Cambodian Genocide

By Jay, Jasmine, Dajon, Melissa, Alex

Perpetrators

Pol Pot Khamer Rouge Was the government. Pol Pot leader of the gov. By 1962, Pol Pot had

become leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape the wrath of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia. In the jungle, Pol Pot formed an armed resistance movement that became known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3nBDtKg_U

Victims

Ethnically, the targets of the cleansing were Vietnamese and Chinese nationals, Muslims (particularly ethnic Chams), and Buddhist monks. They all were virtually, if not entirely, eliminated from the population by expulsion, execution, or starvation.

The small Communist group, the Khmer Rouge, grew in popularity and by 1975 was able to take over, proclaiming the

How

They were going to cleanse the people aka kill them . There was no technology used during the Cambodian

Genecide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3nBDtKg_U They had a new president and they started attacking and

that is how the war started. An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a

Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.

Waged a guerrilla war against Sihanouk's government.

Media Outlets

Duch did not speak during his first day in court, and full testimony is not expected to be heard until substantive hearings in March. But the classroom walls at Tuol Sleng speak for themselves, hung with the black and white mug shots of many of the 14,000 men, women and children who were imprisoned and tortured until they confessed to betraying Pol Pot's revolution. Later they were trucked to the outskirts of Phnom Penh where, blindfolded, they were dispatched standing at the edge of mass graves that would later be dubbed "the killing fields."

As historically important as Tuesday's initial hearing was — hundreds turned up at the court, including scores of international and local journalists — outside the confines of the ECCC, the start of Duch's trial seemed underwhelming to many people. Not one of more than a dozen people interviewed had tuned in to watch the live television broadcast of the trial's opening salvos, including two women selling entrance tickets to the Tuol Sleng museum, who didn't know that the prison's former director was even standing trial.

MLA

"The Cambodian Genecide." The Genecide. 2008. http://www.cambodiangenocide.org/genocide.htm. 19 May 2009

Republic of Democratic Kampuchea. jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2008/01/will-

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