Pol Pot

the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia INTRODUCTION The Khmer Rouge is a term coined by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, literally meaning ‘Red Khmers’, to describe the Communist Party of Kampuchea, led by Saloth Sar, or more commonly known as Pol Pot. From 1975-1979, the Khmer Rouge seized power over Cambodia and conducted the tragic Cambodian genocide. Inspired by Maoism, they believed in the creation of a classless, communal society to achieve equality of all, and enforced this through…

in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge was led by Pol Pot who was also known as ‘Brother Number One’. During this era, it is believed that as many as 3 million people were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia was mostly an agricultural country, however Pol Pot decided it should be a completely agricultural country. This forced people from towns and cities to move to the countryside. People were pressured to work very long hours to grow extra rice, due to Pol Pot deciding that the agricultural…

to Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime. He was a communist leader and implemented extremist policies. The “Khmer Rouge army marched into Phnom Penh...forcing all of its residents to leave behind all their belongings and march towards the countryside” (“Cambodian Genocide”) to work as farmers, similar to concentration camps. Civil rights were stripped from all the citizens; “...under the communists the country was much worse than it had ever been…” (Ngor, Haing, Roger Warner 4). Pol Pot…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…

Pol Pot, a previous dictator of Cambodia and the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist party, is an example of this. Pol Pot attempted to completely separate his country from the outside world as a radical experiment. Starting with expelling foreigners to purify the nation, he eventually banned foreign languages…

First They Killed My Father Essay The book First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung takes place in Cambodia during the Cambodian Genocide. The Cambodian Genocide is the action of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who killed many people based on ethnicityt. The main character, Loung Ung, lives in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge takes over Phnom Penh forcing Loung and her family to flee the capital. Loung's three older siblings are forced to go work at different…

She lost both her parents and five siblings during Pol Pot’s regime, and this is her story. In 1969 a man by the the of Viet Cong invaded cambodia when she was only four years of age. Her family was forced to leave and moved around Cambodia during this she lost both her brothers due to lack of medical care…

of the Armenian Genocide was to slaughter an entire body of people whereas the Cambodian Genocide was meant to restart the country in a new “Year Zero.” The Cambodian Genocide was led by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; while they did not simply want to rid Cambodia of all its people, the actions and ideas of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge led to a horrific ending. The goal of the Cambodian Genocide was to turn the country into a communist agrarian utopia (United to End Genocide.) The Khmer Rouge…

The Cambodian Genocide The Cambodian genocide lasted from 1975-1979 and killed “approximately 1.7 million people” (Kiernan). The Cambodian genocide was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority…

of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of Cambodia’s population. He wanted to destroy any intelligence his people had. So…