Norodom Sihanouk

How do you get a whole city or country to follow your every word? Is it with kindness, charm and leadership or do you feed them false hope and lies with propaganda. The Khmer Rouge a communist guerrilla groups led by Pol Pot wanted a new Cambodia free of all western influences, corruption and Lon Nol. After a five years civil war with Lon Nol’s army the Khmer Rouge on April 17 1975 overtook Cambodia capitol Phnom Penh ending the civil war. Many thought it was a change for the better and a time…

The Indonesian Genocide 1965-1966 was an anti-communist attack, tat lead to the overthrown president Kusno Sokarno being replaced by Suharto who was an army general. Killings followed a coup that took place on October 1, 1965, in Jakarta. This coup killed six army generals, and it formed a revolutionary council, seizing power from Sukarno. General Suharto was elected as President, filling in for Sukarno. Suharto led the genocide that killed about 1 million people, and left 100,000 people…

The Cambodian Genocide was a mass killing of many Cambodians. Very few events have occurred with so much terror and bitterness as 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…

Almost 3 million dead. 80% of children orphaned. In pursuit of what was seen as the “greater good”, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge destroyed the country and, in only 30 years, left scars that may never heal. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were motivated to commit the Cambodian Genocide because of Pol Pot’s desire to create an anti-individualist communist utopia and because of his government officials' need to preserve their power through any means necessary. Pol Pot’s Ideology Pol Pot learned of marxism…

North Vietnam and the US who supported the South. The spread of the Vietnam War to Cambodia was mainly the consequence of the US bombing campaign and their involvement in Cambodia during the Vietnam War which fuelled Pol Pot’s regime. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the leader of Cambodia, promoted ideologies of nationalism and was determined to maintain his country’s independence…

The country was ruled by France for almost one hundred years until it gained independence in 1953. According to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, all power was given to Norodom Sihanouk until 1970 when he was forcibly removed from office by Lon Nol, the Cambodian Lieutenant-General. Sihanouk and his loyal disciples fled and joined a communist group called the Khmer Rouge. Civil war soon started between the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, and the Khmer Republic, ruled by Lon Nol. Not…

Chapter I: Introduction 1. Background Information After the end of World War II, the interdependence among sovereign states began to emerge all over the globe. States started to cooperate with one another in terms of politics, economics, and security in order to promote the prosperity and peace of their territories. Particularly, The Kingdom of Cambodia, one of the countries that suffered from experience of colonialism, has strengthened the international relation with one of the superpowers…

was hundreds of thousands of them. They just didn’t want to be in Cambodia anymore so a lot of families got on boats and sailed into the ocean. They knew the Americans were going to save them. But then in 1991 a peace agreement was signed in Paris. Sihanouk became king again in 1993 because the monarchy was restored. In 1997, Hun Sen didn’t like how things were going so he started an uprising against the Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, and replaces him with Ung Huat (“Cambodia…