culture‚ nightlife‚ sightseeing‚ and people whereas the bad thing about Phnom Penh is traffic‚ food‚ and dirty. The first good thing about Phnom Penh is culture. The two most visited museums in the city are the National Museum‚ which is the country’s leading historical and archaeological museum‚ and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum‚ a former Khmer Rouge prison. And the second thing is nightlife because Phnom Penh now is fully security. Most people like going for a walk in the midnight to meet and drink beer
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Outcome One (Major Assessment) The Killing Fields Were Inevitable (1. What were the happenings proceeding the event of the Killing Fields?) During the last three 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
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"cleansing" of society. The mass murder of a people or peoples is facilitated through this process. Dehumanization literally means to deprive a person or group of human qualities or attributes. Courtesy of DCCam. Tuol Sleng Prison. It should noted that classification‚ symbolization‚ and dehumanization all reinforce one another and are deeply intertwined. Racially or ideologically inspired hate speech inherently dehumanizes the "other"‚ but is also simultaneously
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What is it that brings all dictators together in comparison? Is it their ruthless actions towards others? Could it be their thirst for power? Or maybe it’s the fact that all dictators use others to gain for themselves. "He [Napoleon] would only be too happy to let you make your decisions by yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions‚ comrades‚ and then where would we be?" (Orwell page 50). These examples prove Napoleon‚ ruler of Animal Farm‚ and Pol Pot‚ ruler of Cambodia‚ are indeed
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One and a half to three MILLION people died in the Cambodian genocide. Genocide is the extermination of an entire race or group of people‚ or trying to completely wipe them out. That means there is murdering of the people‚ causing serious physical or mental harm‚ inflicting on group conditions to cause it’s destruction‚ terminate births within the group‚ or transferring people from the group to another group. In a genocide the most disgusting things are done‚ people are tortured‚ raped‚ worked to
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Genocide: For the Dead and Living We Must Bear Witness Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person. The right to life seems like the most basic right; a person is born‚ and they have the right to breathe air‚ drink water‚ and make any other necessary decisions to live. However‚ every now and then someone (or a group of people) decides that a person‚ or an entire race‚ does not deserve to live. Genocide‚ the purposeful
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ILAS 225 November 29‚ 2011 The Indonesian Genocide To this day‚ the story of the Indonesian Genocide is still relatively unknown. It is only partially told‚ and partly visible through a thick haze of trickery and deception. Between October 1965 and 1966‚ it is estimated that between 500‚000 and 3‚000‚000 people were killed throughout various Indonesian islands‚ including Java‚ Sumatra‚ and Bali (the actual number will never be known for sure). The events that unfolded during this period
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are rightful; he argues that these are some of the practices that should never be regarded as an alternative. Goodman addresses these areas as: Genocide‚ politically induced famine‚ germ warfare‚ terrorism‚ hostage taking‚ child warriors‚ slavery‚ polygamy‚ incest‚ rape and female genital cutting (Goodman‚ 2010‚ pg.88). According to Goodman‚ “Genocide is uglier than murder because it targets individuals as members of a group”. It includes eliminating a certain group of people or a tribe. In some
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extermity with me‚ you hope for some understainding‚ some insight‚ some flicker of self-knowledge---a moral‚ or a loesson or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don ’t discount the possibility‚ but when it comes to genocide‚ you already know right from wrong. The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda ’s stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it. . . ." (At p. 19.) Gourevitch tells in
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Genocide As stated by the United Nations Genocide Convention‚ genocide is a coordinated plan to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group‚ by killing‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction‚ preventing births within the group ‚ or removing children from the group. The term did not exist until Raphael Lemkin devised the word in 1944. Therefore there was no legal mechanism for the international community
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