Khmer Rouge

silenced left wing men. As time passed the civil conflict among left wing ( agrarian side) and right wing ( city workers) deepened as Vietnam’s existence in Cambodia expanded. As Lon Nol attempted to do a coup in Sihanouk he joined Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, they enlisted in a bloody civil war. Pol Pot emerged victorious and took power, his method to help the crippling economy was communism, only the farmers were allowed to remain, many high tech specialists driven out of the country and some…

In July 1971, Kissinger, did not miss an opportunity to engage in discussions with China. He was sent in secrecy for negotiations that would lead Nixon to lead the first official visit of an American president in PR China on 21 February 1972. The negotiations, hidden behind an aggressive public rhetoric toward the communist threat, were conducted while already, without realizing it to Nixon, Kissinger had already established contacts end of 1969. Kissinger, shows his admiration for China's…

Caught by the Khmer Rouge soldiers while trying to covertly take corn from the fields, he is then beaten close to death and barely makes it to his home. This lies in direct contrast to his earlier statement of what it was like taking food. “Ma, it’s so easy. I never knew…

that could be considered humanitarian, were depicted as sovereignty violations. The response to the 1978 Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia supports this notion. Vietnam’s intervention exposed ‘widespread killings, torture and persecution by the Khmer Rouge’ (Murphy, 1996). However multiple states in the United Nations Security Council ‘held that Vietnam had illegally intervened in Kampuchean internal affairs’ (Arend,1993). When compared with the humanitarian endeavours of the post-Cold War era…

the greater good of revealing the truth to the American people. These journalists hoped their efforts would prompt the United States to help the people of Cambodia, but instead the United States completely abandoned the Cambodians and allowed the Khmer Rouge to take over, unstopped (Joffe 1985). The worse it became for the natives, the more drive the journalists possessed to tell the world about the living conditions. Sydney in an acceptance speech remarked about his drive as a journalist: “What…

Nazi Doctors: Nazi doctors’ motivation to participate in this medical experimentation program was driven by three major factors. These major factors included fear, ambition and ideology. There were also three additional minor factors which included sadism, altruism and revenge. Irrespective of the particular inducing factor, the common motivation was the pursuit of power. There are many examples where fear induced the Nazi doctor to participate. First, refusal to join the program could lead to…

People of the jury, I would like to make notice of why we are here today. Montag, a former fireman, is accused guilty of the killing of Beaty, captain of the firehouse. (Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Simon & Schuster paperbacks, 1951). First off, I would like to address the actions of Captain Beaty. It is difficult to pity a man who took away knowledge, and dared a man to shoot him. Montag, being from the clueless society he lives in, did not think twice about the consequences. As people living…

Book report: Eric D Weitz a Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation Eric D Weitz’s a Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation focuses on four key genocides – the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and the Bosnian war. The topics discussed are very popular, particularly Nazi-Germany and Stalinist Russia, which is worth noting as someone well-read in the topic may not gain any further knowledge from this. A Dean at the City College of New York, who has previously written books on…

2012, 17.7% of the population lived under its national poverty line and Cambodia had a Gini coefficient of 30.8. In 2015, Cambodia ranked 143 out of 188 on the HDI. Cambodia is still recovering from the destruction of its education system by the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979), though impressive gains have been made. In 2015, literacy rates for 15-24 year olds reached 91.54%. In 2014, primary school enrollment rates were 95.3% with a 96.3% completion rate. However, in 2013, enrollment in 7th-9th grades…

Cambodia: Epidemiology and Public Health Description and Health Profile Cambodia is a Southeast Asian country home to 14.5 million people, bordered by Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.1 After the communist Pol Pot regime and era of the Khmer Rouge came to an end in the 1970’s, the country has been slowly recovering from the Cambodian genocide and its ramifications.1 The last twenty years have seen relative stability in Cambodia, which has translated into significant improvements in population…