complicated politics in Cambodia, and a civil war ensued.
Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and persecuted its enemies.
Educated Cambodians attempted a government takeover from Khmer Rouge,
Massacres increased because reeducation camps were failing,

Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and persecuted its enemies.

Explanation:

Genocide is termed as the intentional killing of a group of people by another, a more superior group who thinks that the others are an obstacle for their development. These killings led to a mass murder of people, generally based on their ethnic or racial backgrounds.

The genocide in Cambodia was led by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot who worked towards "re-educating" the people from western influence. The party took over the nation and began persecuting its enemies. During this genocide, specific ethnic groups were rounded up and killed in mass numbers, using pickaxes which became famous as "the killing fields".  Such type of genocide is also called as ethnic cleansing, a specific removal of a particular ethnic group.

although the legal justifications for the trials and their procedural innovations were controversial at the time, the nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes