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    Pol Pot Research Paper

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    the 19th, in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. During his years he rose to power as a leader for the Khmer Rouge, one of Cambodia’s Communist Regimes, which during 1975 took over the country. During his time in power and during the Khmer Rouge reign, he oversaw deaths of around one to two million people from starvation, overwork or execution. Pol Pot was a leader that had negative effects on his people and country. Pol Pot was born into a farm life type of family in a small village called Prek…

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    The Cambodian Genocide and Holocaust: Comparison and Contrast The intentional killing of a large group of people, typically due to ethnicity, race or religion is known as genocide. In the Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, many innocent people were murdered in hopes of a “perfect population”. The Holocaust began in 1933 in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power. Hitler and members of the National Socialist German Workers Party committed the massacre of genocide. The massacre was committed…

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    Cambodian Genocide Causes

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    genocide was the result of the Khmer Rouge, which was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people. They murdered many different groups including the Vietnamese, in and around the borders of the country, the Chinese, Muslim Chams, Buddhist monks, and even some Khmers, that they saw as traitors. They almost 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…

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    Cambodian Genocide Essay

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    CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE The Khmer Rouge were cambodians communist took control of the Cambodian government in 1975, they strived to make the country into a communist agrarian utopia. In reality, they emptied the cities and evacuated millions of people to labor camps where they were starved and abused. Teachers and doctors and very smart people, as well as monks and the rich anyone else in that position of having wealth were torchered and killed. It is estimated that between 1.7 and 2 million…

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    implemented his plan of eradicating people not up to the perfect German standards, namely the Jews, homosexuals and gypsies ("A Brief Holocaust Summary"). Hitler believed he was propelling Germany and the world forward by removing the non-Aryans from the world. The Nazis murdered over 6,000,000 people, most of whom were Jews. The Holocaust was finally put to a stop when the Allies defeated Germany at the end of WWII ("A Brief Holocaust Summary”).…

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    Angka Child Soldiers

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    here” (Ung 130). Cambodian children, just like Loung Ung, were forced into combat through the use of propaganda and persuasion. At many camps throughout Cambodia, children were taught to love and respect the Angkar; they were instructed to put the Khmer Rouge before themselves and die for the cause. These young children were brainwashed to believe the Angkar loves and protects, so going into the war was a service and duty. Knowing any opposition would result in harsh consequences, Ung listened…

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    who experienced mental and physical torture, and from this torture found the will to believe that there could be such a world where man would never torture again. Wiesel discovered along the path of bringing this world to manifestation however that people choose to forget suffering rather than remembering it, and live in a world of dishonest peace than acknowledge the oppression. Wiesel reminds us that remembering is one of the most important things a person can do, because it is from our…

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    Cambodian Genocide Essay

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    neutral, non-aligned, with sovereignty over its territorial integrity, in a society in which happiness, equality, justice, and true democracy reign, without rich or poor, without exploiting class or exploited class, a society in which the entire people lives in harmony and great national unity and bands together to contribute to the production effort and, together, to build and defend the country.” 29 – Preamble to the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea The Cambodian genocide shows the…

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    Father Essay The book First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung takes place in Cambodia during the Cambodian Genocide. The Cambodian Genocide is the action of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who killed many people based on ethnicityt. The main character, Loung Ung, lives in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge takes over Phnom Penh forcing Loung and her family to flee the capital. Loung's three older siblings are forced to go work at different labor camps,…

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    Genocide In Cambodia

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    The Khmer Rouge’s Rule of Cambodia Is humankind capable of creating another genocide? It was April 17th, 1975 shots were being fired, people running away, it dawned on everyone that the Cambodia’s Government was being seized by the Khmer Rouge. The third genocide in world history was about to begin. It happened in Cambodia, this country is located in the continent of Asia, it is also the 90th largest nation. Their Capital is Phnom Penh. This country has been independent from France since 1953,…

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