The Kmer Rouge Genocide

Power can have the persuasive action in undoing the moral ethics of one’s character. This can be seen throughout history, such as World War II and proven by the actions of Napoleon in the allegory, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. As Lord Acton said “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In history what was viewed as a villain or wrong doer is never the same as the perception. A leader does not begin wanting to do wrong, they start with the best intentions, but power is a tricky thing, showcased in Animal Farm as Utopian ideals but with failed practices.

An example is of the war, Ung having no freedom of religion since the Khmer Rouge limited this. One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports this “The Khmer Rouge government has also banned the practice of religion.” (Ung 322). This evidence demonstrates how the Khmer Rouge wants people to respect them and doesn’t want people

There is a lot of evil in the world, and much of it happens unexplainably. In the history of life on Earth bad things have happened and evil has caused problems. In relation to some world

Hated has always been part of human nature, it is an inevitable emotion that can consumes the souls of men. The genocide in Ukraine during the early 1900s caused incredible suffering. Referred to as Holodomor which translates to killing by hunger, the Ukrainian starvation was a man made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine and the traditional Cossack territories starved to death due to Stalin’s government seizing of crops resulting in the countries denial of the genocide and even cannibalism.

Evil doesn’t even begin to cover it. The mass murder of millions of people. The complete obliteration of an entire society. Each and every genocide has the same core principles, but a distinct face. A dictator takes over a weak country with promises of returning it to its former glory, once he has everyone’s support, he implements extremely discriminatory laws and finds reasons to kill anyone who dares oppose him. The Holocaust and the Cambodian genocides are remarkably similar, and yet strikingly different. The Holocaust was an attempt to wipe out all Jews and other minorities such as gypsies and handicapped people. The Cambodian genocide, led by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, was in some ways a mirror image of the Holocaust, but it

The history of the human race can be summed up as self destructive. Centuries of countless war, uprisings, and oppression has marked history as a repeating cycle of hate and violence. The population today is divided amongst issues and the government is torn between what decide. The people want change from their government about critical issues, but change is not always guaranteed to be given. With change comes opposition and opposition only gives rise to violence.

Numerous instances of oppression throughout history call into question its impact on society in the past and present. Governments like those of Joseph Stalin’s Communist regime or Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime illustrate the ways in which it was justified. First-hand accounts of the people victimized from oppression give form to its methodologies. Even today, it leaves its stain on the fabric of the modern world. Through sources such as “The Need for Progress” by Joseph Stalin and Elie Wiesel’s famous memoir Night, readers can gain a better understanding of the driving principles and effects of oppression. Past governments have used the threat of racial and religious minorities to justify their persecution. One method of oppression involved the

Pursuit of various visions of social justice probably accounts for most human misery. What's more, the historical pattern that has emerged has been one whereby one form of injustice is replaced by one that is far worse. Russia's 1917 revolution expelling the Czars, and their injustices, ushered in Lenin, Stalin and a succession of brutal dictators who murdered tens of millions in the name of the proletariat revolution. The injustices of Chiang Kai-shek were replaced with those of Mao Tse-tung; Castro's ousting of Batista or Ayatollah Khomeini's toppling of the Shah of Iran produced regimes far more brutal. In Africa, after independence, the injustices of colonial powers

This brutal campaign to eradicate the state of perceived enemies began in the summer of 1936, when Lev Kamenev, Grigorii Zinoviev, and fourteen others were convicted of organizing a “Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist center” and the group was blamed by the state for Sergei Kirov’s assassination in December 1934. This was soon followed by the purge of prominent leaders in the revolution such as Nikolai Bukharin. Others who were executed were: new party members, high ranking military officials, party secretaries, and other officials. However, even poor Soviet citizens who had nothing to do with plotting against the government were searched and arrested by the NKVD. In particular, those citizens who were previously accused of being counter-revolutionary were the main targets of the

the concept of oppression we see that it is a lack of power and unjust

Those in power are often never satisfied with the power that they already hold but rather seek the flaws in other

Before considering oppression in general, we must first note that people and institutions who hold power oftentimes use this power to oppress others.

If all the world’s events were put into one dramatic continuing timeline, it is sad to say that there would be more examples of bad than good. A person looking at the timeline would see bloodshed and tears where oppression and inhumanity were prominent. Major incidents would stand out: the Civil Rights Movement and segregation, and the harsh ways colored people were treated; the Holocaust, and all the blood of the Jews that were slain; and the Rwandan Genocide, with brother fighting and killing brother, and friend fighting and killing friend. These events keep happening in the world’s history due to an invisible force that pushes them: inhumanity and oppression. Oppression is the unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power. Most times, it

As a consequence of the revolt, New Caledonia’s indigenous population was subjected to the ‘code de l’indigénat’ (native code), more or less leaving them to the goodwill of local administrators, without any citizenship rights and vulnerable to punishment for a whole array of offences. The Kanaks were exploited through forced labour while constructing most of the roads on Grande Terre. It is often assumed that Melanesians were not actively taking part in the development of the nation at the end of the 19th century, wich may be erroneous, since, as Latham (2008) points out, they were not only involved in ‘corvée’ labour but appeared to be fervent traders as well (p. 58). As a further form of ethnic segregation, they were forced to live in ‘réserves’

Oppression by definition is an act of cruelty, it cannot longer pass as ignorance or mistake, and it dehumanizes an individual by abusing an unjust power to begin with. For example, in some cultures women are said to be the property of their fathers/husbands and they must obey the men in regards to marriage or even trivial decisions such as clothing. This is an example of women being oppressed, but this extends to every group and stops at nothing – the impaired, the religious, the poor, the elderly, the young, the immigrants and so forth and so on (Thompson, 2012).