Culture of Cambodia

exterminated every ethnic group in Cambodia (289). The Khmer Rouge desired for Cambodia to be as they once were in the Angkor Empire, a powerful nation. The Khmer Rouge idolized the empire so much that it was their symbol. The Khmer Rouge was set on gaining their territory back from the Vietnamese, because they felt it was rightfully theirs. This caused the rise in the Khmer Rouge nationalism and fanaticism. There…

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 brutally murdered…

An emotional piece by Loung Ung, 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…

In The Things they Carried, By Tim O 'Brien, there are three characters that are greatly changed by the Vietnam War those characters being Rat Kiley the medic, Mary Anne an all American girl and well-educated liberal minded Tim O’Brien. Each character comes to Vietnam in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War with a level of goodness in their hearts that is instilled in all Americans who have never seen war. After going to war it changes a these people by taking away a piece of that goodness…

story Alive in the Killing Fields, Nawuth Keat, who is a survivor of the 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…

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, followed by his two younger brothers, Vorn and Vey. During that time, Channy was ten, my dad was seven, Vorn was five, and Vey, four. They lived in a village near the city of Krong Battambang in Cambodia…

people could not get food for their families. Such were the case for Pol Pot of Cambodia and Josef Stalin of Russia. The poor economic conditions of these countries assisted the rulers in consolidating and acquiring power. In Russia, Stalin was attempted to steer away from the capitalist New Economic Policy to bring Russia back on the road to communism so that all including the farmers will be pleased. In Cambodia, Pol Pot aimed to remove corrupt capitalism and create a moneyless world where…

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…

agitating the country, a radical idea of a utopian Communist society, and a new, dark beginning of Cambodia. In 1953, Cambodia received its independence from the country of France (“Cambodia”). Their independence came just before the United States went to war with Vietnam in the 1960’s. As the war grew, fighting began to spill into Cambodia. In 1969, President Nixon launched bombs onto the border of Cambodia…

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 agriculture. This concept is evident in the Khmer Rogue’s political ideology, that Cambodia was to become a Agrarian nation and have no western influence. The pursuit of this ideology significantly impacted numerous sectors of the Cambodian economy…