Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia

actions of the Khmer Rouge government weren’t much different. It was mainly to better the government and they didn’t care about who got in their way. The Khmer Rouge government began targeting certain groups for destruction. In the regime's eyes, two different kinds of people existed in Cambodia- old people and new people. The new people were undesirable because they were influenced by foreign values, and did not live agrarian lives. Other groups targeted for extermination by the Khmer Rouge…

It is ok to want change, but the thing to understand about change is that it doesn’t all happen over night. It is true Cambodia was in a bad state and needed 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…

genocide. The Khmer Rouge was a group of followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. This time of period wasn't long but was an impact on our history. The Khmer Rouge had a goal and that was to. Eliminate the entire social order in the country. A task relevantly impossible. Cambodia Genocide was a serious impact on a lot of lives. Khmer Rouge was a Communist Party of Kampuchea. Khmer Kror-Horm was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.…

(1955-1975) Cambodia’s political and social tensions rose so dramatically that they led to war with Vietnam. Cambodia went from celebrating their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, 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…

In the novel, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung uses forgetting the past as a motif. Ung writes: " I was even more determined to make myself a normal American girl. I played soccer. I joined the cheerleading squad. I hung out with my friends and ate a lot of pizza. I cut and curled my hair. I painted my eyes with dark makeup to make my eyes more round and western. I'd hoped being Americanized could erase my memories of the war"(235-236). This quote is significant to my visual and the book…

learn many more things there than the children here” (Ung 130). Cambodian children, just like Loung Ung, were forced into combat through the use of propaganda and persuasion. At many camps throughout Cambodia, children were taught to love and respect the Angkar; they were instructed to put the Khmer Rouge before themselves and die for the cause. These young children were brainwashed to believe the Angkar loves and protects, so going into the war was a service and duty. Knowing any opposition…

I had chosen First They Killed My Father: A Daughter 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…

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…

destruction was concentration camps where they would be overworked, starved and fatigued. At the death camps humans of every age would be gassed and would die. The Cambodian Genocide differed from the Holocaust by the way of extermination. The Khmer Rouge caused Cambodians to have forced labor, where the farmers couldn’t have any of the food they made. If anyone ate the food they grew or didn’t meet the expectations demanded of them, they would be shot on the spot. Ethnic minorities, including…

“The Killing Fields” was based on the Civil War in Cambodia in 1973. Sydney Schanberg who was a New York Time journalist living in Cambodia coving the War with the help of a local representative and his friend Dith Pran. He report on the some of the chaos and tragedy of the War in Cambodia. After the American Military withdraw from the War the communist and non-communist Khmer begun fighting for power. The communist Khmer were killing the Khmer Rouge and individuals who are…