Khmer Rouge

actions of the Khmer Rouge government weren’t much different. It was mainly to better the government and they didn’t care about who got in their way. The Khmer Rouge government began targeting certain groups for destruction. In the regime's eyes, two different kinds of people existed in Cambodia- old people and new people. The new people were undesirable because they were influenced by foreign values, and did not live agrarian lives. Other groups targeted for extermination by the Khmer Rouge…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…

The United States, China, and the United Nations Security Council highly opposed the international efforts to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice for the fear that it could potentially bring up very difficult issues. Most Cambodians try to ignore the genocide for the fact that it hurts too much to relive those horrific memories. In 1995, mass graves began to be uncovered, showing…

genocide in Cambodia. CAUSES Social cause. The Cambodian Genocide, which caused by the desire of Pol Pot, has killed almost 2 million people. Cambodia, which has the history of nearly 100 years of colonialist rule, and Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge was an admirer of “Mao” (Chinese) communism, want to change it. “Pol Pot envisioned the creation of a “new” Cambodia based on the Maoist-Communist model”. Pol Pot…

unbearable conditions. This is due to the fact that on April 17, 1975 Pol Pot commenced mass murders of the upper and middle class Cambodians. Starvation spread like a disease throughout Cambodia because of past government issues, the work of the Khmer Rouge, and failed attempts of aid. Not only was Cambodia in the middle of a civil war, but the country was also caught up in the Vietnam war. At this time Vietnam was fighting against the French, whom Cambodia gained independence from on…

in order to eradicate North Vietnam troops, and “the Khmer Rouge went to civil war with the U.S. backed “Khmer Republic,” under lieutenant-general Lon Nol. Lon Nol’s government assumed a pro-Western, anti-Communist stance, and demanded the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from Cambodia”(Cambodian Genocide), but there were still some organizations in Cambodia that did not like the US. Lon Nol now faced enemies in Khmer Rouge and needed the US to support their financial system…

regime, and this is her story. In 1969 a man by the the of Viet Cong invaded cambodia when she was only four years of age. Her family was forced to leave and moved around Cambodia during this she lost both her brothers due to lack of medical care. When Rouge was in power in 1975, her family was forced to go to a labor camp. When they arrival her father was killed because he was an educated person. The rest of family had to agricultural work and they only had a small amount of food. They were…

The Pol Pot in Cambodia Genocide was a major genocide which occurred from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot’s army was named Khmer Rouge. This army consisted of teenage guerilla fighters, refraining guerilla’s s because they fought guerilla style. The goal of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge was to turn the country of Cambodia into a communist country. People were moved from their cities and forced to go to labor camps. At these labor camps, the people were starved, tortured and killed. All eight stages of genocide…

was meant to restart the country in a new “Year Zero.” The Cambodian Genocide was led by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; while they did not simply want to rid Cambodia of all its people, the actions and ideas of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge led to a horrific ending. The goal of the Cambodian Genocide was to turn the country into a communist agrarian utopia (United to End Genocide.) The Khmer Rouge wanted to re-educate an entire country with their own new laws and values, this is what led to mass…

population that had been projected in 1970” (p. 327). Though many of the natives of Cambodia died from the bombings associated with the US before the war, many of the rest of the natives ultimately 1.7 million deaths “… are attributable to the Khmer Rouge” (p.…