Pol Pot

some believe they are creating paradise, some even are doing good things that destroy everything farther along the road, like deforestation. But all cause terror. All strike a chord of grief and despair in one’s heart. All make others miserable: Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, the list goes on and on. And most of these horrors have at least one thing in common: they have been corrupted by their power. Many people, when they look at all humanity has done, can only say that humans are…

Communists always harp on democracy and free expression. It is another matter that communists are the most authoritarian kind of people and they rarely tolerate dissent. The moment communism comes to our mind we recollect three figures- Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao, who are responsible for the ‘Red Holocaust’. Rohith and his friends are a hooligan brigade, who physically assaulted their ideological rival, Sushil Kumar, just because he opposed their seditious activities and sloganeering. So it…

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…

Who was Ned Kelly? Ned Kelly was born somewhere between 1854 and 1855 at Beveridge, Victoria. His father was an Irishman, John “Red” Kelly who had been transported to Australia for stealing two pigs. His mother was Ellen Quinn. Ned had a pretty hard life growing up as his parents were poor and struggled to make ends meet. He did go to school for a few years, but this stopped when his father died in 1866. Ned was the oldest son so he became the breadwinner for the family. At this time, his…

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down” -Malcolm X. I’m certain that every sane person reading this has never wanted to literally kill someone. We all joke around saying “I’m going to kill you!!” but obviously, we never actually do. What if that actually meant something? What if we really are going to kill you? This has happened many times in this course of human events; and it is by no means wrong to have such serious thoughts. This is not only on the singular person scale,…

Gun control. Two words that have been fought and debated over for hundreds of years. Two words that have caused war in countries around the world. Two words that Communist and Dictatorship parties have used to disarm their own people and others for total control. Now, the United States is facing the same problem more than ever. In this twenty first century, the United States government is try everything they got in their arsenal to win the battle for gun control. The ones who are doing the…

Within every memoir, there has been this common theme of a young individual becoming more exposed to the dangers of the world and how this turns their life as they once knew it, upside down. These authors face some events that one may have never thought possible in their life but also raise many questions about the reliance of their perspective. In each piece of what we assume is non-fiction, comes a problematic nature of what these individuals may have had to create to fulfill a story line.…

Both Japan and Cambodia are countries which belong to Asia, the largest continent on Earth. On the other hand, based on the term “geographical realm”, they are in different realms. One is in East Asia, and the other is in Southeast Asia. They also have the distinction in many aspects such as physical pattern, history, population features, economic and political issues, and socio-cultural issues. The characteristics of Japan and Cambodia will be explored obviously by looking at the similarities…

But the campaign had caused lasting devastation, the exact numbers may never be known, but most historians estimate that millions of Russians were either executed or shipped off to the dreaded Siberian gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the…