Lon Nol

intellectually heavyweight, with his reactions and refusal to accept or acknowledge the genuine way of the revolution in Cambodia, Chomsky muted the alerts sounded by others. Foreign intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, were involved in supporting Lon Nol’s regime and would, therefore, has had knowledge of the Khmer Rouge’s murderous methods even before…

party who came into office during Cambodia’s struggle against French colonization. After the first Indochina war in the 1950s, the communist movement in Cambodia began to form. Before Rouge took office, small battles had taken place. In 1970, Marshal Lon Nol, a Cambodian leader, began to battle Rouge and the Vietnamese army he had backing him. Two years later, the Vietnamese turned the fight over to the communist party who then got assistance from the US to drop bombs over Cambodia. By 1973,…

While the campaigns in Cambodia were immensely successful for the United States’ effort in the Vietnam War, it resulted in huge controversy and detrimental losses for the indigenous people. Bombings that would later escalate into an invasion served to destroy enemy sanctuaries hiding in Cambodia. In the tedious and fruitless conflict, Nixon described the invasion as “the most successful military operation of the entire Vietnam War" (qtd. In History.com Staff). Using the domino theory to justify…

homes, the economic and social being of Cambodian society was fragile. In 1970, Marshal Lon Nol lead a military coup that dethroned Prince Sihanouk as a testament to the political climate of Cambodia (Cambodian Genocide « World Without Genocide). He proceeded to drop a half million tons of bombs with U.S. support (The Cambodian Genocide) in early 1973. The Khmer Rouge allied with Sihanouk and fought against Lon Nol’s forces, priming the situation for civil war. Animosity was strong against the…

An Attempt of Restarting a Country to “Year Zero” Today, Cambodia ranks number 43 of the poorest countries in the world (Pasquali). Cambodia is a country in South East Asia and is less than half the size of California. Missing a bridge sentence to connect to theses statement. During the Cambodian Genocide, a group of Communist guerillas took over leaving the people of the country in devastation, with thousands of brutal interrogation centers, until one country saves them. The Rise of the Khmer…

President Richard Nixon’s main policy was the “Vietnamization”; this policy was based on decreasing involvement in Vietnam and to force the Vietnamese to bear responsibility for the war, without the dependence on the United States. This strategy was opposite of the initially policy of the Americanization and in 1965, the United States took control of the war in Vietnam. The thought of Vietnamizing the war occurred before President Nixon arrived to office, and the United States Military…

The line between politicide and genocide is fairly liquid. Some believe they are one in the same while others think they are different from each other. It is something that one person will have an opinion for while the next individual with have another. No answer is wrong or right, it is simply how one interprets it. If one looks at the dictionary definitions of each, they can come to their own conclusion. Politicide is a gradual but systematic attempt to exterminate an independent political…

An emotional piece by Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father, recounts the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime and how she and some members of her family survived the mass killings. The autobiography is told from Loung Ung’s point of view as an adult looking back at what happened from ages five to nine. The events of this tragedy happens in three parts: before the Khmer Rouge takeover, under the Khmer Rouge reign and life afterwards. While living under Khmer Rouge regime, Ung tells of life in…

with aggressive regression against left wing. Pol Pot was one of those 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…

became his party’s secretary general. During being secretary general he had a fear of being arrested so Pot fled Phnom Penh. During his hiding in 1970 the leader of Cambodia was overthrown of his power and replaced by a new leader by the name of Lon Nol, who had support from the U.S. After the civil war that took place and including the bombing from the U.S. trying to prevent communist leaders from going in to control, later that spring of 1975 the Khmer Rouge army took control of Phnom Penh.…