Baton Rouge

In 1975, a terrible and disastrous era of Cambodia’s history began. This began when Khmer Rouge reigned in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge was led by Pol Pot who was also known as ‘Brother Number One’. During this era, it is believed that as many as 3 million people were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia was mostly an agricultural country, however Pol Pot decided it should be a completely agricultural country. This forced people from towns and cities to move to the countryside. People were…

Tibet has been the battleground for a ferocious conflict between the Chinese state and Tibetan religion for the past six decades. The Tibetan people are a heartening example of a religious people fighting for a voice after years of anguish and disdain, finally making a difference in an abhorrent relationship with a state filled with oppression and deceit. Although the villainous acts committed against them, the Tibetan people’s fighting spirit has allowed them to break through the blanket of…

“Within no time, according to the account of one of the Japanese soldiers, the river and its bank was covered with innumerable bodies, including those of the adults and children. Sources tell us that at least 50,000 people were killed in this tragic incident.” To begin, Genocide is the mass killing of a group and has many individual steps to be classified. In China, during the Sino-Japanese war created conflict in the capital city of Nanking. All eight stages of genocide refer to the Rape of…

A genocide is a horrific killing of a larger number of people. Two instances of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of…

the Khmer Rouge captured the Cambodian Government. The Khmer Rouge were led by Pol Pot. As soon as they captured Cambodia, they immediately started sending people to labor camps. They sent anyone from a doctor, teacher, rich person, the educated, and many more high classed people. The camps were rough, and many starved to death. Starvation was killing enough people that the Khmer Rouge didn’t feel a need to execute anyone. That was until the camps started to get overcrowded. The Khmer Rouge…

end of war and the promise of a fresh start. Their celebrations lasted less than a day. On April 17th, 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, invaded Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, and citizens were forced into the countryside. This marked the start of one of the worst periods in Cambodia’s history; the Cambodian Genocide. Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge, a communist political party in Cambodia, led by Pol Pot refused to compromise their extreme beliefs. These radical beliefs and the…

The memory of the Khmer Rouge and the prison facility S-21 is one that is shadowed by repressed memories, lack of knowledge of the events, and apathy of the horrors that took place. By analyzing the similarities, differences, and the purpose of the book and movie we can see the issues that we have today in memorializing the genocide in Cambodia. The book Voices from S-21, and the movie Khmer Rouge: Killing machine, try and address the misconceptions that the perpetrators have in their…

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