Cambodian Genocide
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Cambodian GenocideBy: Shardei Lozada
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Vocabulary:• Communism: A type of government where the government owns all
businesses and farms and provides health care, education, and welfare.
• Monarchy: The king and queen, power passed through the family.
• Rural: in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the city
• Non-Valuable: Mentally challenged people, handicap etc.
• Military coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power
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Origins of Conflict
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Government Monarchy ---> Communism
Helped- Pol Pot wanted control of everything however he didn't
provide education, welfare or health care.
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Pol PotKhmer Rouge Leader
• Classless society o No one owned private property or moneyo all goods would have to be exchanged
• Self Sufficient o Capable of feeding itself
• Get rid of:o Banks, education, medicine, books, and hospitals. (organization)
Media was censored and books were burnt. (State Sovereignty)
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Slogan Dehumanization
“To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is not loss” - Khmer Rouge Slogan
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Genocide
•The Khmer Rouge called the Vietnamese ‘monsters’, because they wanted to gain more land. (Dehumanization)
• Food productivity drastically fell because the Khmer Rouge continued to export food to china, which led to starvation.
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Targets
o People wearing glasses, thought to be a symbol of intelligence (symbolization)
o Resistors to Utopian/communist, non-valuable members of society (classification)
o Former Lon Nol government soldiers, civil servants, Buddhist monks, ethnic and religious minorities, elderly citizens, and groups of people to have thought to have contact with Vietnamese (polarization)
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Preparation for genocide • Government clothing: Black pants and shirt
• People were sent to work camps (Preparation)
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Execution • Approximately. 1.7 million died because of starvation,
execution, disease, overwork, exposure to elements. 25% of countries pop. (Extermination)
• Resistors to the Khmer Rouge policies were executed by beatings disembowelment or having nails hammered into the back of their heads. (Extermination)
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Response International
o Smuggling Cambodians out of the country
o Small effort to raise funds.o It was nearly impossible to for the
outside world to gain firsthand knowledge.
o In the end very little time, money and attention was given to the Cambodian genocide
United States
o Winning the Cold War.o The US had not yet signed the
Genocide Convention therefore did not feel obligated to contribute time, energy or money.
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Recoveryo Genocide ended in 1979 when
Vietnamese invaded Cambodiao People were able to own property and
Buddhism was revived as the state religion.
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Justiceo The trials to hold the Khmer Rouge
leaders accountable for genocide and crimes began in 1998. Leader Pol Pot died in 1998, before he could be tried.
o In September of 2010 four top Khmer Rouge officials were charged for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Vann Nath
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Thank You for
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Bibliography o http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htmo www.dictionary.como http:/ghscambodiangenocide1.pbworks.com/w/page/25180155/8%20Stages%20of%20Ca
mbodian%20Genocide/o http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1879785,00.htmlo http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~amamendo/photos.htmlo Book