Khmer Rouge Propaganda

He tried his best not to lose the war because he does not want American war to be the loser. The United States troops were completely pulled back from Vietnam before the finish of March of 1973, yet America continued battling in Cambodia. North Vietnam did not respond to US notices and before the year 's over Nixon stayed weak after Watergate. In his article, the author said that Nixon tried to protect the Thieu administration in South Vietnam and let South Vietnam on the safe side because he needed the Thieu government to be secure. North Vietnam needed to have a unity but South Vietnam strived to be a free country. Nixon 's mission was to help and support the nations that are US partners such as South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, but other nations would need to shield themselves from the communism. When Nixon attempted to stay faithful to his obligation to the Thieu government in South Vietnam, Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger needed to proceed onward to different United State interests gradually. The purpose for these spending is to secure the Thieu government in South Vietnam. In his article, the author said that Nixon’s administration shows how much Kissinger feel afraid from the Negotiations that are full of twists. Despite the hostility between United State and North Vietnam, Nixon still threatening them that he doesn’t want to pay the amount if they do not want to adhere to the guarantee of the understanding, but when Richard Nixon resigned, the

During the 1960's and 1970's, Cambodia was involved in a civil war and the Vietnam War simultaneously. On March 18, 1969, Operation Menu was executed by President Richard Nixon. This was a secret bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia whose objective was to bomb suspected communist bases. “American B-52s began carpet-bombing eastern Cambodia which the first course in a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia headlong into the Vietnam War,” (Caught in the Crossfire). American bombers killed Viet Cong troops and civilians alike, inciting outrage from the Cambodian public. This resulted in the creation of the Khmer Rouge which subsequently caused a civil war. The Cambodian Civil War cultivated an environment which allowed the Khmer Rouge to

The Cambodian Genocide was the result of imperialism, ethnic supremacy, ultra-nationalism, anti-colonialism, a power grab, and religion. It began with the Cambodian people struggling against French colonization and grew in inspiration from Vietnam (end genocide). The French believed that Cambodia was a gateway into China to expand their trade with Southeast Asia. The French occupied southern Vietnam and wanted to expand their territory. There were many civil wars and invasions in Cambodia fought between the Vietnamese and Thai, and it greatly affected Cambodia. While the French did help Cambodia become independent and grew their infrastructure, while exploiting Cambodian labor, they failed to educate Cambodian people and establish a solid and effective judiciary system (Cambodia tribunal). Thus began their feelings of anti-colonialism. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. used Cambodia as a base to regroup, but also bombed the country to kill suspected Viet Cong targets. This began their feelings of imperialism and ultra-nationalism. The Khmer Rouge began feeling great animosity towards the West for their influenced corruption to Cambodian land and its people. Between January and August of 1973, 300,000 Cambodians were killed by American bombers that had joined forces with Lon Nol, head of the Khmer Republic.

The United States was a bystander because supporting the Khmer Rouge was a safer option for their country. The United States was currently in the Vietnam and Cold Wars, so they were trying to balance power away from Vietnam and the USSR (Springer 2006). The United States was in a right vs. right ethical dilemma. It was right for them to protect their citizens by doing whatever necessary

In Nixon’s effort to end the war, his first policy was to send a message to Hanoi that he meant business. His policy consisted of escalated strategic bombings near the border of Cambodia in hopes to get the North Vietnamese to fear that the United States was capable of doing anything to achieve victory. Even Johnson was skeptical of expanding the war into Cambodia but Nixon’s first policy in full effect. Unfortunately, America was blinded by the corruptness of Nixon’s “peaceful presidency” since

There were many steps in choosing my NHD topic. I had to keep in mind the theme, Explore, Encounter, and Exchange. I thought of many different things such as the African American Rights, World War I. And then I thought about the Holocaust. That topic really intrigued me to think about, it was a awful event that changed our history forever. I started doing more and more research on different genocides that have occurred in our history. I saw so many different genocides, that I haven’t really heard about. I decided that the Cambodian Genocide seem the most interesting to me. My family is Vietnamese and therefore my dad talks to me a lot about when he lived in Vietnam and lots about his different experiences there. My dad told me a lot about what the Cambodian Genocide was about, and I found it more and more interesting. This topic affects me in a personally way, which intrigued me to know more about it.

The North Vietnamese were transferring their supplies by trucks and others, which is located next to South Vietnam. Since the Cambodian operations was in between, the bases became a problem for the enemy because it will benefit the NVA (North Vietnamese Army). Although, Cambodia was officially a neutral nation, the NVA used its territory to run weapons and troops, dodging the U.S. soldiers and bombers that were operating. The NVA and Viet Cong, who were both communist, attacked the South Vietnamese and the American troops. Since Cambodia was neutral, they were offering shelter to the communist troops. Nixon wanted to defeat North Vietnam by destroying their supply lines and base camps in Cambodia. So their supply lines were bombed by ground attack, fighter jets.

To begin with, the operation of invading Cambodia came into the greater scheme of the Vietnam War. This all began in 1955 with The Communist North Vietnamese wanting a union with the Anti-Communist South Vietnamese, which was promptly refused. As a result war broke out and now the South Vietnamese not only had to deal with the north but also with a communist supporting group in the south known as the Viet Cong. This intensified the war as they were a guerrilla based group that would repeatedly ambush and attack the south at night.

March 18th 1969, President Richard Nixon Authorized a risky but effective operation without the granted approval of the U.S Congress. 2.7 million bombs brutality collided with Cambodia soil, the explosions were so devastating that a terrifying 30 percent of the land was destroyed internally.

Before any research, I vaguely understood why Vietnam liberated the Cambodians. As I was the first generation in the United States, it concealed me from Vietnam’s history and their interactions with foreign nations. Nonetheless, I understood that North Vietnam previously sponsored the Khmer Rouge Regime. The financing was as a result of the Allies funding the Lon Nol, Capitalistic Administration during the Vietnam War. A few years after the war ended, the new Communist Regime turned against their subsidized, Vietnamese government and commenced a war. Unfortunately, lacking information meant I could only conclude one thing: Communistic expansion commenced the war. Cambodia’s extreme ideologies must have angered Vietnam. When juxtaposed, the

The Communist Party of Kampuchea, also known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, which lasted until January 1979. For their three-year, eight-month, and twenty-one day rule of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge committed some of the most heinous crimes in current history. The main leader who orchestrated these crimes was a man named Pol Pot. In 1962, Pol Pot had become the coordinator of the Cambodian Communist Party. The Prince of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, did not approve of the Party and forced Pol Pot to flee to exile in the jungle. There, Pol formed a fortified resistance movement, which became known as the Khmer Rouge, and pursued a guerrilla war against Sihanouk’s government. As Pol Pot began to accumulate power,

In 1958, Communist-led guerrillas, eventually known as the Viet Cong, began to battle the government of the South Vietnamese. The United States then sent 2,000 military advisors t support South Vietnam’s government. This number grew to 16,3000 by 1963. The military force slowly deteriorated. By 1963 the fertile Mekong Delta was lost to the overpowering Viet Cong. The war rose in 1965, when President Johnson issued commencing air strikes on North Vietnam and ground forces, which had risen to 536,000 by 1968. The Tet Offensive by North Vietnam turned many Americans against the waging war. President Nixon, following Johnson, promoted Vietnamization, the withdrawing of American troops and handing over the great responsibility of the war to South Vietnam. Protesting of the war dramatically increased, especially after Nixon’s attempt to slow North Vietnam forces and supplies into the South by sending American forces to destroy supply bases in Cambodia in 1970, which violated Cambodian neutrality. This provoked antiwar protests on many of the United Stats’ college campuses. In 1968 through 1973 attempts were made to end the ongoing conflict through diplomacy. Then in January 1973, an agreement was reached. U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam and the U.S. POWs were released. In April 1975, South Vietnam surrendered to the North and Vietnam was once again united. The Vietnam War ended, but it took the lives of 58,000

It has been one whole year since I have last seen you. It feels like an anniversary, yet all I wanna do is sit and cry. I miss Kalianne so much. She didn’t deserve to be shot, especially at such a young age. She barely started her life and here these soldiers are, ending it before she could even truly begin. There have been rumors that the Khmer Rouge is coming to my refugee camp. I wish to leave and go find you and Meh but I am too scared. I fear that if I even attempt to escape, they will shoot me on sight. I want to stay strong to keep your memory alive, but I’m trying so hard and I still seem to be failing. Being strong in this camp means being able to pull a trigger without thinking, but once the gun falls in my hand, all I can think about

Located in Southeast Asia between Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia was home to one of the bloodiest political regimes to exist in the 20th century. In a country, in which American government reports in 1959 documented, was full of “ ‘docile and passive people…[who] could not be counted on to act in any positive way for the benefit of US aims and policies’”, the United States conflict in neighboring Vietnam brought about incredible changes to an unsuspecting people (qted. in Dunlop 70). The countryside was bombed by the United States in order to uproot suspected North Vietnamese holdouts and supply routes starting in 1969. These bombing raids, which devastated

U.S. President Richard Nixon authorizes operation Meru to drop over 100,000 tons of explosives along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. Prince Sihanouk deals with bombing. Vietnam does not publicize the bombings to avoid world attention on communist troops there. Following the Cambodian coup in 1970, the deposed king gave his support of his former enemies, Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge developed as a strong power, taking Phonm Penh in 1975 and later carrying out the Cambodian Genocide from 1975 to 1979. The country faces numerous challenges and sociopolitical issues, including widespread poverty, extensive dishonesty, lack of governmental privileges, low human education, and a high rate of hunger. Cambodia became a essential monarchy under King