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    The Khmer Rouge not only changed Cambodia but essentially destroyed it, leaving a trail of political and social destruction behind. The Khmer Rouge was responsible for turning Cambodia into one huge labour camp, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and ruining the lives of those who weren’t killed. They emptied hospitals of their patients and withdrew citizens from cities, making this one of the most inhumane and brutal regimes in human history. After being tortured for years by the Khmer…

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    government that was in place, the Khmer Rouge, forced millions of people out of their homes and into the wilderness. People were also forced to work in terrible conditions in labor camps. This relates to the forced labor and heartless treatment of the Jews that the Nazis perpetrated. The group that instigated this genocide was the Khmer Rouge, they rose to power from the Americans constantly bombing Cambodia and killing up to 750,000 Cambodians, thus driving people to flock to this guerrilla…

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    Almost 3 million dead. 80% of children orphaned. In pursuit of what was seen as the “greater good”, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge destroyed the country and, in only 30 years, left scars that may never heal. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were motivated to commit the Cambodian Genocide because of Pol Pot’s desire to create an anti-individualist communist utopia and because of his government officials' need to preserve their power through any means necessary. Pol Pot’s Ideology Pol Pot learned of marxism…

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    Cambodian Genocide took place in Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia. It began shortly after Cambodia’s seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975 and lasted until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1978. North Vietnamese forces seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, in 1975.” Around 156,000 Cambodians died in the civil war, more than half being civilians. Like the Cambodian Genocide, a student from one of the…

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    History: The Khmer Rouge

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    The Khmer Rouge should be listed as one of the most horrific events in history. These sources portray the violent acts of this group. Each of these sources will allow me to incorporate the historical timeline of how the group formed and how much destruction was caused in Cambodia into the essay. Having this information will provide the audience a better understanding of the horrendous magnitude the country and its people went through. Chaumeau, Christine. "More Denial." Far Eastern Economic…

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    The next area that causes the Khmers to be superior to the Polynesians is their strength in having a strong government and strong rulers who lift the lives of all people who follow. Some strong leaders that changed the way of life in the Khmer Empire were rulers such as Jayavarman II, Jayavarman VIII amd Jayavarman VII. This was an advantage as it caused the Khmers to win many battles as leaders of the Khmer Empire were very smart and had a lot of knowledge to be able to defeat other empires.…

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    Meas Sokha Analysis

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    explained how the Khmer Rouge guards would treat the prisoners. The guards took the gall bladders of the deceased prisoners that the guards, themselves, most likely killed, and used them to drink wine (Campbell). Sokha explains the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and how she was treated during the Khmer Rouge. “Sokha also told the U.N. backed ECOC that he witnessed between twenty and one hundred killing in a single day” (Campbell). This story is only one of the millions that people have experienced…

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    when the Khmer Rouge captured the Cambodian Government. The Khmer Rouge were led by Pol Pot. As soon as they captured Cambodia, they immediately started sending people to labor camps. They sent anyone from a doctor, teacher, rich person, the educated, and many more high classed people. The camps were rough, and many starved to death. Starvation was killing enough people that the Khmer Rouge didn’t feel a need to execute anyone. That was until the camps started to get overcrowded. The Khmer Rouge…

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    of Cambodia Remembers because it looked to be the more interesting of the two from the class and if they were assigned I imagined either would be a good choice. Loung Ung, the author, describes in the first person, present tense accounts of how the Khmer Rouge Army, under Pol Pot’s command, forced her and her family from their home and their experience from 1975-1980. She is a nationally known spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World and a Cambodian American human rights activist.…

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    the killing in Cambodia by the group Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were tortured, strangled, and starved. For the “short” time Pol Pot was leader in Cambodia he was responsible for one of the worst mass killings in the 20th century. Pol Pot was a leader in the Khmer Rouge group during the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970’s. He had seized control over the country and quickly renaming it the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. Why would Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge group carry out such a…

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