Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia

what they are doing was right. When the NATO and the USA intervened to stop the Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina this was considered humanitarian intervention, it was considered good, an act of heroism by the west. So why when Vietnam stopped the Khmer Rouge was it not considered a humanitarian intervention. It is because the US “bitterly opposed them and moved very quickly to punish those who had carried out the prime of ending these slaughters (Chomsky, 2013). The issue with this is it…

together to pay respects to the deceased, Buddha’s name is put to the side of Christian hymns. (Gutradt176) Although, a few of the children used to go to Christian services, known as church and Wayne his self was a Christian when he first came to Cambodia, he never saw it as his place to change people, it was only to love them and care for their needs. And over the years, he stop calling himself a Christian, but was introduced to a universal life force. Wayne still prayed even though he moved…

The Somoza dictatorship robbed Nicaraguans of everything. He stole from many government institutions and didn’t care to provide education or infrastructural improvements for the majority of Nicaraguans suffering from extreme poverty by the end of his rule. When A major earthquake hit in 1972 he failed to provide any medical aid to the Nicaraguan people and didn’t rebuild any of the severely damaged homes and buildings in Managua. The United States had a clear role in supporting the Somoza…

Has sovereignty essentially changed with the end of the Cold War? Sovereignty has long provided the framework for domestic and international interactions. However the rules and norms of sovereignty are not static consequentially with the end of the Cold War sovereignty has essentially changed. Prior to 1991 notions of sovereignty harked back to the peace of Westphalia in the mid 16th century. The treaties of Munster and Osnabrück provided the basis of state sovereignty, which at its core…

However, Vietnamization did not end the war or end the antiwar movement like Nixon had planned. In early 1970, Nixon ordered U.S. troops into neutral Cambodia, in order to disrupt supply lines to the South. But the invasion did not achieve its military goals, and it destabilized the Cambodian government, starting a chain of events that brought the Khmer Rouge to power and…

Theatre has been a long standing way to make people think about issues more than themselves. With the trying times the world is facing today Theatre for Social Change is needed now more than ever. Catherine Fillox’s Selma’65 Confronts Voting Rights Rollbacks, and Eleanor Bishop Steers Steubenvilleto Address Campus Rape are two articles with the most current issues college campuses face today. Filloux’s previous work on binge drinking, as well as her current play about youth being silenced for…

Martti Koskenniemi, offer their contrasting perspectives. Martti Koskenniemi believes that sovereignty since its inception has played a vital role in developing international relations, he notes that, “The pattern of influence and decision-making that rules the world has an increasingly marginal connection with sovereignty.” He expresses frustration at how globalization has contributed to the demise of state sovereignty…

notion that humans, as imperfect beings, are unsettlingly fond of committing horrendous crimes against their fellow men. Germans oversaw the systematic extermination of six million of their Jewish brethren during World War II (8), and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime purposefully executed two million of the country’s own citizens in the 1970s (9). These two examples are from the twentieth century alone; in reality earth’s history of genocides is far more extensive than most individuals would like…

Plan of investigation/Identification and evaluation of sources The question that this investigation will focus on is “What were the causes of the Guatemalan Civil War?”, while also analyzing to what extent did each of these issues affect Guatemala and its outcome after the war as a whole. Although guatemala had many detailed points of conflict, This question is significant, in that it is necessary in understanding the fundamental detailed internal conflict that led to the eventual outcome…