Cambodians Under Pol Pot Cambodia‚ a small country just west of Vietnam‚ gained independence after nearly 100 years of French rule. They first faced the problem of Communism during the Vietnamese Civil War. They remained neutral by contributing equally to North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was a Communist country while South Vietnam was advised by the U.S. The Khmer Rouge‚ a group of Communist rebels‚ was led by Pol Pot. They soon took over Cambodia‚ killing hundreds of thousands of people
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Cambodian genocide and the holocaust were two of the most brutal genocide we come to think about today. Cambodian genocide occurred in Cambodia and everything began and happened after a war. It was and inner war going ahead inside Cambodia and the Vietnam was additionally having one and this is the thing that prompted genocide. When Cambodia was seen as a frail power they began to get demise dangers from all over and this made them essentially surrender. They needed to surrender on the grounds that
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Pol Pot in Cambodia. This all started in 1925‚ when Pol Pot was born. He joined the underground communist movement in 1953. In 1962 he became leader of the communist party and was forced to flee into the jungle‚ in that same jungle he began building his own military resistance and began waging guerrilla war against the government. From 1969 until 1973 Pot watched as 150‚000 Cambodian peasants were slain from U.S bombs. In 1975 when they U.S left Vietnam. Cambodia’s government was in shambles it
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. Khmer Rouge Cambodian Genocide Symbolization: People were to be evaluated by how reliable they were to principles (“Cambodian Genocide Facts and Timeline: A Clear Account”).Khmer Rouge thought all of the Cambodians must be forced to work in one huge federation of collective farm areas. Anyone that was not in the system or in opposition to it must have been eliminated. They were forced to work by their appearances. If they were elderly‚ handicapped‚ ill‚ or children that suffered from
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Cambodian Genocide Dead bodies everywhere you turn. The smell of gunpowder‚ filth‚ and death choke your lungs. You wonder everyday whether it will be your last. All your body feels is pain; all your heart feels is emptiness. One might think this is how life was for Jews during the Jewish Holocaust. In reality‚ this is how life was for many Cambodians during the reign of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979. This event‚ known to many as the Cambodian genocide‚ left a profound mark on the world around us
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Andrew Li Jolle AP World History 12 August 2013 The Cambodian Genocide’s effect on the Ung Family In examining the reasons causing the tragedy of the Ung family after the Cambodian Genocide in 1975‚ one can assume that these reasons include economic breakdown (continuity of the Angkar trading crops for firearms)‚ government collapse (changes in the soldiers’ behavior towards the villagers‚ continuity of Khmer Rouge killing villagers at Lo Reap)‚ and the lack of social interactions (changes in
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Imagine leaving everything that was once a part of your life because a new government began ruling the nation you live in. Imagine watching innocent people being taken away‚ hearing screams and gunshots‚ and knowing that these individuals have been killed without even seeing it happen. This is what living in Cambodia during the Cambodian Genocide was like. Each day‚ instead of growing larger and stronger‚ children were growing weak. As a young girl‚ Loung Ung lived through this war. Years later‚
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All around the world there have been times where a certain country’s economy have just collapsed. The majority of the time this is caused by who is in charge for running the country. For our term paper we have chosen two men who were communists and caused the downfall of their country’s economy. This includes the increase of poverty along with the increase of death rates. The two dictators we chose were Pol Pot‚ dictator of Cambodia and Idi Amin Dada the president of Uganda. Both were different
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Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia who I believed went through a Genocide just as bad as the Holocaust. In April 1975‚ armed Cambodians known as the Khmer Rouge had invaded Cambodia after winning a five-year-long civil war. The Khmer Rouge came and forced all of the Cambodians out of their homes‚ took their money and more without explaining their reason. In the first chapter of book David Chandler’s book Voices from S-21‚ Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison‚ it talked about how after
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Imagine living an ordinary life‚ going to school‚ doing homework‚ watching television‚ hanging out with friends‚ the out of no where being taken away to a labor or death camp to be murdered or worked to death. This is what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodians. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge caused the deaths of many Cambodians through labor and death camps during the 1970’s. Origin The Khmer Rouge was a Communist party led by Pol Pot in Cambodia. They took control of the country from 1975 to 1979‚ and
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