Poverty in Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge

Poverty in Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge

Bibliography:

http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/

http://www.poverties.org/poverty-in-cambodia.html

Life in Cambodia today:

Nearly two million Cambodians died from diseases due to a lack of medicines and medical services, starvation, execution, or exhaustion from overwork

Tens of thousands were made widows and orphans, and those who lived through the regime were severely traumatized by their experiences.

Many fled the country and became refugees

Poverty In Cambodia

A large portion of people in Cambodia are diagnosed with being mental ill, do to the loss of family members and damaged spirits

The country counts among the poorest in the world by many economic and social indicators.

Poverty in Cambodia has been slashed from nearly 50% to 35% between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

These factors are one of the major causes of the poverty that plagues Cambodia today.

Many regions have managed to develop reasonably well, while others have direly lagged behind and lacked government help

Poverty in Cambodia is the impact on the environment.

Today Cambodia's main struggle is there healthcare system as they suffer greatly from malnutrition and starvation.

Food price crisis have become a huge issue for Cambodia with food prices rising, creating a shortage in food intake, leading to poor employment work which then begins to relate to the family life.

The country is steadily losing its forests and their resources.

Extreme poverty in Cambodia caused by diseases and under-developed health care is the biggest challenge the nation has to face

How did it all begin?

The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975

turned the country into a huge detention center, which later became a graveyard for nearly two million people

Khmer Rouge forced perhaps two million people in Phnom Penh and other cities into the countryside to undertake agricultural work.

Video Of Khmer Rouge

They wanted to transform Cambodia into a rural, classless society in which there were no rich people, no poor people, and no exploitation

To accomplish this, they abolished money, free markets, normal schooling, private property, foreign clothing styles, religious practices, and traditional Khmer culture.

Public schools, pagodas, mosques, churches, universities, shops and government buildings were shut or turned into prisons, stables and reeducation camps.

The life in Khmer Rouge

By early 1973, about 85 percent of Cambodian territory was in the hands of the Khmer Rouge

Everyone was deprived of their basic rights. People were not allowed to go outside their cooperative.

Discussions were not allowed, If three people gathered and talked, they could be accused of being enemies and arrested or executed.

People were forbidden to show even the slightest affection, humor or pity.

After arresting and killing thousands of soldiers, military officers and civil servants

Over the next 3 years, they executed hunfred of thousands of intellectuals;city residents; and minority people.

The most important prison in Cambodia, known as S-21, held approximately 14,000 prisoners while in operation. Only about 12 survived.