article_snippet.sent: But about 20,000 people died from execution, starvation or exhaustion during this exodus at gunpoint, according to war crimes prosecutors; the others were subjected to slave labor in rural camps once labor in rural camps reached labor in rural camps destination, where many met similar fates.
article_snippet.sent: Aimed at creating an agrarian utopia, it would instead prove one of the worst genocides of the modern era, resulting in the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians -- about a quarter of the country's population -- over the next four years.
article_snippet.sent: His killing set out on His killing own, making His killing way to a refugee camp and eventually to the United States.
article_snippet.sent: For more than 30 years His killing has wondered what happened to His killing baby sister.
highlights_snippet.sent: At least 1.7 million people were killed in the subsequent four years, before the regime was driven out .
  