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difficulties throughout her childhood and and because this is written by Loung as an adult it is very interesting to see her perception of herself at the age of five. This memoir talks about the tragedies that took place during the Khmer Rouge that was led by Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge tore families apart, killed innocent children and left many to die due to famine. Between 1975 and 1978, there was an estimated number of two million cambodians that died out of the 8 million population. Vietnamese…

Pol pot, whose real name was Saloth Sar, was the Cambodian revolutionary who lead the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. He became the leader of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, when his forces captured Phnom Penh. At first his politic of anti-Soviet got a lot of other countries supporting, like China, U.S, Thailand and some European countries. After he began working for the Far-left police and massacred a lot of innocent citizens, he was condemned by the international society. Pol Pot had a really…

Both Japan and Cambodia are countries which belong to Asia, the largest continent on Earth. On the other hand, based on the term “geographical realm”, they are in different realms. One is in East Asia, and the other is in Southeast Asia. They also have the distinction in many aspects such as physical pattern, history, population features, economic and political issues, and socio-cultural issues. The characteristics of Japan and Cambodia will be explored obviously by looking at the similarities…

world history, and the United States did close to nothing about it. The Genocide fulfilled all 8 stages of Gregory Stanton’s 8 Stages of Genocide on the dot. Classification is the first stage of genocide, which Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took part in, They classified the people of Cambodia into young and old, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, communist supporters and non-communist supporters. The symbolization used to distinguish the Cambodian civilians in Phnom Penh is the infamous blue…

the author of Lucky Child, was a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide that happened during the period between 1975 and 1979, when more than two million Cambodians were killed by the Khmer Rouge, which counted as nearly 25% of the country’s total population (p. xi). Every aspect of life was monitored and controlled by the Khmer Rouge, who was aiming to clear all their political threats and to create a utopian state (p. xii). Most of the citizens, including Loung and her family members, were forced…

survive and achieve basic needs and one sister thrives safely and tries her best to fit in with the American crowd. In America, Loung is given better education, compared to Chou, who got kicked out of the school because she was distracting too many people with her aunt’s baby. In America, Loung has better safety, while in Cambodia Chou lives in fear in hopes that her or her loved ones won’t get kidnapped in Cambodia. In Cambodia, Chou has a huge weight of responsibility on her shoulder such as…

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.…

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 kind and generous prince and his wife, Mama, is loving, strong, and proud. When the Khmer Rouge takes over and strips them of their comfortable lives and luxuries, we see their true colors as they fight…

states are less likely to engage in internal and external wars. In fact, Rummel (1995, p. 25) opines that the best way to prevent such acts of mass killing are to encourage “democratic openness, political competition, leaders responsible to their people, and limited government”. It is argued that totalitarian and autocratic regimes have historically been more likely to use genocide as a tool. This could be in part, due to the fact that these states do not have the same checks and balances on…

quote that stuck with me was from Youk Chhang, director of Documentation Center of Cambodia, who said: Peace is a “one good night sleep and, then wake up with no fears.” I love this quote and I adopted as a true statement. Youk is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge and he witnessed the killing of his pregnant sister. Though he has not had a good night sleep in years, and the consideration of revenge is something that had always…