Baton Rouge

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic murder of a certain group of people. Basically, the Cambodian genocide was the attempt of Pol Pot and his party, the Khmer Rouge to take over Cambodia and apply communist ideals to the country. The genocide started in 1975 and lasted until 1979 in Cambodia. According to Britannica Encyclopedia, the book Cambodia, ABC-Clio, Gale Reference Library, and the Yale website, more than 1 million people died by starvation, disease, overworking or even getting…

First They Killed My Father, recounts the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime and how she and some members of her family survived the mass killings. The autobiography is told from Loung Ung’s point of view as an adult looking back at what happened from ages five to nine. The events of this tragedy happens in three parts: before the Khmer Rouge takeover, under the Khmer Rouge reign and life afterwards. While living under Khmer Rouge regime, Ung tells of life in the country which was different…

Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia tells his story. The author conveys the fact that the citizens of Cambodia faced hardships and this actually happened to them. The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party based in Kampuchea, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge did all kinds of harsh things such as home invasions, tortured many innocent citizens for fun, and even killing citizens without warning. The Khmer Rouge was…

in tattered and soiled clothes. Nights were spent in the cold, without food, the fear of being killed, and no place that one can call safe. It was in the year of 1975, when the Khmer Rouge had finally taken over Cambodia. My dad, Voeun, was the third oldest out of six children in his family. By the time the Khmer Rouge had finally begun their control over Cambodia, he had lost two siblings, leaving just the four of them in 1975. The oldest out of the four, was his sister Channy, then came him,…

of this stage. During dehumanization, one group begins to deny the humanity of another group. In turn, this allows the group to disparage the victims and progress towards the eventual extermination. Hate propaganda also begins to emerge. The Khmer Rouge believed that only “pure” people were qualified to build the revolution, and targeted minorities and intellectuals and defined them as “impure.” Minorities were heavily persecuted and were not allowed to practice their religion and express their…

In the memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung recaps her life from the age of five to the age of nine. Loung Ung describes to the young readers her torturous, devastating life during the Khmer Rouge invasion of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Loung tries to inform the reader of how life was for the people during Pol Pot’s, the leader of the Angrakha, regime by stating her own life experience at the age of 5 but using the diction of an adult. Loung depicts the situations occurring, repeats…

Within every memoir, there has been this common theme of a young individual becoming more exposed to the dangers of the world and how this turns their life as they once knew it, upside down. These authors face some events that one may have never thought possible in their life but also raise many questions about the reliance of their perspective. In each piece of what we assume is non-fiction, comes a problematic nature of what these individuals may have had to create to fulfill a story line.…

The United States, China, and the United Nations Security Council highly opposed the international efforts to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice for the fear that it could potentially bring up very difficult issues. Most Cambodians try to ignore the genocide for the fact that it hurts too much to relive those horrific memories. In 1995, mass graves began to be uncovered, showing…

The Cambodian genocide is regarded as one of the most brutal mass killings of the 20th century and resulted in the rise of the Khmer Rogue, a communist party in 1975. It is estimated that 1.7 million people or roughly 20% of the population fell victim to the Genocide initiated by this anti capitalist, left wing establishment under the leadership of Pol Pot, a radical socialist. Intellectuals were particularly targeted by the communist party in an attempt to create a classless society centered on…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…