Government Should Be Best For Cambodia

Cambodia officially once known as the Khmer Empire is a country located in the southern section of peninsula in the Southeast Asia. It is bordered by the neighboring countries like Thailand to northwest and Vietnam to the east, with a current population of 15 Million +, making the 69th on the most populous country in the world. The current most practiced religion is Buddhism conceiving 95 percent of the population. The capital and largest city of Cambodia is Phnom Penh, the political, economic, and cultural center of this country occur. Most decisions regarding political and economic factors occur in this capital. Its governing methods make it questionable factor for this nation, where the current head of government Hun Sen, who is currently the longest serving non-royal leader in South East Asian and has governed and obstructed this country for 25 years. Its extensive history and background of this nation has poverties it for its people and its current individual economical service, forcing some individual to resolute into trafficking and disruption of its younger generation to other nations by illegal means. By demonstrating the current and previous events that have transcended this nation and its people into using illegal means of disruption of humans for economic value, we can analyze current and future means of stopping this disgusting act constantly occurring in this area. This analysis focuses on the globalization context of this event and through the demands,

Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia which is about half the size of California and was ruled by the French until the Japanese could win the war. Cambodia borders the Gulf of Thailand, Thailand,Vietnam and Laos. Japan on the other hand surrendered the war so then the French took over in 1945. This time around the French allowed the Cambodians to have political parties and a constitution. Then in 1949 Cambodia was semi-independent according to a treaty. The French finally gave Cambodia their independence on November 9, 1953. King Sihanouk formed his own political movement in favor of his father from 1955-1970 then when his father died he named his movement the Buddhist Socialist which was not really socialist at all. In 1968 is when the

In an attempt to achieve a “master race” by rebuilding the society from the ground up, communist leader Pol Pot spear-headed a period radical change, terror, and bloodshed. Long-lasting effects of this atrocious time still taints Cambodia today. This tragedy has and will forever change Cambodia.

From 1975 to 1979 Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, had a goal to create a society that was completely self-sufficient. In four years the Khmer Rouge killed, tortured and starved to death somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million innocent Cambodian civilians, ultimately destroying any trace of humanity within Cambodia. Forty years later the people of Cambodia are still suffering and the country is still trying to put the pieces back together, both physically and emotionally.

Without the intervention of the French, Cambodia could have become integrated into another South Asian country, and disappear as a sovereign nation. (Cambodia Tribunal) While the French seem to be a blessing to Cambodia, the few negative effects created the poor, naive Cambodia that Pol Pot came to power in. In the early 20th century, education was severely neglected. Over time, it was slightly increased, but was never up to par. According to Cambodia, a Country Study, there was only one “institution of higher learning” in Cambodia in 1950. The country was not educated. The Khmer Rouge/Democratic Party of Campuchea’s Socio-Communist ideas took advantage of the unknowledgeable Cambodians, and ended up herding them like sheep, eventually leading them to their death. French colonists did not allow Cambodians to participate in the government, so they did not know what to do when independence finally arrived at their front door in 1945.

Since 1941 Cambodia has been under a constitutional monarchy which was led by Norodom Sihanouk after his maternal grandfather king Norodom had died. The French, who were managing Cambodia at the time, wrongly thought he would be easily controlled however Cambodia got opportunity from France in 1953.

Throughout history, people have tested many different political systems have a better society. The most common political systems that people have tested are monarchy, oligarchy, theocracy, aristocracy and democracy. I will talk about capitalism and communism in this research paper. Both those systems are created to change the economic situation. There have been a huge debate about Capitalism vs Communism. Throughout this research paper, I am going to talk about how these different method works, advantages and disadvantages that each of them creates

In the terms of governments, Cambodia is a monarchy with a king as the head of the state but the king only has ceremonial powers. A prime minister heads the government.

The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to at least the 5th millennium BC.[1][2] Detailed records of a political structure on territory, what is now modern day Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries. Centered at the lower Mekong,[3] Funan is noted as the oldest regional Hindu culture, which suggests prolonged socio-economic interaction with maritime trading partners of the Indosphere in the west.[4] By the 6th century a civilisation, titled Chenla or Zhenla in Chinese annals, has firmly replaced Funan, as it controlled larger, more undulating areas of Indochina and maintained more than a singular centre of power.[5][6]

The domestic policy of Cambodia under Khmer Rouge rule was the advancement of agriculture only, they were to rebuild the nation using agriculture as a base and with revenues from that section use it to build industry and the industry would serve the development of agriculture. According to the “Four Year Plan”, Cambodians were expected to produce three tons of rice per hectare. Pol Pot along with Leng wanted to transform into a classless society without exploitation. Under this regime, many things were taken away from the people, it was like by taking away class, Pol Pot also wanted to take away their essence of humanity and culture. People were not allowed to practice a religion; , or show affection towards each other even to a family member. Muslims were forced to eat pork, Christian clergymen and Monks were executed. There were no

Cambodia is still underdeveloped. Cambodia was totally destroyed by the Pol Pot regime, Khmer Rouge, in between 1975 to 1979. Four million people were killed, most educated people, and the entire country was covered by dead bodies and empty houses. People were not allowed to live in their house, and they were not allowed to own any property. In fact, everything they had belonged to the regime, and they were forced to live and work so hard in the rice field without providing enough food. Because that regime had killed so many intelligent people, until today Cambodia is still struggling with human recourse issue. Even the Cambodian top leader, prime minister, is not educated enough. He was the first prime minister after the Pol Pot regime finished

39 years ago, Cambodia was misfortunate with creating one the saddest tragedies of the 20th century. It started off with the fall of the Khmer Republic, when the communist Khmer Rouges took over the country that led to the slaughtering of over 2 million people. After four dark years, what’s left was a civil war torn country that was left unstable throughout the 90’s with a corrupted Prime Minister name Hun Sen. Sen, a former Khmer Rouge led Cambodia as Prime Minister; Second to the King. On July 28th, 2013, it was the day of the elections where everything was set to change. The citizens that represented Cambodia went to the polls and voted. For some people, it was their first time voting and for all, it was a vote as if their lives

A drastic change occurred on the constitution of Cambodia changed on 5th January 1976. The Khmer Rouge announced the birth of ‘Democratic Kampuchea’ and published the nation’s new constitution. The use of the word ‘Cambodia’ was now forbidden. For example “Article 1: The State” states that “The State of Kampuchea is an independent, unified, peaceful, neutral, non-aligned, sovereign and democratic State enjoying territorial integrity. The State of

On April 17th, 1975, the Khmer Rouge army began marching into Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge army consisted mostly of uneducated teenage boys or young peasants, and Pol Pot was their leader. Pol Pot was born in March 1925, and was born with the name of Saloth Sar. He earned a scholarship from the government of France to attend the Ecole Francaise d’Electronique et d’Informatique in Paris, and study electronics. While in Paris, Sar joined the Khmer Students’ Association and the French Communist Party. These groups fought for the liberation of the uneducated peasantry, which opposed to the original factory workers, who were supported by Marxist policies. However, Sar was forced to return to Cambodia in 1952 after 3 years of failing exams.

Discrimination and mass murders of Vietnamese in Cambodia continued, and regional data on the minority in the country illustrates the need for external actors to intervene. Hostage situations, ethnic murders, large scale drug smuggling, and an immigration law that targeted Vietnamese in the country are just some of the issues occurring in these 5 years. In June 1993 the Cambodia Constitution was adopted and signed, which established Sihanouk as now King and outlined a series of articles that aimed to address issues across the board. The articles protected free speech, human rights of the Khmer citizens, sovereignty of the nation, and economic policy among many other aspects. The anti-Vietnamese discrimination was rising in Cambodia, often expressed through hate speech or propaganda of people who blamed the Vietnamese for internal problems of the country. Vietnamese made up about 5 percent of the population, and although attacks and killings lasted for years in this interim period and was a huge issue, the constitution still seemed to lack efficiency in addressing this issue. By 1998, the process of demobilization began once again, this time with a more intense, calculated time table. Along with international financial