Khmer Rouge Trial Summary

After they seized power in Cambodia in April 1975, Saloth "Pol Pot" Sar and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the death of 1.5-3 million Cambodian's and were perhaps one of the most ruthless regimes of the 20th century. The aim of this investigation is to evaluate Pol Pot's means of maintaining power from 1975 to 1979. An account of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's drastic internal reforms including the slaughter of millions, economic reorganization, political restructuring, and the cultivation of social/ethnic groups will appear in section B. External forces including funding from China and the United States and repressive measures such as censorship, torture, and execution will be assessed. This

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

1st September 2008: MP Israullah Zehri comments on the killing of five women for choosing their own spouses. About forced marriages he said, “These are centuries old traditions and I will continue to defend them.”

During times of trouble it is the structure of families which bring stability and fuel resilience. Families often support each other to survive a trauma because they are support systems. The Cambodian genocide led by the Khmer Rouge regime attempted to tear apart families and exploit their special bond. The Khmer Rouge soldiers took towns captive or burned them, and recruited youths to join their cause (Pran IX). From 1975 to 1979, all Cambodians were forced to live in labor camps and were forced to work fourteen to eighteen hours a day with only a single bowl of rice to eat. Family members were separated from one another purposefully to lower morale. During this period an estimated one-third of Cambodian’s population died due to malnutrition, illness, and execution (Pran X). Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors compiled by Dith Pran is important because it confirms the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime, explains how the Khmer Rouge gained power, and how the Khmer Rouge attempted to indoctrinate young children against their parents.

On October 30th, 2014, over 220 women were raped in less than 36 hours in Tabit. The HRW (Human Rights Watch) had been following the case with caution. Although the Tibet government has been trying to hide this terrible case, a man told the HRW, “They said if I talked about Tabit again that I was going to be finished. They kicked me. Tied me and hanged me up. They beat me with whips and electric wires” (Human Rights Watch). This mass rape was claimed to be a “deliberate attack on Tabit and the mass rape of the town’s women and girls is a new low in the catalog of atrocities in Darfur” (Human Rights Watch). The Sudanese armed forces caused a mass rape of over 200 women as a political statement in war. One of the soldiers told a mother “You killed our man. We are going to show you true hell” (Humans Right

The Cambodian Genocide initially started during the vietnam war. Cambodia was practically in the middle of it working neutral. They still got bombed many times though, mostly from the US and communism eventually began trying to change something but what really happened was the Cambodian Genocide of the 20th century. The genocide ended with over 2,000,000 deaths. (P.P.I.C.)

The underlying foundations of the Cambodian genocide are found in the Maoist political and economic beliefs of the Khmer Rouge administration. The most important leaders, all of whom studied in Paris in the 1950s and became active in the communist movement together, were Saloth Sar (who would later re-brand himself as Pol Pot), Ieng Sary, and Khieu Samphan. 30 The significance of their time together in France is that they developed what to them seemed a coherent political and economic model for the future of their home country, Cambodia.31 The last real stage in transforming

In Pakistan, thousands of women are dying each year because they are being accused of dishonoring their families. “The reason is rooted in sexual inequality in such countries,” Terence McCoy insists. Individuals are killing just women, and a genocide is not technically being committed because sex is not protected under the UN’s definition. Not only should the UN change its definition of genocide to include sex, but also it should change its definition to include age.

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has only held two cases. The first one was about the “Dutch”, commander of Tuol Sleng, who was charged for crimea against humanity and war crimes related to the torture and killings of 14,000 people. The second case included the second leader in the regime and Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirit. They all were charged for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Pol Pot had lost his life long

The Khmer Rouge were followers of a communist party of Kampuchea, which took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. The party’s existence was kept a secret until 1977, anyone outside of CPK knew the leaders as Angkar Padevat. A genocide was born, where they tortured and killed thousands of innocents under the order of dictator Pol Pot. They set policies and rules to reach their main goal, which was to build a new Cambodia focused on agricultural success. When the Khmer Rouge took power people were forced into the countryside to work. In order to ensure this they banned money, private property, schools, churches, shops, government builds, universities. Prisons and reeducation camps were formed from schools and buildings. They would murder

The Cambodian Genocide has had drastic effects on the country of Cambodia like, the economy, geography/wildlife, and people/population. For five years Cambodia suffered and no one knew it was happening. President Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia which ended up killing thousands of Cambodians and Americans. After the bombing nobody even looked back at Cambodia giving the genocide perfect cover, without anyone knowing it was even happening.

Arguably, the formulation of internal purges within the Khmer Rouge can be considered a consequential, contributing factor to the death toll of the Cambodian genocide. Fostered by a “mix of hubris and paranoia”, the upshot culminated widespread violence and terror. From 1977 to 1978, Pol Pot initiated purges against the “hidden enemies, burrowing from within”, causing Khmer Rouge cadres to turn on themselves. The purged were mostly imprisoned within S-21, and out of the 14,000 who walked through the gates, more than 1,000 were Khmer Rouge cadres accused of disloyalty to the regime. 12.50 - Overall it is estimated that 200,000 individuals were executed due to the bloody purges put into motion by Pol Pot. - make it clear that these individuals

The demand for sexual services is a universal constant in human society—from the sexual slavery of the Indo-Asian colonial period, to contemporary Canada, the relation between sex and power is an undisputed fact. Prostitutes and concubines are and were people who struggled with power historically due to their positions in society and their occupations; they have struggled for political access, for their own safety, and for their freedom. By contrasting modern prostitution with concubinage in colonial Asia, I will show how systems of justice operate in sexist and racist policies in order to regulate and restrict the agency of sex workers and concubines. From the destruction

In 1976, after massacring hundreds of thousands of former government officials and supporters of the previous government, the Khmer Rouge began purging their own ranks. They utilized brutal tactics such as, “’the victory pole’ where four people would be tied together, their backs to the pole, facing opposite directions. Then a guard would shoot one in the head covering the others in blood and brains.” (Dunlop 87). They converted city schools into prisons and arrested people for any slight charge perceived against the revolution. Distrust with each other became so rampant among members inside the party that “vanquishing the enemies” became the most important task of the Khmer Rouge Regime. Food shortages occurred, electricity became scarce, and disease became a major problem for the population. Even the most useful resource for the Khmer Rouge executioners became scarce; they sometimes ran out of bullets after a heavy night of prison executions.

Matthew Watson’s 2009 film, Cambodia: The Virginity Trade, is a gut-wrenching documentary exposing the atrocities of child sex trafficking and child prostitution. At the heart of the film are the young child victims of the trade, it specifically focuses on the horrific context of virginity as a commodity and gives the viewer a glimpse of the stark realities of thousands of children living in impoverished Cambodia. In Cambodia's society, high value is placed on the virginity and sexual innocence of young women and girls. The loss of a girl's virginity before marriage is viewed as bringing shame to her family's honor and status (1:38). Through a series of compelling interviews, Watson reveals the driving forces behind the demands for virgin