within one day the khmer rouge orders all cities to be evacuated.people must go to the country to work in the fields,they say.anyone who had anything to do with politics is killed.anyone who is educated is killed.anyone wearing glasses is killed.
they declare april 17,1975 to be year zero-the country had no past,and people were not to remember anything before that date.anyone who did was killed.

this photo shows the evacuation of phnom penh as citizens pack up to go to the fields-almost half died from the journey alone.