Khmer people

times. The time in Cambodia was very gruesome. Approximately 2.3 million people were tortured and murdered. 2.3 million men, children, women, fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, sisters, and mothers all killed for no reason. The word genocide wasn't a word before 1944. The word genocide was then used after the holocaust. A Polish/Jewish lawyer named Raphael lemkin created this word to emphasize the Nazis killing Jewish people. The word genocide refers to violent acts of someone's religion or…

1. How did you see power being used and/or abused in this book? How would you feel if you were the main character? In the book Sold the person with the power changes throughout the book. At the beginning the person with the power was Lakshmi’s stepfather. He is not able to work but he uses Ama and Lakshmi to his advantage. Ama serves him even though he does not provide anything to the family. He takes the money for himself and gambles it away. He then sells Lakshmi into prostitution without Ama…

1980 population that had been projected in 1970” (p. 327). Though many of the natives of Cambodia died from the bombings associated with the US before the war, many of the rest of the natives ultimately 1.7 million deaths “… are attributable to the Khmer Rouge” (p.…

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten:Cambodia’s Lost Rock n’ Roll by John Pirozzi was about Cambodian music, culture and art, and Cambodia’s tragic and disaster past under the Khmer Rouge regime. This movie illustrated how music is a soul of nation that shape Cambodian’s life and tradition itself. In addition, it also portrayed how music, artists and their way of life were affected during the war. There were a lot of interesting facts and details, likes and dislikes and why this movie grasp me in terms of…

Pol Pot, a previous dictator of Cambodia and the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist party, is an example of this. Pol Pot attempted to completely separate his country from the outside world as a radical experiment. Starting with expelling foreigners to purify the nation, he eventually banned foreign languages, shut…

the spread of “culture”, “civilization” and mostly importantly “religion” (Michael Lee Lanning). During many battles throughout history different groups of individuals were taken advantage over. Moreover, in a patriarchal society women, people of color, and also people of different religious or culture groups are treated, unequal which…

The Khmer Rouge was one of the main and important genocides that took place in history. According to the dictionary, a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group of nation. The Khmer Rouge was a Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 when they started to struggle against the French colonization and was influenced by the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge genocide happened in the capital city of Phnom Penh. It was…

Cambodia after Vietnam war, Cambodia was controlled by Khmer Rouge, a communist group from 1975-1979. Many people have been killed because they against the government. As a result of the Khmer Rouge’s total control and the people’s fighting back. the Cambodian genocide became the most bloody genocide of human history. The Khmer Rouge was a brutal,murderous…

responsible for the displacement, torture, and death of millions of Cambodians. Pol Pot was a communist dictator who wanted to destroy the existing civilization in Cambodia and create a new age. To bring in the new age, he ordered a genocide against his own people and ended up killing 25- 33 percent of his country 's population. He declared that the Buddhist religion, money, and personal possessions were all banned. Every citizen- even the elderly and children- were forced into hard labor. If…

our diverse nation. Sophan Chevone Chea is my mom 's maiden name. She was born in Cambodia to a Cambodian mother and Chinese father. “Chea” is a Chinese surname common in China and Cambodia. In Khmer, the chea means good health and recovery. My mom grew up during the control of the Khmer Rouge, which was a communist movement that later…