Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia

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Located in eastern Asia Cambodia lies between Thailand and vietnam. Cambodia is surrounded by beautiful mountains and mysterious rainforests. Although with lots of beautiful geographical structures Cambodia's government lacked stability. Starting in 1975 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge army took over Cambodia and started a communist country, while killing 25 percent of Cambodia's population(Pol). Through raising tensions between local countries and Cambodia, the Cambodian Killing Fields were…

was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority groups were singled out for persecution and even extermination” (ABC-CLIO). Most of the victims were the Cham, Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer Krom,…

was the result of the Khmer Rouge, which was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people. They murdered many different groups including the Vietnamese, in and around the borders of the country, the Chinese, Muslim Chams, Buddhist monks, and even some Khmers, that they saw as traitors. They almost exterminated every ethnic group in Cambodia (289). The Khmer Rouge desired for Cambodia to be as they once were in the Angkor Empire, a powerful nation. The Khmer Rouge idolized the empire…

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic murder of a certain group of people. Basically, the Cambodian genocide was the attempt of Pol Pot and his party, the Khmer Rouge to take over Cambodia and apply communist ideals to the country. The genocide started in 1975 and lasted until 1979 in Cambodia. According to Britannica Encyclopedia, the book Cambodia, ABC-Clio, Gale Reference Library, and the Yale website, more than 1 million people died by starvation, disease, overworking or even getting…

First They Killed My Father, recounts the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime and how she and some members of her family survived the mass killings. The autobiography is told from Loung Ung’s point of view as an adult looking back at what happened from ages five to nine. The events of this tragedy happens in three parts: before the Khmer Rouge takeover, under the Khmer Rouge reign and life afterwards. While living under Khmer Rouge regime, Ung tells of life in the country which was different…

the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia tells his story. The author conveys the fact that the citizens of Cambodia faced hardships and this actually happened to them. The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party based in Kampuchea, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge did all kinds of harsh things such as home invasions, tortured many innocent citizens for fun, and even killing citizens without warning. The Khmer Rouge was…

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 him, followed by his…

aspects of this stage. During dehumanization, one group begins to deny the humanity of another group. In turn, this allows the group to disparage the victims and progress towards the eventual extermination. Hate propaganda also begins to emerge. The Khmer Rouge believed that only “pure” people were qualified to build the revolution, and targeted minorities and intellectuals and defined them as “impure.” Minorities were heavily persecuted and were not allowed to practice their religion and…

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…