Khmer Rouge

called the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government with the intent of creating a communist utopia (“The Cambodian Genocide”). Creating a utopia is no easy feat, so the Khmer Rouge targeted anyone and everyone who was even slightly urbanized. In order to select those to…

just fighting their own communists, the Khmer Rouge, but now also had to deal with the United States fighting Vietnamese communists that crossed the border ("Cambodia 1975, Before the Genocide").That devastating neighboring war was added on top of Cambodia’s own war, doubling the devastation done for Cambodia as a…

Staying Alive and Surviving the Khmer Rouge: The Important Emotion of Determination in First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung This study will define the important role of determination in the survival skills of a young Cambodian girl in the book First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. This book defines the horrific experiences of a girl named Loung Ung in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge took control of the government in the mid-1970s. Ung (2006) describes the determination that was needed to…

was a reality. Running down the gravel road with tears in your eyes as you are told you are going to a forced labor camp where beatings happen everyday, many Cambodians have to face this reality. The Khmer Rouge group took over Cambodia and made the civilian lives a living hell. The Khmer Rouge group was a terrorist group that led Cambodia. They forced Cambodians out of their homes an put them into labor camps. The labor camps were hell on land, they imitated concentration camps in many…

The Khmer Rouge were radical communists who came to power during Cambodia’s civil war in retaliation to American bombing of ten million farms. Using the Vietnam War as an excuse, the Khmer Rouge overthrew the government, promising the people hope and peace from wars and foreign intervention. The victims of the genocide were doctors, teachers, monks, journalists, merchants, artists, students, minorities, elders, rivals, and random families. Using their power, the Khmer Rouge classified the…

In the book Never Fall Down, the author shows themes through conflicts Arn Chorn-Pond, and others in Khmer Rouge labor camps encounter against the Khmer Rouge, the environment and even sometimes themselves. One such theme is perseverance. Throughout Arn’s time in the camps, he experiences conflicts against the Khmer Rouge, other camp members and even the environment itself, that test the very limits of human life but he continues to preserver despite all of this. On one occasion Arn along with…

murdered by the neglect of the Khmer Rouge (Marshall).This genocide was one of the biggest mass killings of the twentieth century (Winckelmann 35). Within three years of Pol Pot’s reorganization of Cambodia, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were dying of starvation and disease (Bergin 36). Elderly people were suffering from mistreatment and deprivation (Bergin 34). Some of the people that were put in the camps were too sick or weak to work; this means that the Khmer Rouge saw them fit to be…

Members of the Khmer Rouge, an extremist Cambodian political party, believe they should not be held responsible for the killing of 1.7 million Cambodians during the Cambodian Genocide. Each member gives different reasons, as seen in the article “I Will Not Take Responsibility - Ta An”, by Titthara; the interview “In An Interview, Pol Pot Declares His Conscience Is Clear”, by Mydans; the documentary “New Year Baby”, by Poeuv; and the documentary “Cambodia: Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge”, by…

Vietnamese refugees is through their experiences with war in their homeland. War in Cambodia was a product to the uprising of the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge was the communist party in Cambodia which was led by Pol Pot. Due to their loyalty and training, they were able to take over various regions which include areas both inside and outside of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge followed Pol Pot’s simple rule: “In the armed forces, use what is necessary—do not use what is not yet necessary” (Feingold).…

The Cambodian immigration all started due to the Khmer rouge and the Vietnam army wanting to invade Cambodia. The invasion was announced by President Richard Nixon on April 30th of 1970. President Richard Nixon had been ordering to bomb Cambodia for months before he actually announced declaring an invasion. The Khmer rouge began to take control on April 17, 1975 and their army was led by Pol Pot. I believe the Cambodian immigrants coming to America was a good decision because they were able to…