Khmer Rouge

Throughout the entirety of their regime, the Khmer Rouge, known initially as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), perpetrated various crimes against humanity as well as war crimes; violating and depriving citizens from their most basic human rights. Influenced by a Communist agrarian utopia and dissatisfied with the economic situation in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge wanted to restart civilization, and create a "pure", rural, classless society. In the attempts to do so, they abolished all private property

The Khmer Rouge was able to inflict a great deal of misery on the people of Cambodia due to this country being located in the wrong place at the wrong time. Discuss. The Khmer Rouge (KR) was a communist guerrilla organisation which opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960’s due to the counties involvement and downfall due to the Vietnam War, taking full power of the nation in 1975. Cambodia became involved in the Vietnam due to their neighbouring vicinity to the country, as well its ruler of

The Khmer Rouge, otherwise known as the communist party of Kampuchea, was a socialist movement and they had control over Cambodia from 1975-1979. However, only the members of the movement and their leader, Pol Pot knew about it until 1977. The group first emerged when their country was in a struggle for land against French colonists. Cambodia was already in the middle of a civil war that had been going on since the 1940's, when this happened. The leaders involved in the Khmer Rouge strongly believed

history of the world. It was one of the most atrocious acts, since 1945, ever done on its own people by Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot. 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 1975, the Khmer Rouge started the genocide. The Genocide (a major killing of a large group of people mainly of those of

regime, called the Khmer Rouge, headed by Pol Pot, brutally killed twenty five percent of Cambodia’s original population. The Khmer Rouge regime savagely stole resources and countless skilled Cambodians and created immense suffering for survivors. Sisowath is only one of the innumerable individuals who endured a struggle for survival and perished during

thing they needed to concern themselves with was the revolution. Because such a forced change in public policy rarely comes about smoothly, the Khmer Rouge set up barbaric tactics to maintain control of their people (Sharp). 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

Communist Party of Kampuchea, led by Pol Pot, invaded Phnom Penh and overthrew Lon Nol’s U.S. supported military dictatorship. The Communist Party of Kampuchea, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, was a Cambodian political party that based its ideals on nationalism, communism, and agrarian socialism. The Khmer Rouge first gained attention during communist movement that emerged from the anti-colonial struggle against France. During French rule, Cambodia was under the influence of western ideas and

wicked revolutionary Pol Pot who led the Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia from 1963 until 1997. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were in pursuit of transforming the Cambodian society to a utopian one and bringing the country to ‘’year zero’’ as Pol Pot put it. In only four years, from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge forces killed two million people while the devastation Pol Pot wreaked on his country remains hard to comprehend. The rise to power of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was inseparable from US intervention

The documentary that was played in class discussed the atrocities and the violent acts that the Cambodian people had experienced during the Khmer Rouge. The most important takeaways that I got from watching these movies was that the Khmer Rouge occurred in large part to paranoia and that the main leaders who were in charge of the killings regretted their decisions. The main leaders, such as Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, largely authorized this genocide. Nuon Chea explicitly said that he was sorry and completely

has been significantly affected by the ongoing communism and the rule of the Khmer Rouge during the 20th century. Referred to as The Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodian genocide, Year Zero and the Cambodian Holocaust, the rule of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1975-1979 has had a devastating impact on Cambodia and the country’s condition in the 21st century. Led by Pol Pot, the beliefs and objectives of the Khmer Rouge has resulted in Cambodia’s loss of culture and identity, the deaths of approximately