Southeast Asian American Refugee Summary

Later that same year, Pot and the Khmer Rouge took control over Cambodia. Pot wasted no time in starting his mission to reconstruct Cambodia. He thought that all the educated people needed to be killed (Melicharova). Also he thought that all noncommunist aspects of Cambodia needed to be wiped out. All rights you had were now gone. Religion was banned and if you were any kind of leader among the Buddhist monks, you were killed instantly (Melicharova). All kids were taken away and sent to work in the fields (Melicharova). If anyone was currently working and had a job, they were immediately killed along with their family members. It got so bad that you could be killed for just laughing, crying, and knowing another language. The Khmer Rouge motto was “To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss” (Melicharova). If you were lucky enough to escape death, you were put into the fields working usually from 4am to 10pm unpaid (“Pol”). From lack of food and sleep, people often became very ill which sadly led to death.

In the late 70’s, nearly 2 million Cambodians died of overwork, starvation, torture, and execution in what became known as the Cambodian genocide. A group known as the Khmer Rouge took control of the country in April 1975. Over the course of

In just three years of its power in control, Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge turned the country of Cambodia into a living hell. “By 1976 approximately twenty-five hundred prisoners had passed through the bloody corridors of S21, and each year that followed saw increased numbers of tortured prisoners, until they totaled around seventeen thousand by 1979, when the Vietnamese Army liberated Phnom Penh.”（8 Asma) Most prisoners brought to S21 was innocent, they were brought here only because the people in power believe they were enemies of the revolution or associated with western culture. Ironically, the torture chamber used to be a school. People associate hope and bright future with school, especially with

In order to support his opinion, the author uses historical references to the enormous impact of racial inequality on African American lives. Additionally, Desmond names a set of historical data and rates of the poor African Americans in cities to enhance the reader’s understanding of this complex situation. African Americans were also more likely to get the apartment with broken furniture, windows, and other facilities that confirmed the existence of racial inequality (Desmond, 2016, p.249). To reassert his position, Desmond provides offensive statistics that millions of people are evicted from American homes, and most of them are African American (Desmond, 2016, p.293). As a matter of fact, the author proves that housing discrimination based on race is the primary cause of

    After all of this terror occurred during the regime, the population of Cambodia shrunk and dropped in age for a long period of time, the country struggled to function, and many leaders of the Khmer Rouge were brought to justice while Pol Pot and others were never put to justice. When the regime’s reign concluded, Cambodia found themselves in a state of disarray. For one,  the government struggled greatly due to a lack of a forceful ruler and party in place.. Also, the entire country was left hungry after shipping a significant amount of food away to China under the Khmer Rouge.  As a result of this rough time period, people attempted to flee and become refugees elsewhere since Cambodia clearly wasn’t moving in the right direction (The Cambodian Genocide). Without the Khmer Rouge in power, the country was probably divided with various opinions surrounding who should rule next. Due to a lack of food and other resources, a large amount of people couldn’t bear to continue living in Cambodia, thus resulting in the flux of Cambodian refugees. Certainly, it was a difficult time to be living in Cambodia as the country

The article that I selected is called Education of young Burmese refugees. The topics that are addressed in the article are the growing population of Burmese refugees in America, the education of Burmese refugees and the hardships of being a refugee. The article begins with the high population of Burmese refugees in American. I agree with this topic because at my field placement there are hundreds of refugees from Burmese and the number continues to grow monthly. As a refugee education can be very hard to obtain because nothing is ever certain. The article describes the hardship of receiving an education as a refugee. Some hardships include financial hardships, language barriers and lack of resources. When refugees

Ever since the actions in Cambodia occurred, it has been debated whether it was an actual genocide. The general definition of genocide is the purposeful and methodical execution of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia demonstrated that a government can be guilty of genocide against its own nation. The radical communist party led by Pol Pot took over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. After 1979, the Khmer Rouge left a traumatized Cambodian culture that continues to undergo the repercussions of the genocide. People over the age of forty in Cambodia have stories to tell of fear, cruelty, hunger and the loss of family members. However, the Cambodian government is not making an effort to recognize the negative occurrences that have posed itself in the history of their culture.

It would be horrid to live in a country like Cambodia today I can only imagine what it would have been like when Pol Pot was in charge. Life would have been tough back then with the war they were involved in and Pol Pot didn’t make it much better. The poverty stricken country today has still came a long ways from the Agrarian society Pol Pot created in 1975. As was stated earlier, communism seems great, but in all reality, no communism country has succeed, and Cambodia happened to join the list of suffering

Pol Pot, a man who valued Mao’s Chinese communist way of living, saw the cities as the heart of capitalism and therefore it had to be eliminated (“The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot Regime”). With the help of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla Army, the survivors of the Cambodian Genocide are left to deal with their traumatic past and seek hope for a better future.

The Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979) was a result of Pol Pot’s desire to form a communist peasant farming society. At the time of his youth, Cambodia was under French control. In 1949, Pot went to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics but became interested into Marxism. He dropped his schooling and came back to Cambodia to join the underground Communist movement. The following year, France had lost control in Cambodia and a royal monarchy was put into place. Pot became the leader of the Cambodian Communist Party but was forced into fleeing at the hands of the monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Pot formed a resistance group named the Khmer Rouge and began to revolt against Sihanouk. Sihanouk was defeated, but not by Pot. The United

From 1975 to 1979 an estimated 1.5 million to 3 million people died in Cambodia as a result of the Khmer Rouge regime and their leader Pol Pot. Pol pot a french taught revolutionary was determined to rid his country of outside influences and establish a type of Socialism based on agriculture. In the name of purifying the Cambodian society; the Khmer Rouge targeted ethnic Chinese, ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Cham, and the religious groups Cambodian Christians and Buddhist monkhood. In addition to these ethnic and religious demographics the regime also targeted intellectuals, any opposing political groups and many other minority groups that they deemed as a corrupting influence to Cambodia.The main conflicts during this time period

The Cambodian Civil War took place from 1970-1975, however, the violence in the country was to only get worse. Immediately following the war, the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia from 1975-1979. Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge committed crimes against humanity and killed over one million people. Pol Pot and the members of the Khmer Rouge who are responsible for over a million deaths in the Cambodian Killing Fields, and 20,000 mass graves, are being brought to justice 30 years later, but the families of those who suffered will never forget their cruel and unthinkable acts against humanity.

The people of Cambodia want an improvement in the government. Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge is the best thing that will accompany the government, at least in the people’s eyes. Everyone is supporting him, envisioning the development of the government. In 1975, the United States retreated their troops from Vietnam, losing its support from America. With the favor on Pol Pot’s side, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge army invaded the capital, Phnom Penh, and took total control of Cambodia.

Prior to the history of the Pol Pot Regime that occurred in Cambodia, there were many conflicts that sparked within the government. In April 1975, Cambodia’s government had gone through significant drastic changes, and many of the citizens were forced to leave their own lifestyles.1 The importance of a changing government could be seen as crucial because during this time period, government reformations created a negative impact towards the citizens. “The Khmer Rouge were Maoist forces led by Pol Pot in Cambodia during the reign of terror that lasted from 1975 to 1979.” 2 It was a terrifying sight of exhausted victims, eyes widened with fear, arms and necks chained with bruises marking their features.3 Many of the children and parents had to endure endless harsh labor daily, while suffering exhaustion and limited sources of food.4

A consecutive three years (1975-1978) history remarked how Kingdom of Cambodia doing today. As international world put concerns just after genocide stopped rather than taking any factual actions toward Pol Pot’s regime which exhausted people of Kingdom of Cambodia for that consecutive three years, every international dissents are not an absolute true voices to determine what was exactly happen during that three years. With a blink of an eye, alliances formed during those dramatic years – Vietnam which driven by aid from Soviet rejected People’s Republic of China offers to aid them and Cambodia which has a closer knot to People’s Republic of China had alike vision on transforming Cambodia community into agrarian society in Pol Pot’s regime.