Khmer Rouge

1. How did you see power being used and/or abused in this book? How would you feel if you were the main character? In the book Sold the person with the power changes throughout the book. At the beginning the person with the power was Lakshmi’s stepfather. He is not able to work but he uses Ama and Lakshmi to his advantage. Ama serves him even though he does not provide anything to the family. He takes the money for himself and gambles it away. He then sells Lakshmi into prostitution without Ama…

their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and resettled others from urban areas to the countryside. Because of all this, Cambodian political and social tensions steadily rose in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. One major aspect…

was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority groups were singled out for persecution and even extermination” (ABC-CLIO). Most of the victims were the Cham, Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer Krom,…

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten:Cambodia’s Lost Rock n’ Roll by John Pirozzi was about Cambodian music, culture and art, and Cambodia’s tragic and disaster past under the Khmer Rouge regime. This movie illustrated how music is a soul of nation that shape Cambodian’s life and tradition itself. In addition, it also portrayed how music, artists and their way of life were affected during the war. There were a lot of interesting facts and details, likes and dislikes and why this movie grasp me in terms of…

Cambodian Genocide took place in Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia. It began shortly after Cambodia’s seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975 and lasted until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1978. North Vietnamese forces seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, in 1975.” Around 156,000 Cambodians died in the civil war, more than half being civilians. Like the Cambodian Genocide, a student from one of the…

Pol Pot, a previous dictator of Cambodia and the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist party, is an example of this. Pol Pot attempted to completely separate his country from the outside world as a radical experiment. Starting with expelling foreigners to purify the nation, he eventually banned foreign languages, shut…

genocide was. What was so awful about this genocide is that the government that was in place, the Khmer Rouge, forced millions of people out of their homes and into the wilderness. People were also forced to work in terrible conditions in labor camps. This relates to the forced labor and heartless treatment of the Jews that the Nazis perpetrated. The group that instigated this genocide was the Khmer Rouge, they rose to power from the Americans constantly bombing Cambodia and killing up to…

Genocide, retold her story about what she experienced during the Cambodian Genocide. She explained how the Khmer Rouge guards would treat the prisoners. The guards took the gall bladders of the deceased prisoners that the guards, themselves, most likely killed, and used them to drink wine (Campbell). Sokha explains the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and how she was treated during the Khmer Rouge. “Sokha also told the U.N. backed ECOC that he witnessed between twenty and one hundred killing in a…

the killing in Cambodia by the group Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were tortured, strangled, and starved. For the “short” time Pol Pot was leader in Cambodia he was responsible for one of the worst mass killings in the 20th century. Pol Pot was a leader in the Khmer Rouge group during the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970’s. He had seized control over the country and quickly renaming it the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. Why would Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge group carry out such a…

Cambodia Remembers because it looked to be the more interesting of the two from the class and if they were assigned I imagined either would be a good choice. Loung Ung, the author, describes in the first person, present tense accounts of how the Khmer Rouge Army, under Pol Pot’s command, forced her and her family from their home and their experience from 1975-1980. She is a nationally known spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World and a Cambodian American human rights activist.…