Pol Pot's Cambodia: Was It Genocide?

It is well known that the Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia constituted one of the most massive violations of human rights in the postwar world. ¹ In three-and-a-half years, from mid-1975 to the end of 1978, an estimated one million (probably too low) to three million (probably too high) of approximately seven million Cambodians died from executions and combinations of induced starvation, preventable disease and exhaustion from forced marches and compulsory labor under draconian conditions.