Khmer Rouge

Since they were the newcomers, they had to live under the rules and regulations of the Khmer Rouge, which caused lack of privacy in the Ung family., the quote from the text that supports this on page 317 ‘ In this village….. “We all live in a communal system and share everything. There is no private ownership… Everything belongs to the Angkar.” (Ung 317) This is saying that once you move into the Khmer Rouge village you are prohibited from doing many things you are used to.…

“Equal” and “Free” - There is a Difference The Qing dynasty has proven a relevant component of Chinese society for centuries. However, as indicated by the dynastic cycle, its conclusion was inevitable. Because its traditional ways have been perceived as the cause of the foreign control of economic resources in which nationalism has been triggered, such has arrived in the form of revolution. Those responsible for said revolution are commonly…

The first similar phase of genocide was the categorization of hated groups. Investigated by the USHMM (2015), throughout Europe the difference between “Inferior” and “Superior” races became a common thought process. The races considered “Inferior” were Jews, Roma gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Polish, upon others. While these groups were classified as “Inferior” Hitler often referred to the Aryan race as the pure race of the world. The categorization of these “Inferior” groups…

their childhoods to war and how these childhood experiences in war has shaped their lives to who they are today. In excerpts from the memoir, "from First They Killed my Father", Loug Ung describes a personal account of her experiences during the Khmer Rouge years. In excerpts from the memoir, “A Long Way Gone”, Ishmael Beah tells the story of how he swept up in the war as a child and how he survived this life changing event. In Ishmael’s memoir, “A Long Way Gone”, he describes how his childhood…

deportation was 300,00 people in the summer and fall of 1942. Similar in amount of murders, The Killing Fields of Cambodia had rapid death rates. Of just a period of 4 years, more than 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives in the hands of Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge had money, free markets, normal schooling, private schooling, and etc. abolished. Traditional black outfits were forced to be worn while inside the camps. The Cambodian Killing and The Holocaust had many similarities. One of the…

Outside Influence Leading to Genocide In Cambodia, glasses marked people for death. Glasses were seen as a sign of outside influence, something the Khmer Rouge wanted to eliminate. While studying the Cambodian genocide, key elements such as outside influence, such as from colonization and from the Vietnam War seem to have lead the perpetrators to commit genocide. Colonization by France left lasting psychological effects and an unstable government. The actions by the U.S. taken during the Vietnam…

After arriving at a Khmer Rouge in Cambodia prisoner, Ranachith Yimsut, describes the horrendous scenes around him. Describing the prisoners already there as a “sad sight to see” because many of the people “died in front of [him] from heat stroke, sickness, exhaustion, and starvation”…

Looking at these two cases, it seems that a genocidal regime can crop up in any country. After all, Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in a democratic system, while the Khmer Rouge proved that it is possible to take over a country by force. However, this is not the case. Comparative studies have been conducted between genocides of the twenty and twenty first century cases of genocide and four conditions have commonly been found to have been present. It has been proposed that if one of these…

communist party known as the Khmer Rouge. They were taken over and thousands of Cambodians were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. It really opened my eyes to how broken people’s souls are but how beautiful they can become. At the Genocide Museum I saw numerous Cambodian people on their knee praying and sobbing. The museum showed all the tools that the Khmer Rouge used to torture the Cambodians. I saw photos of victims, the prison cells they were kept in, and photos of the Khmer Rouge staff. An…

Remember the Holocaust? That was a terrible time during World War Two. Twelve million people died, The whole world was changed. Everyone knows about the Holocaust but, not as many people know about the Cambodian genocide which lasted from 1975 to 1979. Like the Holocaust, this genocide went unnoticed for a long duration of the event. Ten million more people died during the Holocaust than the Cambodian genocide, for both genocides, it was extremely difficult to rebuild the countries, and for both…