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    Pol Pot wanted to start the civilization over again, that history itself is restarting. In his vision, not everyone would be able to participate, only farmers would be allowed (Kiernan). Farmers, or “the old people,” had the power to bring about the utopia, also known as the Agricultural Utopia, Communist vision. For Pol Pot to succeed with his idea of restarting history, he isolated Cambodia from the rest of the world. He deported all foreigners, banned all…

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    The Cambodian Genocide The Cambodian genocide lasted from 1975-1979 and killed “approximately 1.7 million people” (Kiernan). The Cambodian genocide was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority…

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    INTRODUCTION Cambodia, which has fewer people but larger land used to be peaceful and nonaligned. But the genocide occurred by surprise, “The dead are crying out for justice. Their voices must be heard. It is the responsibility of the survivors to speak out for those who are unable to speak, in order that the genocide and holocaust will never happen again in this world” (Pran 10). The terror shrouded the country and silently influences people’s life. Genocide occurred in Cambodia in South East…

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    Cambodia Genocide Essay

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    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 agriculture. This concept is evident in the Khmer Rogue’s political ideology, that…

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    in Southeast Asia, Cambodia is a country less than half the size of California. From 1975 to 1979 the people of this country were living in the most unbearable conditions. This is due to the fact that on April 17, 1975 Pol Pot commenced mass murders of the upper and middle class Cambodians. Starvation spread like a disease throughout Cambodia because of past government issues, the work of the Khmer Rouge, and failed attempts of aid. Not only was Cambodia in the middle of a civil war, but the…

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    Genocide in Cambodia INTRODUCTION Cambodia, which is in South East Asia, has few people, but large land area and used to be peaceful and nonaligned. However, this all changed when Pol Pot’s desire to purify Cambodian society of all western influence and his rise to power following the US withdrawal from Vietnam, destabilized the region which led to genocide in Cambodia. Genocide occurred in Cambodia between 1975-1979. The genocide occurred by surprise as “the dead are crying out for justice.…

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    Genocide was a major genocide which occurred from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot’s army was named Khmer Rouge. This army consisted of teenage guerilla fighters, refraining guerilla’s s because they fought guerilla style. The goal of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge was to turn the country of Cambodia into a communist country. People were moved from their cities and forced to go to labor camps. At these labor camps, the people were starved, tortured and killed. All eight stages of genocide occurred in this…

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    Pol Pot: Khmer Rouge

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    Pol Pot Pol Pot was the leader of Khmer Rouge. His organization took control in Cambodia on April 17, 1975. Another name for his community was the Communist party of Kampuchea (CPK) the CPK created the democratic state of Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled it until January 1979. The group was kept a secret until 1977 and no one outside the CPK knew who its leaders were. While the Khmer Rouge were in power they set up policies disregarding human life and created repression and massacres on a mass…

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    Each of the genocides were meant to eliminate a group of people, and begin a new era in each country, but each leadership had a different overall meaning to their actions. The Armenian Genocide, led by the Young Turks, a government brought to power in 1908, brought hope to the Armenian people. They thought the new head of power would promote equality in society, yet the only goal the Young Turks had in mind was to eliminate…

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    positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and resettled others from urban areas to the countryside. Because of all this, Cambodian political and social tensions steadily rose in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. One major aspect that forced the political tensions of Cambodia to increase was its own…

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