Khmer Rouge

Music is a defining feature of culture, and likewise a loss of music culture can have a giant effect on an overall culture. This is the case in Cambodia, where the effects of the Khmer Rouge and the loss of both a musical and cultural identity have occurred.1 Due to this, there has been a movement to restore traditional Khmer music and other cultural art.2 Through a variety of studies, this situation has been documented to a large extent. The current research focuses on the nature of the music…

genocide used a gendered defense by explaining that she was “incapable of committing such acts-as a woman and mother.” (Deem, Slide 38) In Cambodia under the power of the Khmer Rouge party, many women acted as both perpetrators and victims in the genocide. Motivated by trying to rapidly establish an industrial powerhouse the Khmer Rouge party targeted social class in their genocide. Female victims of the genocide included any person who could feasibly work in the labor camps. Chin Meth was…

real Sopeap Sin. Before Sang Ly asks Sopeap to teach her to read, before Sopeap moves to Stung Meanchey, before Sopeap starts going by the name of Sopeap, she calls herself Soriyan Song. Soriyan, a teacher during the time before the power of the Khmer Rouge, loses her sense of self in the guilt that she carries over her housekeeper’s sacrifice and the death of her husband and infant son. Only she survives because her housekeeper Sopeap dies in her place. Soriyan then spends her life in…

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down” -Malcolm X. I’m certain that every sane person reading this has never wanted to literally kill someone. We all joke around saying “I’m going to kill you!!” but obviously, we never actually do. What if that actually meant something? What if we really are going to kill you? This has happened many times in this course of human events; and it is by no means wrong to have such serious thoughts. This is not only on the singular person scale,…

Science and technology are surely evolving but the masses are not. They are getting ever worse! This age is owned, ruled and dominated by brutes. Their philosophy holds that might makes right. But they do their bidding covertly, secretively just like secret societies have been doing for ages. Kings and emperors of the past were responsible for their people, today’s masters are not! They are above the law! They are criminals! Lesser people have risen to power and are subjugating other lesser…

The rise to power of Pol Pot’s regime was made possible due to a significant factor being the consequence of the spread of the Vietnam War to Cambodia. Had this not of happened, Pol Pot’s Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge, would have had fewer chances of coming to power. The first Indochina War started in 1946 but it wasn’t until 1955 when the US became involved and like adding fuel to a fire, Cambodia gradually was dragged into the conflict between North Vietnam and the US who supported…

How did they define Genocide?Genocide is a Mass murder is the carefully planned killing of a large groupof people, especially those of a particular group of people related by culture, race, religion, etc.or nation.What were examples given of mass-murdering acts?The Holocaust, After comingto power in 1933, Germany's Nazi Party put into use a highly organizedway of reaching goals of abuse, murder and mass murder aimed at related to groups of people who have the same history "purifying" Germany, a…

about 19 years. This war was an effort to halt the spread of communism, the Anti- communist forces consisted of South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Khmer Republic, Kingdom of Laos and the Philippines. The communist forced consisted of North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and Pathet Lao. The main reason the U.S became involved in this war was to stop another country from turning to communism. Thousands of Americans at this time were drafted into the war…

McCormick. Never Fall Down brings the life of Arn Chorn-Pond, a boy from a village in Cambodia into the public eye for all of us to see. Arn’s village was seized and harassed by the Khmer Rouge, then taken and enslaved to work the land and die of disease. Arn’s torture is changed however when he volunteers to be part of the Khmer Rouge’s musical group, where he meets friends that will help him while he strives to survive the war and stay numb to the killing. Throughout…

what they are doing was right. When the NATO and the USA intervened to stop the Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina this was considered humanitarian intervention, it was considered good, an act of heroism by the west. So why when Vietnam stopped the Khmer Rouge was it not considered a humanitarian intervention. It is because the US “bitterly opposed them and moved very quickly to punish those who had carried out the prime of ending these slaughters (Chomsky, 2013). The issue with this is it…