Khmer people

In the memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung recaps her life from the age of five to the age of nine. Loung Ung describes to the young readers her torturous, devastating life during the Khmer Rouge invasion of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Loung tries to inform the reader of how life was for the people during Pol Pot’s, the leader of the Angrakha, regime by stating her own life experience at the age of 5 but using the diction of an adult. Loung depicts the situations occurring, repeats…

In 1978, a high school was basically taken and turned into a place of torture for about 14,000 people, out of these 14,000 people only 7 had survived this place (S21 Victims). This high school could be seen as a concentration camp, but worse. Instead of forced labor or quick killing of those incapable of getting work done, all who were sent to this “school” were…

The people of Ro Leap could easily be perceived as narcissistic. All they cared about were themselves, and because of that, many people died. However, many found reasoning to be furious, specifically in the fact that they had previously had to live in very tough conditions before Khmer Rouge went into power. On page 18, Pa says, “.....these people are destroyers of things,” when referencing the soldiers of Khmer Rouge. The people of Ro Leap symbolized bitterness to…

a reform but the fact that Pol Pot wanted the reform to occur in two years was what pushed him to act so radically. One thing that is very noticeable in the regime is that the things that he felt were bad in Capitalism and should be kept from the people he still did. To cover for it he created the name Angkar, so in a way Pol Pot, his family, and those he trusted most were divine and could hold on to their old lives and morals while everyone else had to be robots. He tried to build a world of…

Khmer Rouge was one of the many leaders of the Cambodian people. He was a member of the communist party who came into office during Cambodia’s struggle against French colonization. After the first Indochina war in the 1950s, the communist movement in Cambodia began to form. Before Rouge took office, small battles had taken place. In 1970, Marshal Lon Nol, a Cambodian leader, began to battle Rouge and the Vietnamese army he had backing him. Two years later, the Vietnamese turned the fight over to…

When people hear the word “genocide”, they typically think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is one of the most renowned genocide in the world, the Cambodian Genocide, on the other hand, is just as significant. From 1975 to 1979, the Cambodian genocide took place during the Khmer Rouge regime. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, whose ultimate goal was to shift Cambodia into a “utopia”. In order to achieve this goal, Pol Pot had his soldiers propel people out of their homes into…

life in tattered and soiled clothes. Nights were spent in the cold, without food, the fear of being killed, and no place that one can call safe. It was in the year of 1975, when the Khmer Rouge had finally taken over Cambodia. My dad, Voeun, was the third oldest out of six children in his family. By the time the Khmer Rouge had finally begun their control over Cambodia, he had lost two siblings, leaving just the four of them in 1975. The oldest out of the four, was his sister Channy, then came…

concentration camp that use to be functioning, caused something different to happen than most would expect. Most would expect that sadness and remorse would feel the emotions of people in a situation like this. Dara was experiencing the aftermath of how people had been killed. She even saw shoes of people that represented all of the people killed. Instead of getting those emotions she had something she described in the story. Dara said "Anger, fear, pain, and shock-I could have felt all of…

A genocide is a horrific killing of a larger number of people. Two instances of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of…

the Striped Pyjamas is a fiction novel based on the history of World War II. The following compares the two texts by scrutinizing the themes of survival and inequality, purpose and characters in both texts. In the world, there exists people who are aware and people who are oblivious to their surroundings. Naivety can be developed due to a lack of exposure to the reality of the outside world, being restricted to the pleasant things of life and the cocoon of home. The characters Loung and Bruno…