Genocide In Cambodia

“Estimated total number of victims of genocide in the twentieth century at 39 million” (Grant 16). This was only in the twentieth century and genocide has been going on for several more centuries. Genocide is a hate crime of mass killing against a group based on their beliefs. The Holocaust and Cambodian Crisis are examples of this. The crime is led by usually organizations or governments. Genocide has had an immense influence on society by the overtaking of political systems, the development of organizations to put an end to the atrocity, and the occurrences have brought awareness to the harm.
In Rwanda their political system was disrupted entirely through the dispute between the two of the region's tribes, the Hutu and Tutsi. According
Cambodia officially gained independence from France in 1953. This new change in leadership changed the nation, the country from that point was bound to be different socially. Zimmer, Knodel, and Sovan-Kim described “the Pol Pot led Khmer Rouge was a particularly brutal and genocidal regime...Hundreds of thousands of executions took place as the regime attempted to rid itself of dissenters"(5). The new regime that seized leadership of the recently independent country was extremely brutal to the civilians that went against their rules. As a result of the thousands dead, Cambodia's population was heavily affected, therefore causing a steep decline in their economy. The nation's place in the world fell under. "Lon Nol government, were deemed to be a threat to the regime and were eliminated”(Zimmer, Knodel, Sovan-Kim 4). At the same time the regime’s hold on power was dwindling, they constantly had a short food supply and were barely able to feed their followers. Disease was also a common factor that eliminated the majority of their workers. This led to the downfall of the regime and to their loss of power in
Through the genocide in parts of a country when another opposing party in the country tries to resolve the dispute a civil wars may erupted. In a paper titled “Economic and Political Causes of Civil War in Africa: Some Econometric Results” explained that “civil wars are defined to occur only where the state is one party”(Anyanwu). He also wrote that " Increasing environmental and population pressures tend to increase the likelihood of such conflicts..."(Anyanwu). While civil wars are fought internally between a nation, genocide can reach outside of other nations to decimate the intended group. Generally tribes in Africa will start disputes over water, where in the region water is scarce and tribes have to defend the little amount they have for their