Cambodia

After that, he began to go to a French Catholic primary school. He continued his learning until 1949, where he went to Paris, France. He studied radio technology and was an avid communist. After his arrival back to Cambodia, he had found that its people were rebelling against French rule, a year later they got their independence. From 1956, Pot had taught history, geography and French literature, all while he had joined a secret communist party and plotting a revolution

This paper investigates and distinguishes, through my opinion, the impacts that Khmer Rouge’s also known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) had on a global scale. First, by addressing the impacts to the immediate country, Cambodia and the tactics used by this abhorrent organization. Furthermore, the ideologies used by said organization, to instill fear and distrust in the population; which lead to there early demise, but not after 1.7 million people lost or sacrificed there lives for their

Thailand, Lois, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The land suffers from monsoons. Specifically, through dry and humid seasons. The dry seasons experiences excessive heat. The humid or ‘rain’ season experiences irregular rainfall which becomes it’s heaviest in the later months, causing flooding and a massive rise to its general water levels. In the center of Cambodia there is a specific lake that quadruples its size during the rainy season. The primary source of food in Cambodia is rice. Rice is generally planted

was a leader of the Khmer Rouge and committed the Cambodia genocide. Mao Zedong was the leader of China and he committed the Great Chinese Famine. Both countries were communist; Cambodia became a communist country after it was taken over by the Khmer Rouge. Both Pol Pot and Mao Zedong were fearless leaders who would give the order to commit violence. Pol Pot played a role in mass violence in Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. While taking over Cambodia, people were relocated, starved, and executed. The

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

who deals with the inhumanity that was the Cambodia genocide. While in the documentary, Enemies of the People, co-directed by Thet Sambath telling a similar story, however in the eyes of the offenders that afflicted brutal pain and torture to over 2 million Cambodians in the killing fields. Two different accounts on the genocide that rocked Cambodia to the core in the 1970’s. Though they are both two different sides

and the World Trade Center honors those who were involved in 9/11. All of these monuments and memorials are very popular; however, there is a little known architectural masterpiece called Angkor Wat or “temple city” in Cambodia that is worthy of discussion. Located at Angkor, Cambodia, it was built in the early 12th century for King Suryavarman II. The building was to be his temple and capital city, which was dedicated to the Hindu God, Vishnu. After some time the Hindu religious site turned

living in Cambodia were targeted by a communist group called the Khmer Rouge. Victims such as Cham Muslims, Buddhist Monks, Christians, and anyone who was considered a threat to the ultimate goal of the perpetrators were extensively tortured or brutally murdered. Year Zero was a society that the leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, wanted Cambodia to adapt. In order to do carry out his plan, he made everyone become farmers and started the genocide by evacuating the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

On April 2, 2017, I interviewed my mother Tracy To, who is 53 years old. She experienced the harsh events of being involved in a communist war in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Luckily she was able to escape the control of Pol Pot and the mass genocide that followed shortly. In 1974, she was one of the 158,000 of Cambodians who sought refuge in the United States and become an immigrant in California. During this time period, the Vietnam war also ended and the United States faced an influx of millions

Introduction The purpose of this project was to measure the impact of training projects for professionals in Cambodia. The term professionals in this article includes administrators and staff employed by a non-governmental organization (“NGO”) who attended the training session. In past trips, training in-services for teachers were conducted by McMaster scholars in the cities of Phnom Penh, Battambang, Tekeo, and several rural school districts. The reason for conducting in-services for teachers was