Khmer Rouge

demand for all of their goods and if they would refuse they would be shot which was known as “Kristallnacht” or the “night of the broken glass”. On the other hand the Cambodian government had been overthrown by the Khmer Rouge, from there it was all downhill for the Cambodians. The Khmer Rouge had forced people out of their homes to go on a journey to the countryside and if you were either unfit or unwilling to go on this journey you would be killed. In regarding both the Holocaust and the…

who exactly Khmer Rouge is and what it’s intent is through the struggles of a little girl to do the same. The adults in this story already know the goals and aims of the Khmer Rouge, making this scene from their point of view unhelpful in allowing the readers to understand who the Khmer Rouge…

his wife and baby once again. Although he was able to hide in the forest, his wife and children were shot in the countryside by the Khmer Rouge. Finally, he now works at the former prison, which is a museum, as his way of ensuring nothing like this happens again. Through this story, I learned just how horrendous conditions were for those living under the Khmer Rouge, especially those who were uprooted from their…

during the Khmer Rouge Regime. She tells us the troubles that she faces throughout the book and how her life has been affected by the atrocious period. I was able to gain a lot of knowledge from this book. And how this era of time has changed her, even after she was able to leave to go to America. Pran, Dith, and Kim DePaul. Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1997. Print. This book is full of memoirs from people who have survived under the…

Vietnam War. In the movie the United States starts bombing Cambodia causing people to flee Cambodia. A man named “Ung” shows regret in trusting the Americans. Ung which goes by “Pa” to his children has to leave the city his family is in because the Khmer Rouge tells him that city will bombed by the United States. The family flees from their city and and go to the kids Uncle the brother of the mother of the children. The Uncle’s wife is begins to worry what would happen to them if they found out…

is genocide. Death, disease, and fear run rampant as corruption feeds off innocent people trapped in genocide. In two memoirs, All But My Life and When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge, survivors, Gerda Weissman Klein and Chanrithy Him…

Growing up in the United States, my mother's side of the family would annually host a day to pray to our passed relatives; they suffered a distressing escape from the Vietnam War just to integrate back into normal society. Despite some of my relatives say we had the fortune of a red envelope, numerous family members told me that the Communists caused us to suffer. At five years old, I believed everything they said; especially things from my parents because I was naive. After all these years, I…

the Khmer Rouge. In this paper, I will argue about there are not that much difference in treatment inside the settlement camp and the Khmer Rouge. First, the reason that Cambodians came to the US is protection. They became refugees because they fled Cambodia which at the time Cambodia is being ruled by the Khmer Rouge, which have done unspeakable horrific acts to the people of Cambodia (genocide). “Responding to the subsequent…

clearly marked and targeted for genocide. After being forced by the Khmer Rouge…

War”). In Cambodia it has been estimated that anywhere between one and a half and three million people were killed during the four year period (“Cambodian Genocide”). Also both genocides were products of the government. In the case of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge took control following the civil war and then turned the murderous tactics they used previously to take power, against the general population. In Rwanda, following the death of the president, the militiamen that formerly reported to him,…