lost lives‚ not the Hutus‚ the world. Thirty five years after we said it would never happen again‚ it happened again. Once again we turned our backs and acted like nothing happened once again. Our minds went blank like a nine year old boy. The Khmer Rouge committed genocide by killing off many people. We knew it was going on and we did nothing about it. Many lives could of ben saved. Today sixty seven years after we said never genocide strikes again. In Sudan many are being killed today. We still
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------------------------------------------------- (B) Supra-national Organizations Choose ONE specific supra-national organization (not necessarily from the above list) and discuss the following issues (these are only random suggestion. You may define your own. (i) What is the nature of this organization? Who are its members? (ii) What influence does it have on your own country? (iii) What influence does it have on other nations? Supra-national Nature Supranational organizations are international
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Century. After the independence from the colonial power France on 9th November 1953‚ the country was faced with decades of civil war. Many inhabitants died and the economy was hardly damaged. Furthermore‚ the Vietnam War and the dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 brought the country economic decline. Cambodia now has about 15 million inhabitants‚ of which 95% are Buddhists. The head of state is the King Norodom Sihamoni‚ who was crowned on 29/10/2004 and governs the country‚ which is
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war Vietnam was an extremely dangerous country to live in‚ hundreds of civilians died every day because of the conflict‚ causing many to flee to save their children and loved ones. As a result of the war‚ Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge. Many Cambodians were killed‚ many were forced into manual labour and many managed to escape. Many Cambodians fled to the massive refugee camps along the Thai border where they would stay for years‚ hoping for resettlement. The camps were overcrowded
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Modern History Summary World War 1 1914-1919 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to Austrian throne‚ assassinated 28th June 1914‚ invoked war * July Crisis 1914 led to multiple Euro nations declaring war against each other‚ separated into Allied (Britain‚ France‚ Russia) and Central Powers (Germany‚ Austria-Hungary) * Schlieffen Plan * Based on idea that Germany would have to fight France/Russia‚ didn’t want to fight them both at once * France would expect Germany to invade
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futures cut short when more lives are taken. But genocide targets individuals as members of a group‚ seeking to destroy a race‚ a culture‚ a linguistic or ethnic identity‚ even a class as the Soviets did in the Ukraine‚ or Mao in China‚ or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The target is a way of life” (Goodman‚
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and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Belligerents Anti-communist forces: South Vietnam United States South Korea Australia Thailand New Zealand Khmer Republic Kingdom of Laos Supported by: Philippines Taiwan Japan Communist forces: North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao Supported by: China Soviet Union Cuba[1][2] North Korea Czechoslovakia[3][4] Bulgaria[5] Commanders and leaders Ngô Đình Diệm Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn
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Cattle cars. Burning bodies. Auschwitz. These words are engraved in the mind of every Jewish person on Earth. After decades‚ Holocaust survivors still have nightmares about these thoughts. One word‚ one indescribable word‚ will forever stay with these people. Holocaust. Many people of the Jewish faith realize the power of that word‚ but many others still need to learn. A man is sitting peacefully in his home; he has no worries‚ even when Nazi soldiers dragged him into the horrendous ghettos
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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
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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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