What is it that brings all dictators together in comparison? Is it their ruthless actions towards others? Could it be their thirst for power? Or maybe it’s the fact that all dictators use others to gain for themselves. "He [Napoleon] would only be too happy to let you make your decisions by yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions‚ comrades‚ and then where would we be?" (Orwell page 50). These examples prove Napoleon‚ ruler of Animal Farm‚ and Pol Pot‚ ruler of Cambodia‚ are indeed
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Power and Control: The Khmer Rouge There are many genocides that people are not aware of. One of them is the attempted genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge was able to gain power and remain in control of Cambodia for years without interference because they isolated the country from any foreign influence. Other countries had no idea what was happening inside Cambodia until years later. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot‚ wanted to create their own ideal communist
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hmialon@emory.edu‚ Phone: 404-408-8333‚ Fax: 404-727- 4639); Sue H. Mialon‚ Department of Economics‚ University of North Dakota‚ Grand Forks‚ ND 58202 (E-mail: sue.mialon@und.edu‚ Phone: 701-777-3349‚ Fax: 701-777-3365). 1 “Let Bygones Be Bygones.” Khieu Samphan‚ former head of state of the Khmer Rouge government‚ asking Cambodians to forget the more than one million people who died under his government’s rule. I. Introduction Sunk costs are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered
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“purification of the populace” that the killings began. On January 2‚ 2001 the Cambodian government passed legislation to try a limited number of the Khmer Rouge leadership. Trials began on February 17‚ 2009. On August 7‚ 201‚ Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were convicted and received life sentences for crimes against humanity during the
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WHY IS WAR A NECESSARY EVIL There is no double that war is evil‚ human suffering in the biggest man-made disaster. It brings death and destruction‚ hunger and dieses‚ and run in its wake. If looking back to the havoc war only brings destructive effects to social and economic of this world. However‚ according to Richard Gabriel nations normally just customarily measure the ‘costs of war’ in dollars‚ lost production‚ or the number of soldiers killed or wounded. Rarely do military establishments
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Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political‚ or cultural group. When most people think of genocide‚ it is the Holocaust. There have been genocides that even today there is not much history on. Many more genocides happened during the Holocaust‚ but many also happened after and continue to happen today. The Holocaust targeted people of Jewish descent and people of Jewish religion. Hitler resulted in the Final Solution‚ which meant executing all the Jews. This
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BALAOING‚ Patrize Aerielle A. BSTM 2-1D Lee Kuan Yew‚ GCMG‚ CH (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew‚ 16 September 1923)‚ is a Singaporean politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Singapore‚ governing for three decades. He is also widely recognised as the founding father of modern Singapore. Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969)‚ born Nguyễn Sinh Côn‚ or Nguyễn Sinh Cung‚ also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc‚ was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955)
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Tamika Borschman Semester Two Outcome One (Major Assessment) The Killing Fields Were Inevitable (1. What were the happenings proceeding the event of the Killing Fields?) During the last three decades‚ Cambodia has suffered through war‚ political disorder and genocide. On April 17th 1975 after winning the civil war‚ the Khmer Rouge gained the control of the Phnom Penh. This communist guerrilla group led by Pol Pot would cause unimaginable devastation and misery throughout Cambodia
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Economic history of Cambodia Cambodia was a farming area in the first and second millennia BCE. States in the area engaged in trade in the Indian Ocean and exported rice surpluses. Complex irrigation systems were built in the 9th century. The French colonial period left the large feudal landholdings intact. Roads and a railway were built‚ and rubber‚ rice and corn grown. After independence Sihanouk pursued a policy of economic independence‚ securing aid and investment from a number of countries
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recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period‚ where Pol Pot ‚ Nuon Chea‚ Ieng Sary‚ Son Sen‚ Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party took over Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge renamed it as Democratic Kampuchea. The four-year period of their rule was enough to see the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions
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