History

05.04 Holocaust: Honors
What Do I Submit?
How does the Holocaust compare with other well-documented instances of genocide?
Choose an example from those listed below. Research the facts and write a five-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting another instance of genocide with the Nazi Holocaust. * Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 * Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 * Rwanda: 1994 * Darfur: 2003
In your essay, be sure to: * recount historical facts accurately * cite any outside sources
To begin your research you may want to start with one of these sources: * The History Place * "A Brief History of Genocide"

If Holocaust were the worst mass murder of the world then, I thought Pol Pot was the most insane destruction in Cambodian. Pol Pot was born in 1925 in a farming family in central Cambodia, which was part of French Indochina. At age 20, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics and absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies. He returns to Cambodia in 1953 after he lost his scholarship and joined the underground Communist. 1962, Pol Pot became leader of Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape the wrath of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia. In there, he formed an armed group that became known as Khmer Rouge and waged a guerilla war against Sihanouk’s government.
In 1970, Prince Sihanouk was ousted when due to a U.S.-backed right-wing military coup; then joining Pol Pot, his former enemy, in opposing Cambodia’s new military government. That year, U.S. invaded Cambodia to expel the North Vietnamese from their border encampments and allied with the Khmer Rouge.
From 1963 to 1973, the U.S. intermittently bombed North Vietnam, killing up 150,000 Cambodian peasants. In 1975, the U.S. had withdrawn its troops from Vietnam and Cambodia’s government plagued by corruption and incompetence, so lost its American military support.
Pol Pot was using that opportunity marched into Phnom Penh and seized control of Cambodia on April 17. Then he began a radical experiment to create an agrarian utopia inspired in part by Mao Zedong’s Revolution which he had witnessed first-hand during a visit to China. Mao’s Great Leap Forward forced evacuations of Chinese cities and the purging of class enemies. Pol Pot would now attempt his own Super Great Leap Forward in Cambodia and renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.
He began his rule and society was about to be purified. All foreigners were expelled, embassies closed, foreign economic or medical assistance was refused, and foreign languages were banned. Newspapers and television stations were shut down. Radio and bicycles confiscated. Mailed and telephone usage curtailed. Money was forbidden. All businesses were shut, religion was banned, education halted, health care eliminated, parental authority revoked. He was completely sealed Cambodia off from the outside world.
Holocaust was a great massive murder because Hitler blamed on Jews and slaying disability people from that time. While Pol Pot in Cambodia was sealed off from the outside world and slaying own people to create a new utopia.