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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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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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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Fiorella Navarro Period 3B Mr.Bailey 5/2/13 “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.” Macbeth and Pol Pot Lord Acton’s quote‚ “Absolute power corrupts absolutely‚” relates to Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Pol Pot. Having power drives certain individuals to to turn against the less powerful. Two such examples are Pol Pot and Macbeth. The play Macbeth by Shakespeare is one of the best examples of how too much power can corrupt certain individuals. When Macbeth hears the witches’ prophecies in
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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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classicism of that period. Moulin Rogue takes place in Montmarte (an area within the city of Paris). Crowning the Montmartre- based world of commercial entertainment was Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler’s landmark music hall‚ the Moulin Rouge. When the Moulin Rouge opened its door on the Place Blanche at the foot of Montmartre on the 6th of October 1889‚ all Paris turned out. Highbrow and lowbrow society alike mobbed the ‘Palace of Women’ before the paintwork was dry on its extravagantly decorated
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decades‚ Cambodia has suffered through war‚ political disorder and genocide. On April 17th 1975 after winning the civil war‚ the Khmer Rouge gained the control of the Phnom Penh. This communist guerrilla group led by Pol Pot would cause unimaginable devastation and misery throughout Cambodia for the next three years‚ eight months and twenty days. The Khmer Rouge forced the people of Cambodia to the countryside and to labor camps. Families were separated‚ children taken away from their parents
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Cambodian genocide and the holocaust were two of the most brutal genocide we come to think about today. Cambodian genocide occurred in Cambodia and everything began and happened after a war. It was and inner war going ahead inside Cambodia and the Vietnam was additionally having one and this is the thing that prompted genocide. When Cambodia was seen as a frail power they began to get demise dangers from all over and this made them essentially surrender. They needed to surrender on the grounds that
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The author of When Broken Glass Floats is Chanrithy Him. Him was born in Cambodia in 1965 so she is currently forty-seven years old. She has only written one book‚ which is her autobiography about her struggles as a young child living through the Khmer Rouge. Her book has won the 2001 Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction. Her book has also inspired a film which is called “The Will to Live”. Ms. Him is currently a public speaker sharing her story to children. She has lost her parents‚ brothers‚ sisters
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