Majority rule is the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power. The Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia is a good example of a majority rule government. During the Cambodian genocide‚ the Khmer Rouge and their notorious leader‚ Pol Pot‚ represented the majority after it defeated the Lol Non government. The question is how are they considered to be the majority when most of the population of Cambodia is against them? They used fear to make the people their followers and thus controlled
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support for the Khmer Rouge. With the economic support‚ the Khmer Rouge was able to afford to continue their reign over Cambodia. The United States also aided in the destruction of the Cambodia that existed before Pol Pot by bombing and killing up to 150‚000 Cambodian citizens in support of this regime (The Original Cambodian‚ 1993). This accounts for ten percent of the total death toll that resulted in this ruling. Along with the U.S.‚ China also expressed support for the Khmer Rouge. They allied with
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The History of Cambodia: Exacerbating Human Trafficking Introduction A tragic fact that plagues the world today is the practice of selling humans as chattel every day. Reduce‚ reuse‚ and recycle is not only just a motto for a greener environment‚ but also a concept that can be applied to selling human lives. The oppressors reduce the millions of victims that are enslaved into the human trafficking system to objects to sell. The victims are reused daily by their buyers and are recycled by society
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1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period‚ where Pol Pot ‚ Nuon Chea‚ Ieng Sary‚ Son Sen‚ Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party took over Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge renamed it as Democratic Kampuchea. The four-year period of their rule was enough to see the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions‚ starvation‚ and forced labor. Due to the large number of deaths‚ during the rule of the Khmer Rouge‚ this is commonly known as the Cambodian
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could never forget. I had returned to Cambodia in 2006‚ from there I had learned many historical events during my time. One event that I remember was July 2006‚ Ta Mok who was one of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge died at age 80. I learned that Cambodian court was keeping hostage of the Khmer Rouge leaders to sentence them for their crime. There were always fights between Cambodia and neighboring countries for the land of Cambodia referring to 2008 event when Thailand wanted to claim Preah Vihear
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Narratives are powerful forces that can engender both atrocities and healing. For example‚ the narrative of protecting one’s country from enemies was central to the Khmer Rouge genocide. However‚ victims like Loung Ung can also use purposive narratives to cope and heal by processing them into habitable memories. The dominant narrative regarding the injustice of Jim Crow today highlights the consequences of denying such histories. By allowing the narrative of active avoidance to reproduce in schools
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Pol Pot‚ the leader of the communist party known as the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. He aimed to convert Cambodia into his vision of a communist agrarian society. However‚ in doing so he administered the deaths of more than two million Cambodians and under his rule Cambodians suffered harsh realities. Towards the end of his four years in power he left the country in turmoil as the economy was destroyed and the country regressed to an impoverished state as Pol Pot hindered any progress
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kept the skulls of those he killed. He viewed their lives as they were nothing. His sole rule was responsible of the death of 25-33% equivalent of about 1.5 million people of the country’s population . Pol Pot retreated into Thailand with some of his Khmer army and had begun a guerilla warfare for the next 17 years. After some power struggles in the 1900’s‚ Pol pot had finally lost control and in April 1998 Pol Pot died of a heart attack after her arrest. He died
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bombed heavily and indiscriminately by American forces‚ in an effort to dislodge them (Emmons‚ Eveland‚ Lin-Liu‚ and White‚ 2011). In 1970 Lon Nol was installed as leader of Cambodia. Then in 1975 the Khmer Rouge led by the Pol Pot regime‚ took control and led the nation as a great tyrant. Khmer Rouge ruled and the wars that came both before and after decimated Cambodia
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Never Fall Down The Khmer Rouge a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975. When it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people who were mostly cambodian. Mainly‚ remembered for orchestrating the Cambodian genocide. Millions of those deaths had to do a lot with murder‚ diseases such as malaria‚ and then the rest were tortured on daily accounts. The acts of cruelty from the Khmer Rouge were very horrifying
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