Civil war has existed in Cambodia since 1970. In fact, by April 1975, a Communist group known as the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, seized control of the country and renamed it the Democratic Kampuchea. He systematically began to kill and wipe out any opposers to his rule and also performed ethnic cleansing. There is still unrest and many rebel groups that commit mass killing, mass sexual assault, and looting of villages throughout Cambodia.
