| |
| | Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars: |
 | | Intentional killing of all "class enemies," elimination of cities and city dwellers, destruction of every ethnic and religious minority, mass murder of the Eastern Zone of Democratic Kampuchea, execution of all teachers, doctors, lawyers, soldiers and government officials. |
 | | It signified that this person was not to be seen as an individual person but as a member of a class, a classification determined by religion and “race.” The yellow star marked a classification of people the Nazis had decided to kill. |
 | | Preparation, the penultimate stage of genocide, is the operation when extermination prisons are built and members of vilified groups (class enemies, the Cham, people from the Eastern zone) are transported to them. |
| www.genocidewatch.org /bluescarves.htm (2631 words) |
|