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    Rwanda (April 16-22‚ 1994); Choeung Ek‚ Cambodia (April 17‚ 1975--January 7‚ 1979); Treblinka‚ Poland (July 23‚ 1942--October 19‚ 1943); and Wounded Knee‚ USA (December 29‚ 1890). The soundtrack is an evocative mix of traditional singing in Rwandan‚ Khmer‚ Yiddish‚ and Lakota. The music is matched to the imagery of its country of origin‚ though it too blends seamlessly from one site to the next. Despite the difference in the singers’ languages and the instrumentation‚ the songs are surprisingly similar

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    formed his own political movement he called "Buddhist socialism".  It was not at all socialist and the idea was abandoned when Sinhanouk was dethroned and the civil war began. 7.     17 April‚ 1975-1979 – Khmer Rouge rule (communist) 8.     January 6‚ 1979 -- Civil war begins‚ pitting the Khmer Rouge‚ nationalists and royalists against each other. 9.     December 1979 -- Vietnamese troops and the forces of the United front for the National Salvation of Kampuchea fought their way into Cambodia.

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    When she met Jonathan she really liked him but she knew that she was Khmer which is a Mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism and they believed that you had to have an arranged marriage‚ and you cannot pick whoever you wanted to marry‚ unlike Jonathan he was American and he could pick whoever he wanted to marry‚ so Sundara had to

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    Pchum Ben

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    Pchum Ben (Khmer: បុណ្យភ្ជុំបិណ្ឌ); "Ancestors’ Day") is a 15-day Cambodian religious festival‚ culminating in celebrations on the 15th day of the tenth month in the Khmer calendar‚ at the end of the Buddhist lent‚ Vassa.[1][2] In 2012‚ the national holiday fell on the 14th - 16th of October in the Gregorian calendar. The day is a time when many Cambodians pay their respects to deceased relatives of up to 7 generations.[3] Monks chant the suttas inPali language overnight (continuously‚ without

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    Final Tourism Field Work 2

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION My dissertation is devoted to the overall study of impact cultural heritage tourism in Seam Reap‚ Cambodia. It is because Cambodia is rich of the cultural and historical heritage sites‚ when Angkor Wat was listed in World heritage site by UNESCO the tourism industry grows rapidly in the Seam Reap especially the region with historical sites such as temples. The conservation and preservation effort by the relevant sectors also included in the study as it is vital for the future

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    Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi party from 1889-1945‚ Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. Hitler was racially motivated‚ after he took control of the German government in 1933 he established concentration camps where he imprisoned Jews and other groups that he believed were a threat to his beliefs of Aryan supremacy. This resulted in the Holocaust where he was responsible for the murder of more than six million people

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    Terrorism is the simple fact of threatening another country of violence and carrying on with deathly results such as destruction and casualties. Terrorism does work because it creates fears among people. For example‚ in the holocaust‚ the terrorists “Hitler” wanted to whip out of earth an entire race of people called Jews because they lived on the land he controlled. The land that he wanted Germans to live in. To achieve their goals they placed all Jews into ghettos‚ where they died from starvation

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    Vietnam Independence

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    c) How did the world community respond?  ­ Countries who fought for North Vietnam  ● Soviet Union (Russia)    ● China   ● Viet cong   ● Khmer Rouge  ● Pathet Lao  ● Cuba   ● North Korea   ● Czechoslovakia  ● Bulgaria  ­ Forces that fought with South Vietnam  ● Philippines   ● United States of America   ● South Korea   ● Australia  ● Thailand  ● New Zealand  ● Khmer Republic   ● Kingdom of Laos   ● Taiwan   ● Spain    Notable things that took place   Us ­domino     d) How was

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    people" from Cambodia and Laos‚ and the "boat people" from Vietnam. The reasons for this move were that Vietnam’s internal economic problems and tensions between the Soviet Union‚ Vietnam’s main ally‚ and China‚ the principal source of arms for the Khmer Rouge and other groups battling the Vietnamese in Cambodia. After the change of governments in Vietnam and Cambodia and amidst turmoil in the mid 1970s‚ many Southeast Asians‚ fearing reprisals‚ emigrated from these countries. Among them were children

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    After more than a decade of spectacular growth‚ Tourism has played an important role in the development of Cambodia. It has brought employment‚ improvements in infrastructure‚ training and general education and living standards for many people‚ and raised the international profile of Cambodia. Its growth has helped diversify economic activity‚ and broaden the base of foreign earnings. Tourism statistics of Cambodia In recent years‚ the question of how to increase the yield from each tourist;

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