Year Zero (political notion)
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The term Year Zero (Template:Lang-km chhnam saun), applied to the takeover of Cambodia in April 1975 by the Khmer Rouge, is an analogy to the Year One of the French Revolutionary Calendar. During the French Revolution, after the abolition of the French monarchy (September 20, 1792), the National Convention instituted a new calendar and declared the beginning of the Year I. The Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh was rapidly followed by a series of drastic revolutionary de-industrialization policies resulting in a death toll that vastly exceeded that of the French Reign of Terror.
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See also
- Cambodian genocide
- Communist terrorism
- Mass killings under Communist regimes
- Stunde Null
- Cultural Revolution
- Year One
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