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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, a Polish-Jewish jurist was trying to get protection for oppressed minorities. When the Nazis invaded Poland,

As the Khmer Rouge caused disastrous suffering and death within the community of dancers and musicians, they also had an impact on the performance itself. One of these impacts did not lead to a direct change but to consequences that complicate safeguarding. As Banham states, “virtually all documents on performance – libraries and photographs – had been destroyed” by the Khmer Rouge (1995, 152-156). Furthermore, the instruments of the pin peat orchestra that usually accompany the classical dance

The Cambodian Genocide was a mass murder carried out by the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot, which was to make Cambodia an agrarian utopia. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge got control of Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, and kicked out then prime minister Lon Nol’s government. Then they immediately began emptying the city’s population into labor camps in the countryside. After forcing the Cambodians to the labor camps, they began implementing this horrific and terrible regime against the

played a role in the Cham culture. Other smaller minorities in Cambodia, also faced execution, torture and other discriminations. The survivors of the massacre for some ethnic groups were nowhere to be found. This shows how the main goal in the Khmer Rouge army is to destroy or assimilate anyone who belonged to a different ethnic or religious group (Kiernan, 83). Difference between the citizens had to be abolished. All

A Community Assessment of 70806 Baton Rouge. The 70806 of Baton Rouge, LA consists of a diverse community of college students, low income and middle class income areas. Driving through the community reveals income inequality, poverty and opulence, homelessness and extravagant houses, healthy youth and elderly sick individuals. It was a challenge to assess the 70806 due to the great diversity but a much greater challenge to come up with viable. Description of the Community The community of 70806

Cambodia is still underdeveloped. Cambodia was totally destroyed by the Pol Pot regime, Khmer Rouge, in between 1975 to 1979. Four million people were killed, most educated people, and the entire country was covered by dead bodies and empty houses. People were not allowed to live in their house, and they were not allowed to own any property. In fact, everything they had belonged to the regime, and they were forced to live and work so hard in the rice field without providing enough food. Because that

During the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia was turned into a giant labor camp creating a system of terror, genocide, and attempted cultural annihilation-a series of drastic events that the country is still recovering from. The years contained within this regime were devastating for the nation of Cambodia, with the establishment of the Khmer Rouge, a left-wing Communist political party whose actions have had an overwhelmingly detrimental effect on the political, economic and social structure of Cambodia-ruining

The Khmer Rouge is a tragic event of torture, separation and death for all who had resided in Cambodia at the time, during the Khmer Rouge lives of millions, has been lost through many different horrible ways. This is all due for the sake of “equality” where communism has risen in the area and took control, king overthrown, has now begun the start of a revolution of classlessness. The Khmer Rouge was the rising of the infamous dictator Pol Pot, and his primitive ways. Pot did anything to make his

During the 1970s, Cambodia was under the communist government and started to have the war within the own nation. Begin of 1975 Khmer Rouge (pol pot) got the chance to control the whole nation and started to evacuate all the rich and educated residents from the capital city (Phnom Penh) to live in every far villages from the city. The prime minister of Khmer Rouge put the order for the soldiers killed all the educated such as professors, singers, actors, reporters, and included the doctors. As my

Key motivations of the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Genocide were the idealisation of rural life and society, belief in radical political reform and desire for territorial expansion. These beliefs were reinforced by external political movements and thoughts including Maoism. The history of Cambodia during the era of Democratic Kampuchea remains a topic of controversy. Was the genocide unleashed an inherent part of the regime’s beliefs or was it a by-product of the Khmer Rouge’s greater objectives