Pol Pot

other professional will become the target of the Khmer Rouge.( Pol Pot,n.pag) If the government knows that somebody stay together and talked. They could be arrested or executed. ( Khmer Rouge History,n.pag)Family relationships were also heavily criticized. People were forbidden to show even the slightest affection, humor or pity.( Khmer Rouge History,n.pag) Children have to leave their parents to join and service for the army (Pol Pot,n.pag).The Khmer Rouge forced people to work more than 12…

The rise to power of Pol Pot’s regime was made possible due to a significant factor being the consequence of the spread of the Vietnam War to Cambodia. Had this not of happened, Pol Pot’s Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge, would have had fewer chances of coming to power. The first Indochina War started in 1946 but it wasn’t until 1955 when the US became involved and like adding fuel to a fire, Cambodia gradually was dragged into the conflict between North Vietnam and the US who supported…

Ponchaud’s journal article, “Le Kampuchéa Démocratique: Une Révolution radicale.”33 Yet Noam Chomsky, one of a number of supporters of the Khmer Rouge movement at the time, launched a vocal attack on Ponchaud’s writings and the writings of other critics of Pol Pot’s regime, accusing them of being anti-communist.34 As an intellectually heavyweight, with his reactions and refusal to accept or acknowledge the genuine way of the revolution in Cambodia, Chomsky muted the alerts sounded by others.…

1. How did you see power being used and/or abused in this book? How would you feel if you were the main character? In the book Sold the person with the power changes throughout the book. At the beginning the person with the power was Lakshmi’s stepfather. He is not able to work but he uses Ama and Lakshmi to his advantage. Ama serves him even though he does not provide anything to the family. He takes the money for himself and gambles it away. He then sells Lakshmi into prostitution without Ama…

The United States supported the Khmer Rouge for various reasons. But what I personally think is that the United States did not support the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot, envisioned a Cambodia absent of any institutions, like banks or religions or any modern technology. “Be the first nation to create a completely Communist society intermediate steps.” The explanation given, meant that they want to be the strongest…

clenches his teeth.” He then leaves and the family then assumes the worst, without directly mentioning it to one. Loung can sense what is going to happen of Pa, and it is in this area of the story where she thinks about the desire to destroy Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, for she goes on later to say, “the water washes away the dirt, but it will never put out the fire of hate that I have for the Khmer Rouge.” It sounds absurd at this point in time, but it seems that Loung would perhaps…

one would travel to. The leader, Pol Pot had a goal to purify the city and make it a communist society. Pol Pot used a variety of strategies to achieve his goal. Pol Pot decided that he wanted Cambodia to start over. What that meant to Pol Pot was to make everything alike and to go his way. Pol Pot banned foreign languages. There was a limit to how long people could use the phone and how much mail they could send. There were also more important factors that Pol Pot got rid of. He stopped…

Although Pol Pot had thousands of new bank notes printed, he eventually deemed all money as worthless, he also curtailed all basic freedoms and every religion was banned in the newly named Kampuchea. A fundamental policy of the Khmer Rouge was Radical Agrarian Marxism…

The Cambodian Genocide all started an April 17, 1975. This is when the Khmer Rouge captured the Cambodian Government. The Khmer Rouge were led by Pol Pot. As soon as they captured Cambodia, they immediately started sending people to labor camps. They sent anyone from a doctor, teacher, rich person, the educated, and many more high classed people. The camps were rough, and many starved to death. Starvation was killing enough people that the Khmer Rouge didn’t feel a need to execute anyone. That…

tortured people in death camps. After just a few days after taking Cambodia, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge started marching civilians out of the cities and into the countryside. The Khmers Rouge forced thousands of people to take up agricultural work, while simultaneously killing thousands more while marching them out of the cities. Cambodia’s cities weren't the only thing lost when the Khmer Rouge took over, along with them Pol Pol abolished money, banned schools and learning facilities, and…