Norodom Sihanouk

Pol Pot: Beast of the Southeast Of all the cruel and horrendous tyrants history has bedeviled upon humanity, Pol Pot is among the most evil and unforgiving. It was under his rule that from 1975 to 1979, millions of innocent lives were snuffed out during an event known as the Cambodian Genocide. The Cambodian Genocide was an effort by the tyrannical government of Cambodia, known as the Khmer Rouge, to establish a perfect communist utopia. They planned to do this by disposing of anyone in the…

The Cambodian Genocide was an event where a mass amount of Cambodians were killed for their ethnic differences. The website states, “The 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.”…

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,…

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…

In this memoir of First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the narrator faces many difficulties 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…

Imagine you’re world being turned around from living peacefully and happy to murdering people that you don’t want just to stay alive. This is what people had to go through in Cambodia when Khmer Rouge, a radical Communist regime, came to power in 1975. They started to move people in the countryside and made everyone work, even childrens. Millions of people died by starvation and sickness. In Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick, people’s physiological states changes three ways, person's…

While on the road to the country, people attempted to sell, trade, and barter cigarettes and what little food they had, however, the money to buy these things had become worthless in the course of a day. Overnight, the rich and poor were equal. They could both only carry what little items they had, and at each checkpoint they were searched. If a person had possessions such as; cameras, radios, books, or currency, they were immediately stripped of them. The Khmer Rouge believed that tangible…