Holocaust and Pol Pot in Cambodia were both horrible events in history. They were both similar and different in many ways. In both events victims were sealed from the outside world. Women‚ men‚ and children were being overworked and starved. And even after all the hard work thousands of them were being killed. Both leaders had different plans‚ but one thing they both had in mind was genocide. In both events the victims were being sealed off from the outside world. In Cambodia‚ Pol Pot wanted all culture
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Pol Pot Speech History Assessment My name is Pol Pot‚ but I wasn’t always born with this name. I was born as Saloth Sar‚ I was the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge (also known as the Red Cambodians). I was responsible for the deaths of over 25% of Cambodia’s population between 1975-1979. In just four years I killed
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playing in this simulation was Wai Cheng who is a Chinese diplomat. At the time of the simulation‚ China and Cambodia were close allies as both regimes were communist. Cheng is well acquainted with most of the Khmer Rouge‚ however‚ does not defend Pol Pot and his actions during the time of his reign. My overall goal is to ensure that the Khmer Rouge is not made as the scapegoat. Therefore the pressing issue I will seek to negotiate is accountability; who should be prosecuted and how? Cheng also believes
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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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Pol Pot‚ the main leader of the Khmer Rouge in the Cambodian Genocide‚ was in March 1925. His birth name was Saloth Sar. He was offered a scholarship by the French government to study electronics at the Ecole Francaise d’Electronique et d’Informatique in Paris. When Saloth was in Paris‚ he joined the Khmer Students’ Association‚ and the French Communist Party. These groups basically fought for freedom for French peasants. However‚ Saloth was forced by the university to return back to Cambodia in
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The evil people that were unnamed are Pol Pot and Ilse Koch are examples of people who are inhumane and immoral. Pol Pot and Ilse Koch actions on other people are seen as sick and dirty‚ because of the way they treated people. Pol Pot‚ right after winning a civil war‚ would make‚ “ Former civil servants‚ doctors‚ teachers and other professionals were stripped of their possessions and forced to toil in the fields as part of a reeducation process.” Pol Pot’s‚ “`reeducation process‚” would be an
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Pol Pot- Dictator of Cambodia Pol Pot was a Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976-1979. Pol pot or Saloth Sar‚ was born in 1925 in a small village north of the cambodian capital called Prek sbauv. His family owned 50 acres of rice. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh‚ where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic primary school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949‚ when he went to Paris on a scholarship. While there‚ he studied radio technology and became
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would we be?" (Orwell page 50). These examples prove Napoleon‚ ruler of Animal Farm‚ and Pol Pot‚ ruler of Cambodia‚ are indeed similar. Pol Pot was Dictator of Cambodia and head of the Khmer Rogue from 1975-1979. The Khmer Rogue was a communist party within Cambodia. The Rogue first initiated a coup d’ētat in 1970‚ which sparked a civil war which lasted 5 years
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respective rules. Though Communist leader Pol Pot and German nationalist Adolf Hitler can be compared in several ways‚ there are also myriad differences between their ascendancies. The social dispositions and executions of Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot‚ although similar in several ways‚ also differed for numerous reasons during their supremacies. The social perspectives and exploits of Hitler and Pol Pot have multiple similarities. For example‚ both Pol Pot and Hitler advocated and‚ to an extent‚ succeeded
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The Rise and Fall of Pol Pot Pol Pot‚ infamous for his connection to the Khmer Rouge that identified with communism‚ held power in Cambodia from 1975-1979. Although‚ this is only a short period of time‚ he undoubtedly left a lasting impression on the Cambodian population. Pol Pot’s revolution failed to increase the level of Human Rights and wealth for the Khmer people. Pol Pot and his party became obsessed with eliminating “enemies” of the Khmer Rouge from the population. They devastated any chance
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