Khmer Rouge

Beginning of this semester, we had to write a paper on what Genocide meant and the cause of Genocide. In that paper, I stated that I know a little bit about Genocide because of the media but I don’t know anything as to how it had happened or the causation. In the media, it mainly focuses on the Holocaust and Genocide in Darfur but there seems to be no discussion on other Genocide that had happened or happening. I was surprised to learn about the Armani Genocide and Cambodian Genocide because it…

Cambodia is facing many crises that violate their rights as human beings. Having their land taken by corrupt politicians, or having their freedom to express their thoughts censored to being forced to partake in a demeaning industry where they are forced to due hard labor with little to no pay. Land grabbing leaves families in a state of loss and anger. Freedom of speech and expression takes away the right the citizens had when the United States brought democracy to the country, leaving their…

from his family by two Khmer Rouge soldiers strikes a horrifically memorable tune, as it reminds all viewers of the heartbreaking reality of the situation – Pa knows that “bridge-building” is really a euphemism for execution and that he will never see his family again. Moreover, the film makes superb use of audio to heighten the audience’s sensations – in the scene where Luong, Chou, and Kim run off at the bidding of their mother, but are spotted by a group of Khmer Rouge in the forest, the…

The protagonist (or leading character of the book) is Sundara. Sandara is the girl who fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army. In this book there is no antagonist, but there is more main characters like Pon, Jonathan, Jonathan’s Mother, Grandmother, Mrs.Cathcart, Ravy, Soka, Jonathan’s Father, Cathy, Naro. A setting that I found in the book was on a Saturday morning where Naro, Soka, and Grandma were heading to the Chinese grocery store in Salem. The mood at this…

Guzman’s visit to the People republic of China, deriving influences from Maoist theories. He expanded upon those concepts of communist ideological foundation by including tactics drawn from Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Russia’s Stalin, furthermore Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Founded in the 1970’s, following Guzman criticism of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP). Guzman’s philosophy…

Imagine walking on the sidewalk of a great city, where buildings are surrounding everything that is seen, in each corner there is more building with shops. People come running past and everything suddenly becomes dark. Shots are fired from every corner, men with guns come out of nowhere and start yelling to follow them to the countryside or they will shoot. All around there are dead people lying on the ground. Some are dead; some are still suffering from the gun wounds that have been received…

With beautiful beaches, delicate and aromatic cuisine, mystical temples, a cosmopolitan capital and a long history that culminated in recent tragedies, Cambodia is one of the most exciting tourism destinations in Southeast Asia. Enthusiasts of ancient civilizations will be delighted with the amazing architectural heritage left from Buddhist and Hindu emperors, but there are other attractions and plenty to do in Cambodia: historical tours through the country, a dive in the beautiful beaches, or a…

The purpose of In the Wake is to examines the effect of social, cultural, and political exclusion of black lives in society (after slavery) by implementing the metaphor of “wake” and using it in various ways. Alongside, Sharpe uses similes, first person, symbolism, repetition, and quotation from numerous other authors to look at the historical and social processes, and “to tell a story capable of engaging and countering the violent of abstraction”. Since the word “wake” is a homonym, the author…

for obedience, trustworthiness, political beliefs, and endurance of pain. Torturers would have to be trained in interrogational torture. She accepts that perhaps training is not necessary as many are able to harm others without it; however, the Khmer Rouge Manual for Torture…

haunted by his memories. “Lotta word have this one sound I can’t make: th. Thanks, think, thunder. Also this sound in the middle of some word, some very important word, like bathroom. Very important sound, this th. But we don’t have this sound in Khmer. So my tongue can’t do it. But Pat, she say it over and over and over. Get close to my face, closer and closer she get; her tongue, she show it to me, pushing on her front teeth, like she gonna eat me. And I spit her. Right in the…