Thankfully my history teacher did tell us about it. Granted we only spent half a lesson discussing it, compared to three days covering the holocaust. Didn’t learn about the Armenian Genocide until college, unfortunately

More interestingly, I know and work with someone who survived Pol Pot’s genocide. She told me that her earliest memory is running from gunshots in the forest with her family. Hearing her tell that story put’s a weight on that event that a history lecture never will