During the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, over 2.5 million men, women and children were killed. The rulers wanted to return Cambodia to the agrarian society that it was during the Angkor period. After assuming power in 1975 they immediately drove all of the people from the cities in to the country side to work at growing and processing rice. They then rounded up the intellectuals, professionals, wealthy, opposition, and other influential people into interrogation centers. After torture and interrogation, they were then loaded in to trucks, driven to the country, and killed in the killing fields. After Pol Pot's government was driven out in 1979, the killing fields containing mass graves of skeletons were discovered. Today they are memorialized outside of Phnom Penh and other locations. Bones can still be found in the dirt of the fields.
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