Melting pot

Walking through the dark, humid jungle, the Ham and Keo families silently worried. Escaping Pol Pot’s wrath on Cambodia was their only goal. Violent memories of bombs being dropped on neighboring villages and experiences in the concentration camps shook their minds. Crunch. Dasie, who was only four, stepped on a twig. Grunting as she walked, a sharp pain in her gut stabbed at her. Thirty-five years later, she would learn that it was a piece of shrapnel from a bomb that detonated near her home.…

Pol Pot was the former totalitarian dictator of Cambodia; he was a mass murderer, had paranoia, and was a megalomaniac. However, his reign only lasted four years because his brutal methods made the state highly unstable. In “Macbeth”, by William Shakespeare, an equally horrible man named Macbeth presides over the kingdom of Scotland. He seems destined to have the same fate as Pot, who had to retreat into hiding after his government crumbled. In “Heart’s Ambition”, Travis Mitchell indirectly…

Pol Pot Pol Pot was the leader of Khmer Rouge. His organization took control in Cambodia on April 17, 1975. Another name for his community was the Communist party of Kampuchea (CPK) the CPK created the democratic state of Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled it until January 1979. The group was kept a secret until 1977 and no one outside the CPK knew who its leaders were. While the Khmer Rouge were in power they set up policies disregarding human life and created repression and massacres on a mass…

PROPOSED ROPOSED CAUSES AND CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OF THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE “... a Kampuchea which is independant, unified, peaceful, neutral, non-aligned, with sovereignty over its territorial integrity, in a society in which happiness, equality, justice, and true democracy reign, without rich or poor, without exploiting class or exploited class, a society in which the entire people lives in harmony and great national unity and bands together to contribute to the production effort and, together…

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE The Khmer Rouge were cambodians communist took control of the Cambodian government in 1975, they strived to make the country into a communist agrarian utopia. In reality, they emptied the cities and evacuated millions of people to labor camps where they were starved and abused. Teachers and doctors and very smart people, as well as monks and the rich anyone else in that position of having wealth were torchered and killed. It is estimated that between 1.7 and 2 million…

The Khmer Rouge’s Rule of Cambodia Is humankind capable of creating another genocide? It was April 17th, 1975 shots were being fired, people running away, it dawned on everyone that the Cambodia’s Government was being seized by the Khmer Rouge. The third genocide in world history was about to begin. It happened in Cambodia, this country is located in the continent of Asia, it is also the 90th largest nation. Their Capital is Phnom Penh. This country has been independent from France since 1953,…

First They Killed My Father Summer Reading Essay The story, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, is one which relies heavily on the use of symbolism. The use of symbolism in the story is necessary to add to the feeling of reading the story. Due to the importance symbolism has in the story, there is a multitude of symbols in the story. Some of the main symbols that changed the reading of the book were things such as Loung’s red dress, Loung’s father, known as Pa and the citizens of Ro Leap…

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…

Saloth Sar was Pol Pot’s real name. Pol pot was a terrible person; he struggled with a bad childhood, become power crazy, and started the Cambodian Genocide. The path that he took made him to become a bad leader. he had many many opportunities in life to be successful in life, but he always ruined the opportunity by doing the wrong things. Pol Pot was a terrible child which lead him to the wrong direction in life. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) was born on “March of 1925, in a little fishing village of…

throughout her childhood and and because this is written by Loung as an adult it is very interesting to see her perception of herself at the age of five. This memoir talks about the tragedies that took place during the Khmer Rouge that was led by Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge tore families apart, killed innocent children and left many to die due to famine. Between 1975 and 1978, there was an estimated number of two million cambodians that died out of the 8 million population. Vietnamese troops invaded…