The Cham community suffered a major blow during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia . The Khmer Rouge targeted ethnic minorities like Chinese , Thai , Lao , Vietnamese and Cham people , with the Chinese suffering the biggest figure of over 200,000 fled or died among the ethnic minorities , followed by the Cham , and then the Thai , though the Cham suffered the largest death toll in proportion to their population . Around 100,000 Cham out of a total Cham population of 250,000 died in the genocide
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