The Khmer Rouge Guerilla Movement

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.

In the 1950s Cambodia gained its independence from France and became peacefully ruled by Prince Sihanouk. In the 1960s, Cambodia was dragged into the Vietnam War and in 1970, the prime minister General Lon Nol assumed power and announced the implementation of the Khmer Republic and sent the Khmer Republic’s army to fight the North Vietnamese in Cambodia (Smith-Hefner 264). Prince Sihanouk formed a communist guerrilla

The communist group known as “Khmer Rouge” was lead by Pol Pot during the Cambodian genocide. The Genocide began in 1975 to 1979. Due to the leader shutting down schools, universities, hospitals, private institutions and factories, people died of overworking. People also died of starvation and illnesses. About 2 million people died in Cambodia when Pol Pot took power in the country. The Khmer Rouge forces targeted religious groups and other ethnic groups and also banned the groups. In reality almost everyone was a target to them. The families were separated. The children and adults were sent to different camps. Anyone who attempted to disobey or refuse to do something was automatically shot and killed. The people in Cambodia did not live in

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

No Leader of any country should have the power to kill innocent people, however as history has shown that is not always the case. In Cambodia, a leader named Pol Pot Started Khmer Rouge, ruled from 1975-1979. It was in these years that he began a murderous regime. The CPK, also known as The Communist Party of Kampuchea, can also be referred to as Khmer Rouge’s other name. Khmer had so much power and authority that he was able to beat helpless people to death. He would do this by smashing their heads with hoes. Why a hoe you might ask? This was to save the bullets for use on others. Khmer’s reign was so powerful, so ruthless and full of death that his reign was classified as a genocide.

When Cambodia won its independence from France, it was ruled by Prince Sihanouk. In February 1969, the United States was secretly bombing Cambodia. A year later, a small communist party called Khmer Rouge, started attacking cities, such as Phnom-Penh.

In the early 1950s Vietnam declared independence from the French rule, much like Cambodia had done in 1954 during the excitement of World War II. The product of Vietnam’s freedom was the division of a communist north and democratic south. The clashing differences of major powers resulted in a civil war that affected several different countries, including Cambodia. The United States intervened in the war on the behalf of southern Vietnam, who also embraced the Western culture. The United States offered a wide range of military aid in the form of bombs, airpower, and defoliants. The prince of Cambodia at the time, Sihanouk, attempted to play both north and south Vietnam to reserve neutrality between the three countries. Northern Vietnam was granted

Prince Sihanouk helped to keep Cambodia at a neutral state during the Vietnamese Civil war by allowing both sides to keep doing things; Vietnamese communists were able to use a Cambodian port to ship in necessities, the USA was allowed to bomb Viet Cong hideouts in Cambodia. When the US decided to move back, Lon Nol took control. US troops then made the decision to

The Cambodian Massacre occurred on April 17, 1975- January 7, 1975 when the Khmer Rouge regime; a communist part, took control of the Cambodian government in 1975. Approximately about 2 million Cambodians dies during this “massacre”. Khmer Rouge was lead by Pol Pot. In 1953, Cambodia gained their independence from France while Prince Sihnaouk controlled the county. Suddenly, without any notice, America secretly started bombing Cambodia in 1969.

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,

Overall, this project feels fully resolved, but there are minor choices that could be made to better it as a design. The cut out area near the children’s thumbs could be neater; the craft on them seems rushed. They also are pixelized on the edges, and making them crisp would make them pop even more. The biggest problem I have is the words inside the bubbles, I understand because know the subtitle of the book is “Growing up under the Khmer Rouge,” but others who have not read the book may not know to read it this way. The viewer only sees “Khmer Rogue” and “Chanrithy Him” on the front bubbles, so this could confuse people by presenting the two words with the same hierarchy. Putting the other two bubbles on the back and the last one on the

“Why did the Vietnamese invade the Khmer Rouge and liberate the people?” After all the research and analyzation, I have finally solved this question. During this adventure, there were many captivating facts about this conflict. I learned that this war commenced by Khmer Rouge arrogance. Democratic Kampuchea aggravated Vietnam by demanding territory, blaming them for their difficulties, fighting their soldiers, and committing other violations; these factors were the central source which resulted in an invasion. Therefore, I can conclude that Vietnam strived for resistance; however, the Khmer Rouge was essentially asking for foreign intervention. Also, based on international opinion, it seems that Vietnam held invalid reasons for an intervention

Khmer Rouge were able to take advantage of the US bombing as they used this as a form of propaganda to gain more supporters. As Cambodia was no longer a neutral country, Nixon disregarded the need to respect the Cambodian border and ordered an invasion to cut off North Vietnamese support in Cambodia. Nixon’s motive for the bombing changed from eliminating the North Vietnamese bases to eliminating Nol’s internal opposition being the Khmer Rouge as they began to pose a real threat towards Nol’s government. The US secretly aided Nol against internal communist opposition which had support from North Vietnam. Ironically, the bombings only benefited Khmer Rouge as it drove the North Vietnamese troops further into Cambodia where they had closer contact

Cambodia has had a very bumpy history and has experienced much turmoil throughout its history. Cambodia dates back to 10AD. It has been a monarchy for most of its history. In the middle 1800s France took over control of Cambodia and Cambodia was called French Indochina. It retained its independence in 1953. Cambodia was involved in the Vietnam war in the 1960s. Cambodian communists, the Khmer rouge took full control of Cambodia in the 1975 and renamed the country Kampuchea. Throughout the 1975s 1.5 million people were killed. The war was not resolved until 1991.

Some say that Pol Pot was responsible for the power and control of Cambodia because “Pol Pot cut Cambodia off from the world. He banned foreign and minority languages and attacked the neighboring countries of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand in an attempt to regain ancient ‘lost territory’” (The life of Pol Pot- Cambodia 4). This statement is true because the Khmer Rouge did gain part of their power by isolating the country, but Pol Pot is not fully responsible for that. There were other people involved, like Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan all of these people were also leaders in the Khmer Rouge. Nuon Chea was the second leader in the Khmer Rouge he is known as “The evil genius of the movement” (Chandler 1), because he is the one who was in charge of the prison system. He was one of the one’s with a heartless mind, planning tortures and executing innocent people.