Moulin rouge

The act of genocide is an extremity that accompanies the ever modernizing world, a reality that is increasingly discovered as the twentieth century inched toward the twenty-first. Cambodia, a country located in southeast Asia, is unlucky enough to have fallen under the terror of their own personalized war on humanity. A purpose whose plans took root in the quest for an egalitarian system, and thus purposefully began attacking its own economy. All the while destroying any constructs the Pol Pot regime

controlling power. Pol Pot 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

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

1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge carried out a genocide in Cambodia killing all people who seemed to oppose them and their communist government (“The Cambodian Genocide”). Before genocide had a name, Raphael Lemkin,

The group named The Khmer Rouge killed anyone who was in their way. Although some may argue otherwise, that

and many Cambodians suffered so much from the genocide during the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970. One out of Three of the population in Cambodia died during that time. It has been established that the Khmer Rouge targeted particular groups of people, among them were educated elites. The elites consisted of masters, Ph.D., professors, students, and international student. In addition, people who have survived from the Khmer Rouge (pol pot) lied about their education. If they knew that they lied, they

Why Genocide? Kofi Annan once said “a genocide begins with the killing of one man- not for what he has done, but because of who he is.” The meaning of genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. In the Cambodian Genocide 1-2 million innocent people were killed, in the Rwandan Genocide an estimated 800,000-1 million people were slaughtered over the course of 100 days, and in the Holocaust 12 million were killed. Through studying the

a reunion with my grandfather. We visited the historical killing fields and the S-21 Prison. These places had a profound effect on me. Thus, I now have a better understanding of how my grandparents and parents experience by the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Realizing that, I now fully appreciate the significant and importance of my life. While my trip to Cambodia, I had many wonderful experiences such as visiting Angkor wat and the nice warm ocean. However, I witness many of my age and young homeless

and Norodom Sihanouk, the Vietnamese had several motives for an invasion. Spragens elaborated on Vietnam’s New Economic Zone; Khmer Rouge raids were quite frequent in this region. Therefore, the citizens of this section began to voice their vexation, and Vietnam faced severe pressure, whether they can protect and provide stability to this region. Along with that, the Vietnamese were

In the book Shadow of the Banyan, it follows the main characters of the story through the revolution in cambodia that takes place after the Vietnam war. During the revolution, soldiers force Cambodian people from their homes and out of their towns and tells them to leave because Americans are going to bomb. In the book this happens to the main character Rammi and her family. As you read Shadow of the bayan the characters grow and adapt to what their lives have become. Rammi is seven in the beginning