The Khmer Rouge's system was designed to prove any claim put forward by officials and allow anybody to be slaughtered. People went in, and were murdered after g

The Khmer Rouge's system was designed to prove any claim put forward by officials and allow anybody to be slaughtered. People went in, and were murdered after giving lists of family and friends to stop the torture, who were then tortured, forced to confess and killed in the same way. It was absolutely monstrous, and designed to back up (mostly) false statements of Soviet, Vietnamese and US infiltration, and that certain nationalities sand ethnic groups were collectively working to sabotage the government. Torturers were trained with pseudoscience, such as claims that if you strangle a victim and their heart rate increases, they are lying. The result was the Cambodian communist party splitting and joining with the Vietnamese to expunge Pol Pot, and the Cambodian Genocide. I don't know how exactly any of this 'worked'. It did the opposite of create a secure state and confessions were merely used as an excuse to justify the existing hatreds of the Khmer Rouge.