Saloth Sar) was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 to 1997. From 1963 to 1981‚ he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. As such‚ he became the leader of Cambodia on April 17‚ 1975‚ when his forces Phnom Penh. From 1976 to 1979‚ he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea. In
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INSTRUMENTS OF SOUTHERN ASIAN COUNTRY A. LAOS 1.[pic] The khene (/ˈkɛn/; also spelled "khaen"‚ "kaen" and "khen"; Lao: ແຄນ; Thai: แคน‚ RTGS: khaen‚ pronounced [kʰɛ̄ːn]; Vietnamese: khèn; Khmer: គែន) is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes‚ which are usually made of bamboo‚ are connected with a small‚ hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown‚ creating a sound similar to that of the violin. This is classified as Aerophone. 2.[pic] The đàn bầu (pronounced [ɗǎn ɓə̌w]; ")
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trouble because she is not supposed to talk to boys let alone white boys. Only because her aunt and uncle want her to be a good Khmer wife. This makes it so Sundara’s life is more like a river. Only because she can’t talk to whom she wants to. In the beginning of the book Sundara didn’t have the choice to come to the states. “’get out! Get out! The communists! The Khmer Rouge! They’ve taken Phnom Penh and they’re coming here!’” (Crew 3). Sundara and her family had to come to the states. The states
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INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………... Page 3 II. GEOGRAPHY……………………………………………………….. Page 3 III. THE PEOPLE……………………………………………………….. Page 4 IV. HISTORY…………………………………………………………….. Page 6 V. POL POT AND THE KHMER ROUGE…………………….……. Page 7 VI. THE EXODUS…………………………………………………..….. Page 10 VII. END OF THE KHMER ROUGE………………………………….. Page 13 VIII. U.S. RESPONSE…………………………………………………... Page 15 IX. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ……………………………….. Page 18 X. CAMBODIA TODAY……………………………………………… Page 20
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successful overthrow to depose Prince Sihanouk as head of state. At this time‚ the Khmer Rouge had gained members and was positioned to become a major player in the civil war due to its alliance with Sihanouk. The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)‚ otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge‚ took control of Cambodia on April 17‚ 1975. The CPK created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until
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different preserving their culture. Now let’s me take Cambodian culture and how to keep Khmer culture to describe about what i have known and study before. So‚ how i keep my country to enable for a long time? Cambodia has a lot of religion that come to live like Chines‚ Vietnamese‚ French etc. However they don’t live in their country‚ they still respect and keep their culture. So‚ i am Khmer‚ live in territory Khmer‚ I must to pride and help to keep culture property of my country. Preserving culture
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through art‚ like music. If Pond was a slow learner‚ he would have been killed by Khmer Rouge. Three boys out of five were slow to learn‚ they get killed by the Khmer Rouge. A Hospital heals a person‚ but music heals your spirit‚ emotions and the mind. He was spared the murder that befell 80%-90% of the Cambodia in 1975. Pond‚ had survived
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family after the Cambodian Genocide in 1975‚ one can assume that these reasons include economic breakdown (continuity of the Angkar trading crops for firearms)‚ government collapse (changes in the soldiers’ behavior towards the villagers‚ continuity of Khmer Rouge killing villagers at Lo Reap)‚ and the lack of social interactions (changes in communication within the village of Lo Reap). The economic breakdown had a great deal of impact on the Ung family because of the Angkar constantly exchanging crops
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In 1975‚ The Khmer Rouge became the ruling political party of Cambodia after overthrowing the Lon Nol government. Following their leader Pol Pot‚ the Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering on Cambodian society. They wanted to form an anti-modern‚ anti-Western ideal of a restructured “classless agrarian society’’‚ a radical form of agrarian communism where the whole population had to work in collective farms or forced labor projects. The Khmer Rouge revolutionary army enforced
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Pol Pot‚ leader of the radical Khmer Rouge in Cambodia stands as one of the most savage mass murderers in the history of the world. In an attempt to create a utopian agrarian society‚ Pol Pot eliminated all opponents to his totalitarian regime. Up to 2‚000‚000 Cambodians lost their lives to this cleansing‚ the equivalent of more than twenty-five percent of the entire population. The world looks on in horror at the aftermath of this destruction. Pol Pot‚ or Saloth Sar‚ was born on May 19‚ 1925‚ in
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