Cambodian Genocide
2/6/2019
Julian Lujan, Matthew Fiorito, Jose Nserko, Lucas Franceschini
/ Roby Block5
Summary
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- Lon Nol abandoned the neutrality stance of his predecessor, establishing close ties with the US and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. troops felt free to move into Cambodia to continue their struggle with the Viet Cong
- 750,000 Cambodians were killed from 1970-1974 by American B-52 bombers
- Heavy American bombardment and Lon Nol’s collaboration with America drove new recruits to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement.
Source(s)
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodia
World Response
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- The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia tribunal has been criticized for handing down only three convictions despite being operational for eleven years
- International aid from the US and other countries is often embezzled by bureaucrats
Source
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodia
The people involved
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- Pol Pot
- The Khmer Rouge
- people of Cambodia
- Prince Norodom Sihanouk (former ruler of Cambodia)
- The Vietnamese army
- https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/the-khmer-rouge
- http://tpocambodia.org/khmer-rouge-survivors/
Resistance
- People who question orders will be risking death
- The people called loved ones by their names and not "comrade"
- There would be a day where people would share memories with kids
- They were able to share memories and not call kids comrade
- The resistance was successful because these things weren't big resistances, but they also aren't aloud, but didn't get in trouble for it because it wasn't a big resistance.
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Source: https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/cases/cambodia/introduction/cambodia-1975
http://sea-globe.com/cambodia-khmer-rouge-resistance-cham-uprising/
Bystanders
- “The U.S. and UK offered financial and military support to the Khmer Rouge forces in exile, who had sworn opposition to Vietnam and communism.”
- This has created a peace agreement has finally been created
Bystanders
Source: http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodia
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- Farmers established by Pol Pot were suffering from lack of food and overwork
- Hundreds of thousands die of starvation
- Pol Pot's regime executed thousands
- Hundreds of thousands of middle class Cambodians tortured and executed
- 1.7 to 2 million Cambodians died in this genocide
Now
- Cambodia re establishing ties with the rest of the world.
- Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge fighters retreat to remote areas of the country
Source
Source
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/the-khmer-rouge
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodia
Background
- Lon Nol abandoned the neutrality stance of his predecessor, establishing close ties with the US and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. troops felt free to move into Cambodia to continue their struggle with the Viet Cong
- 750,000 Cambodians were killed from 1970-1974 by American B-52 bombers
- Heavy American bombardment and Lon Nol’s collaboration with America drove new recruits to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement.