Culture of Cambodia

approximately one fourth of Cambodia's population was killed. The rise of the communist power, Khmer Rouge, caused the country to fall into horrible devastation. All people who opposed the Khmer Rouge’s visions were tortured and killed. The background of Cambodia played a big role in the genocide; there are many events that led to the communist party taking over. The Khmer Rouge were ruthless murderers who sought to destroy anyone in their path. The tragedy resulted in a huge death toll of…

Imagine you’re world being turned around from living peacefully and happy to murdering people that you don’t want just to stay alive. This is what people had to go through in Cambodia when Khmer Rouge, a radical Communist regime, came to power in 1975. They started to move people in the countryside and made everyone work, even childrens. Millions of people died by starvation and sickness. In Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick, people’s physiological states changes three ways, person's…

Words have a lot of power. They can hurt and kill as Markus Zusak puts it plainly: “The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words” (Zusak 262). But Vaddey Ratner teaches us that words can have beauty too. In her work of historical fiction, In the Shadow of The Banyan, Ratner eloquently describes the horrors of the Khmer Rouge’s reign and how it affects the lives of the protagonist, Raami, and her family. Raami is a young Cambodian girl from a wealthy upper-class family. Her father, Papa, is a…

home, so I could hear the explosion but I thought nothing of it until we were informed later that day. Up to that day my family and I were avid supporters of the Viet Cong and we were grateful that they were fighting for our independence and our culture, but after Bui had died I found it hard to support anyone. My parents continued to help the members of the Viet Cong in anyway they could and when I was fifteen I even found myself stealing the Republican soldiers medical supplies and sometimes…

soon became country’s goal. This number proved to be illogical due to the fact that before1970, Cambodia averaged less than one ton of rice per hectare. Even when emphasis was put on the collectivization of rice, Cambodia still exported the least amount compared to neighboring countries. Pol Pot and his followers did not rely on technological advancements or new equipment. The new leaders of Cambodia only relied on the forced labor from the people who has once resided in Phnom Penh. This…

society emanate from the abuses of one’s power; unless humans change their morality, society will not improve. Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. The genocide of Cambodia can be traced back to Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime. He was a communist leader and implemented extremist policies. The “Khmer Rouge army marched into Phnom Penh...forcing all of its residents to leave behind all their…

In 1975 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian Government and established a communist government. When the Khmer Rouge took control Pol Pot declared that 1975 was “year zero” would set the Cambodian Calders to year zero. During the time the Khmer Rouge was in control the government started the Cambodian Genocide. In which the government targeted Buddhist monks, intellectuals, officials from the “old” regime, and enemies of the state. The government attacked monks because…

person’s life. The Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh by forcing all of the residents to leave behind everything they had and march towards their countryside. They created “Year Zero,” meaning, they set the calendars back in order to change and make a new Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot did this by making money have no value, taking away private property, outlawing most reading material and religion, taking children away from their homes and forcing them to be in the military. They also had…

Among these genocides of the past, is a country in Southeast Asia called Cambodia. In the 1960’s, this fairly large country that is roughly the size of Oklahoma, had a population of over 7 million people. The country was full of educators and successful people, until the uprising of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975. The Khmer Rouge, formerly known as the Communists Party of Kampuchea, wanted to turn Cambodia into an “Agrarian Utopia.” However, this unrealistic goal was nothing…

Tensions, of the dead people began to develop. Once, Communism have greatly spread throughout Cambodia. Khmer Rouge, affected most parts of Cambodia. Bodies of the unguilty people, provided worries and emotional tensions, towards the United States. The Khmer Rouge impacted the United States by refugees, supported Vietcong, and Communist. As early was the 1960’s, the Khmer Rouge took root in Cambodia’s northeastern jungles. A rebel group driven by communist ideals, nipped the borderline of…