International Response: http://books.google.com/books?id=pYptuRHDQPgC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=international+response+to+cambodian+genocide+children&source=bl&ots=l2EQfSDSEI&sig=4Z31Tchp2Q1HvJu27hmjBQAk9xE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sqamUcTBFKTmiwKEsYDoDg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=international%20response%20to%20cambodian%20genocide%20children&f=false
“When I was just nine years old the Communists took over the country,” Pond said. “My parents were executed and I was forced to watch my siblings crawl … to a death of starvation. It was very hard for me to feel so powerless and know that I could not help them.”
(Cover of book written about children's struggle during the genocide)
International Response:
President Carter first publicly denounced the Khmer Rouge in April 1978. Carter sent a message to an independent commission examining the atrocity reports in Oslo:
America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities.
(President Carter's response to the Cambodian Genocide)
Diary/Journal: "In Phnom Penh, among the first things I did was to visit all the places my father and I had frequented before the was, those first few happy years of my childhood. -Vaddey Ratner
International Response: "But in the first three years of KR rule, even the Americans most concerned about Cambodia--Twining, Quinn, and Becker among them--internalized the constraints of the day and the system. they knew that drawing attention to the slaughter in Cambodia would have reminded Americans of its past sins, reopened wounds that had not yet healed at home, and invited questions about what the United States planned to do to curb the terror..." -Samantha Power
SISOWATH DOUNG CHANTO Birth Place: Phnom Penh, Cambodia DOB: 02-13-70 Age: 25 Occupation: Graduate Student Major: Political Science Surviving Family Member(s): 1. Father deceased (executed by the Khmer Rouge) 2. Mother residing in Cambodia. 3. Three sisters. One is residing in Cambodia.
My father was one of the million victims who were killed by the Khmer Rouge genocide politics. Up to this today I cannot comprehend the reason for the execution of my father and other millions of my fellow country men. My father was not a man of politics nor was he a criminal by any means. As a far as I can remember, he was a family man like any other Cambodian men in the country. He was a loving and caring father. A great protector and provider for his family and for those worked in his shipping company. He was a patriotic man. He did not abandon Cambodia during the 1970-75 civil war because he wished to devoted his energy and resource for the reconstruction of the country after the war. Unfortunately, his patriotism was not greeted with gratitude but it was received by punishment then execution.
The brutality of his punishment was so extreme that even the executioner himself could not speak of it without shock. My mother got the chance to find the executioner in 1985 eight year after my father's execution. According to this Khmer Rouge cadre, named Met Chan, who was personally involved with the interrogation of my father described ways which he and his comrades punished my father.
From the time they took my father out of our hut, he was kicked, dragged and beaten all the way to the killing site. Before he was executed he was cuffed in chains along with three other men and was confined in a basement inside an abandoned temple. He went without food for several days because Khmer Rouge cadres knew that he was going to be killed anyway before they finally decided to take him to the grave. His face was swollen with bruises from the beating. His back and ribs were broken by the constant beating by the young Khmer Rouge Cadres. The beating was so severe that it paralyzed his speech and consciousness. By this time, he was just lying on the floor unable to move or ask for mercy. According to Met Chan, his last words were calling for his wife, son and daughter.
I guessed he was thinking about his family even though he was dying.
Two days after the interrogation, they took him to the killing ground. He was hit with a metal rod three times at the back of the head. Whether he died immediately from the blows was not mentioned by Met Chan. My Mother did not wish to know any more. My father Sisowath Doung Kara was executed on July 1978 just five months before the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and liberated it from the Khmer Rouge.
I am one of the many voices speaking out atrocity of the Khmer Rouge's genocide politics.
In the memory of those who endured and survived the Cambodian Holocaust.
International Response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GBig0qSVpo
Chapter Nine The Rights and Duties of the Individual
Article 12 Every citizen of Kampuchea enjoys full rights to a constantly improving material, spiritual, and cultural life.
Every citizen of Democratic Kampuchea is guaranteed a living. All workers are the masters of their factories. All peasants are the masters of the rice paddies and fields. All other labourers have the right to work. There is absolutely no unemployment in Democratic Kampuchea.
Article 13 There must be complete equality among all Kampuchean people in an equal, just, democratic, harmonious, and happy society within the great national solidarity for defending and building the country together.
Men and women are fully equal in every respect. Polygamy is prohibited.
Article 14 It is the duty of all to defend and build the country together in accordance with individual ability and potential.
International Response: Nixon and Kissinger escalate the bombing of Cambodia, Dec. 9, 1970 (declassified transcripts of telephone conversations) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/Box%2029,%20File%202,%20Kissinger%20%96%20President%20Dec%209,%201970%208,45%20pm%20%200.pdf
Primary source: I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. -Pol Pot
International Response: The United Nation Response:
Cambodia was one of the countries who ratified the Genocide Convention in 1951, but genocide charges were never brought against the Khmer Rouge regime. Neither the US nor its EU called attention to the atrocities as they were occurring. Israel became the first country to raise the issue of a potential genocide in Cambodia. In March, 1978, Britain's UN representative responded to popular pressure from the main churches of England by raising the subject before the UN commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), and called for the appointment of a special human rights rapporteur to investigate. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Syria teamed up to block even this rhetorical route, delaying consideration of Cambodian's human right. Three years after the genocide, no official UN body condemned the slaughter. In 1977 and 1978, the atrocity of Khmer Rouge were revealed on the UN. The KR responded by claiming that "British citizens enjoyed only the right to be slaves, thieves, prostitutes, or unemployed." On April 1978, the KR's Foreign Affairs Minister Ieng Sary wrote a letter to the UN denouncing the " propaganda machine of the imperialists, the expansionists, annextionist" who charged them with mass killing. He said, "There is no reason for the KR to reduce the population or to maintain it at its current level," he wrote, "since today's population of 8 million is well below the potential of the country, which needs more than 20 million."
Many scholars linked the genocide in Cambodia to the Holocaust in order to make the US and UN take action. In an April 1978 New York Time editorial entitled " Silence is Guilt," William Safire also referred to the Holocaust and asked why the world was doing nothing?
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The Cambodian Genocide happened because Pol Pot wanted to turn the whole country into a farming land and kill everyone else to get them out of the way.
Formerly the Tuol Svay Prey High School, the building of the complex were converted into a prison and interrogation center and renamed “Security Prison 21” (S-21). From 1975 to 1979, 17,000 peopole were registered and photographed, then imprisoned and tortured, before they were killed.
The torture system at Tuol Sleng was designed to make prisoners confess to whatever crimes they were charged with by their captors. Prisoners were routinely beaten and tortured in various ways including electric shock, searing hot metal instruments, and hanging. Other methods for generating confessions included pulling out fingernails while pouring alcohol on their wounds or holding prisoners’ heads under water.
When the Vietnamese Army invaded in 1979, the S-21 staff fled, leaving thousands of written and photographic records. Former prison staff say as many as 30,000 prisoners were held at the S-21 before the Khmer Rouge leadership was forced to flee. Out of all those imprisoned, there were only twelve known survivors.
Primary Source: "The Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement, founded in 1960, was considerably undermanned in its early days. The movement’s leader, Pol Pot, was educated in France and was an admirer of “Mao” (Chinese) communism – Pol Pot envisioned the creation of a “new” Cambodia based on the Maoist-Communist model. The aim of the Khmer Rouge was to deconstruct Cambodia back a primitive “Year Zero,” wherein all citizens would participate in rural work projects, and any Western innovations would be removed. Pol Pot brought in Chinese training tactics and Viet Cong support for his troops, and was soon successful in producing a formidable military force. In 1970, the Khmer Rouge went to civil war with the U.S. backed “Khmer Republic,” under lieutenant-general Lon Nol. Lon Nol’s government had assumed a pro-Western, anti-Communist stance, and demanded the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge guerillas were finally successful in deposing Lon Nol’s government in 1975. Under Pol Pot’s leadership, and within days of overthrowing the government, the Khmer Rouge embarked on an organized mission: they ruthlessly imposed an extremist program to reconstruct Cambodia on the communist model of Mao’s China. It was these extremist policies which led to the Cambodian genocide."
International Response: https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/united-nations-response
Works Cited: "Cambodian Genocide | World Without Genocide." Cambodian Genocide | World Without Genocide. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.
'I was a foreign journalist in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge marched in victorious in April 17 1975, their faces cold, a deadness in their eyes. They ordered the city evacuated. Everyone was to head for the countryside to join the revolution. They killed those who argued against leaving. Two million frightened people started walking out of the capital. The guerrilla soldiers even ordered the wounded - between five and ten thousand of them - out of overflowing hospitals where the casualties had been so heavy in the last days of the war that the floors were slick with blood. Most couldn't walk, so their relatives wheeled them out on their beds, with plasma and serum bags attached, and began rushing them along the streets. I watched many Cambodian friends being herded out of Phnom Penh. Most of them I never saw again. All of us felt like betrayers, like people who were protected and didn't do enough to save our friends. We felt shame. We still do.'
'Cambodian warriors have a battlefield custom, going back centuries, of cutting the livers from the bodies of their foes, then cooking and eating them. The belief is that this imparts strength and also provides a talisman of protection against being killed. Among pictures from Cambodia rejected by Associated Press were one of a smiling soldier eating the liver of a Khmer Rouge fighter he had killed, one of decapitated corpses being dragged along, and one of a human head being lowered by the hair into boiling water. Many of us are relieved to be protected from such images, but when we support a war we lack a full grasp of what we agree to.'
International Response: https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Works Cited: Primary Source- http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia3.html International Response-https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Primary Source:In the tragic recent history of Cambodia—a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge—no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) since 1962 and as prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), he has been widely blamed for trying to destroy Cambodian society. By implementing policies whose effects were genocidal, he oversaw the deaths of more than one million of his nation’s people.The political career of Saloth Sar, better known by his nom de guerre Pol Pot, forms a critical but largely inaccessible portion of twentieth-century Cambodian history. What we know about his life is sketchy: a comfortable childhood, three years of study in France, and a short career as a schoolteacher preceded several years—spent mostly in hiding—as a guerrilla and the commander of the victorious army in Cambodia’s civil war. His career reached a climax when he and his associates, coming to power, attempted to transform their country along lines more radical than any attempted by a modern regime. Driven into hiding in 1979 by invading Vietnamese forces, Pol Pot maintained his leadership of a Khmer Rouge guerrilla army in exile, remaining a power and a threat.In this political biography, David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian, and French, the author illuminates the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of postWorld War II events, providing a key to understanding this horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history. In this revised edition, Chandler provides new information on the state of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge following the death of Pol Pot in 1997.
International Response: http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
Works Cited: Primary Source- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show /433358.Brother_Number_One International Response http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
International Response: http://worldgenocides.wikispaces.com/World+Response+to+the+Cambodian+Genocide
Works Cited: Primary Source-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE - International Response:http://worldgenocides.wikispaces.com/World+Response+to+the+Cambodian+Genocide
Primary Source: He was 13 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. Separated from his family, forced into slave labor, beaten nearly to death for stealing rice for his pregnant sister, he saw the horrors firsthand.
His mother lost a daughter and four siblings; 30 years later she still searches for them, hoping they survived.
Chhang survived by eating whatever he could find. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, it took him months to walk home to his family. Eventually, he fled to safety in the United States.
"Food was ... more important than God," Chhang said. "I always wish to have a bowl of rice. And one good night's sleep. That's all I wanted. I would do anything for it."
International Response: https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Works Cited: Primary Source- http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/sbm.cambodia.chhang/ International Response- https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/
International Response: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwTyKwbS7WoC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=cambodian+genocide+international+response&source=bl&ots=Qaj4kfD-3s&sig=V-tsp7X7qfX9CbVyY9n3wMmmtiY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=87WuUdPVB4aWigKdg4HIAw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBTgy#v=onepage&q=cambodian%20genocide%20international%20response&f=false
International Response: Former leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge being tried by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal apologized to families of victims of the regime's atrocities, bringing a rare emotional note to an extended criminal trial dominated by the detailed recounting of names and old dates.
Khieu Samphan, the head of state of the 1970s communist regime, and Nuon Chea, the group's main ideologist, were responding to questions posed by the so-called civil parties, who are representing the victims' families at the trial.
Both men have issued expressions of regret before for the killings, but they have denied legal responsibility and insisted they served with the best interests of their country and its people in mind.
They have also not hesitated to cast blame on their former colleagues and other parties.
Their statements Thursday were notable chiefly for the context — they were responding directly to the family members who had testified in emotional detail to the manner in which they lost their loved ones to Khmer Rouge brutality.
Because prosecutors must try to prove the defendants bore responsibility for the actions, much of the testimony has sought to draw a legalistic line showing their knowledge through a chain of command. Thursday's testimony touched on the moral implications of one of the most shocking historical episodes of the 20th century.
"I feel extremely sorry for the disappearance and extremely brutal killing of your father," Khieu Samphan told Yim Roum Doul, claiming, however, that he did not know at the time about "the atrocities committed by the military commanders and leaders."
"I did not know the great suffering of our people," he said, adding that the perpetrators "must be brought to justice."
He said he joined the Khmer Rouge not to kill fellow Cambodians but with the "determination to protect our country and to develop our country."
"But unfortunately it turned out to be a complete disaster," he said, describing those responsible as "the most stupid persons on earth."
In testimony earlier this week, Khieu Samphan did not neglect to point the finger at other parties whom he believed contributed to the Cambodian holocaust.
Nuon Chea said in his testimony Thursday that he took "responsibility morally" for what occurred during the Khmer Rouge regime, explaining that "I feel remorseful for the crimes that were committed intentionally or unintentionally and whether or not I had known about it or not known about it."
Like Khieu Samphan, he offered condolences.
Nuon Chea, who testified from his cell by video because of poor health, has spoken of his regrets previously, in the 2010 documentary film "Enemies of the People."
"I have always said I made mistakes. I am regretful and I have remorse. I am sorry for our regime. I am sorry," Nuon Chea told Cambodian filmmaker Thet Sambath.
But he was also clear that the Khmer Rouge leaders had seen their primary duty as safeguarding the revolution and said suspected traitors were killed because they "were enemies of the people."
Primary source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJGG1uWn1M&list=PLDE52A6394A2F3F49 -Manny different interviews with Cambodians about the genocide and a documentary showing first hand accounts of the damage the genocide had on cambodia
international response- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCmj86VgC0
International Response: http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia2.html Under international pressure, Vietnam finally withdrew its occupying army from Cambodia. This decision had also been forced by economic sanctions on Cambodia (the US's doing), and by a cut-off in aid from Vietnam's own backer, the Soviet Union. The last troops left Cambodia in 1989, and its name was officially restored. In the 1978-1989 conflict between the two countries (and their behind-the-scenes international string-pullers) up to 65,000 had been killed, 14,000 of whom were civilians.
Primary Source: http://www.genocidewatch.org/cambodiaproject.html By Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch 16 February 2012
I, personally, who was in charge S-21 as the director, was responsible for the criminal mechanism and I am determined to take legal and moral responsibility for all the crimes committed at S-21. And, secondly, I, Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, was not in charge of all the security centres throughout the country, but I was a member of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and as such I still carry the moral weight of all the crimes perpetrated against the people and nation of Cambodia throughout that regime. I deserve whatever punishment the Cambodian people may mete out. When I am personally challenged before the victims, the many widows, the orphans - I accept that they condemn me. I bow before them so that they can see that I have acknowledged my crimes. It is unfortunate that some of the widows did not have the opportunity to come here.
America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities. -President Carter
Letter from Victim: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/11/08/arn-chorn-pond-survivor-cambodia-khmer-rouge-lends-his-life-story-national-book-award-nominated-novel-for-young-adults/Qn5aHiUTWIUaQ0481TxTOI/story.html
International Response: http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.html
Works Cited: http://www.learningace.com/doc/1463095/80fb15a6ccb478c2c65d9934b7da303a/connecting-the-broken-pieces-after-the-cambodian-genocide-legacy-as-memory-of-a-nation
“When I was just nine years old the Communists took over the country,” Pond said. “My parents were executed and I was forced to watch my siblings crawl … to a death of starvation. It was very hard for me to feel so powerless and know that I could not help them.”
While in the camps, soldiers forced Pond to partake in some of the murders.
“Sometimes they would force me to help them out,” Pond said. “I was a prisoner, and they could force me to push others into the graves. If I showed any emotion with the victims I would have been killed.”
Pond said his love for traditional Cambodian music, specifically the flute, helped him through his difficult experiences. He and four other prisoners in the camp started a music group; only two members of that group are alive today.
“Music got me through,” Pond said. “Even today, it still helps me to heal.”
In 1980, after living several months alone in the Cambodian jungle, Pond was rescued and adopted by Reverend Peter L. Pond who brought him back to New Hampshire.
“I felt very lucky, but very scared at the same time,” Pond said. “It seemed as though no one in the United States understood me or where I came from.”
After coming to the U.S., Pond said he felt anger, depression, resentment and even suicidal at times. His adopted father encouraged him to speak out and share his story to help deal with his feelings.
“I didn’t know what it meant to be heard,” Pond said. “I never thought that white Americans would care about me, but I was wrong.”
He started speaking at local churches and today his voice has been heard by Amnesty International groups, the United Nations and even former President Jimmy Carter.
After he began to share his experience, Pond stepped into a new role: human rights activist. He is the recipient of many international humanitarian awards and founder of several organizations, including Children of War, Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development and Peace Makers.
“I choose to sing and to start different organizations,” Pond said. “It is not easy to share my story, but it is part of my healing process. I love the work that I do now because it saves lives and inspires others. This work allows me live.”
DSLC chair Guadalupe Quintana said Pond’s talk was a perfect way to kick off events for the conference because his talk will inspire others.
“His story is very capturing and embodies everything that DSLC represents,” she said.
Quintana said DSLC represents sharing stories that would otherwise go unheard and learning of differences that would often go unnoticed.
Pond expressed the importance of embracing one’s roots and one’s own unique stories.
“It is our life and our story,” Pond said. “Don’t deny your differences or your stories, because then you will be denying your culture.”
Pond ended his talk by encouraging the members of the audience to go out in the community and share their voices for social change.
“Do not underestimate one person,” Pond said. “Everyone has their own story to share. Everyone has their own pain. Do not spend time comparing pain, just live united. One by one you are the angel that the world needs. Go fly and be that angel.”
Work Cited: http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/mobile/news/cambodian-genocide-survivor-speaks-at-dslc-1.2823420
Lily Giedd Period 2 Cambodian genocide-Impact/Legacy
Pictures~ -http://www.potomacschool.org/faculty/okoth/GSII/Spring06web/camwebpage-final.htm ( Image at the bottom ) http://cambodianschaffergenocide.weebly.com/international-community.html -http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
Primary source ~ "How does one come to grips with insanity? They asked me what I thought the Genocide meant, looking for an answer from an outsider. I had no answer. Many of them wanted revenge and wished to see the remaining members of The Organization punished. But few of them wanted to take it further. Too many people were implicated—in one way or another, the whole country, including Hun Sen, present leader of Cambodia. Some of them were ready to accept that the killers had also been victims." - Vann Nath http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/vann-nath.html
International response~ After their victory, the KR did everything they could to put a veil over the country. Their were however a few sources of information concerning Democratic Kampuchea that was available to the outside world. A few people in Congress demanded that the US examined what was happening in Cambodia, Stephen Solarz, a Democrat NY, linked Khmer Rouge Atrocity to the Holocaust. He heard account that shocked him such as the KR murder of people who wore glasses. He joined forces with Senator Claiborne Pell and together they were able generate interest of Cambodian affairs. They had hearing on Capital Hill which focused solely on Cambodian Atrocity. https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
A Physician's Description of His Prison Camp: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1978cambodia.asp
Comments and clarifications submitted on 17 September 1996 by the Government of Cambodia on the report of the Secretary-General on the human rights situation in Cambodia: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/51/plenary/a51-453add1.htm
International response: America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities. https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Neil Villadolid Period 2 Cambodian Genocide- Lasting Affects Legacy
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International Response- "A few leftists were so eager to see an egalitarian band of Communist revolutionaries taking control of yet another Southeast Asian state that they paid little attention to reports of terror. But many who in fact cared about the welfare of Cambodians were relieved that the corrupt, abusive Lon Nol had been deposed. Most had learned to doubt any claim that emerged from a U.S. government source. But above all, politics and recent history aside, they possessed a natural, human incapacity to take their imaginations where the refugees demanded they go" -Power
Primary Source: Under threat of death, Cambodians nationwide were forced from their hometowns and villages. The ill, disabled, old and young who were incapable of making the journey to the collectivized farms and labor camps were killed on the spot. People who refused to leave were killed, along with any who appeared to be in opposition to the new regime. The people from entire cities were forcibly evacuated to the countryside. All political and civil rights of the citizen were abolished. Children were taken from their parents and placed in separate forced labor camps. Factories, schools, universities, hospitals, and all other private institutions were shut down; all their former owners and employees were murdered, along with their extended families. Religion was also banned: leading Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries were killed, and temples and churches were burned.
International Response: April 30, 1994 "The US Congress passes the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act, which states “it is the policy of the United States to support efforts to bring to justice members of the Khmer Rouge for their crimes against humanity committed in Cambodia between April 17, 1975, and January 7, 1979.”
Works Cited: http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide http://www.d.dccam.org/Archives/Chronology/Chronology.htm
Shauna Kohanchi
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Primary Source Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=Qi2TcA8P0QE&nomobile=1
Primary Source Pictures
http://www.potomacschool.org/faculty/okoth/GSII/Spring06web/camwebpage-final.htm
Image 1 Skulls of children killed
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International Response
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Alanna Price
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http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/khmer-rouge-solid-case-or-fairytale
http://convozine.com/worldview/18680
http://www.visualsoc.net/archives/997
Primary Source Survivor Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH3D1X5_CGg
International Response:
http://books.google.com/books?id=pYptuRHDQPgC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=international+response+to+cambodian+genocide+children&source=bl&ots=l2EQfSDSEI&sig=4Z31Tchp2Q1HvJu27hmjBQAk9xE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sqamUcTBFKTmiwKEsYDoDg&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=international%20response%20to%20cambodian%20genocide%20children&f=false
Andrew Kahn
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Impact on children
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“When I was just nine years old the Communists took over the country,” Pond said. “My parents were executed and I was forced to watch my siblings crawl … to a death of starvation. It was very hard for me to feel so powerless and know that I could not help them.”
Source:
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/cambodian-genocide-survivor-speaks-at-dslc-1.2823420#.UaavDEC1Fos
International Involvement: http://cybercambodia.com/dachs/stories/soy.html
Cheyenne Zazula
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Impact on children in the Cambodian Genocide
First Person Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pran-cambodia.html
(Book on children struggles during the Cambodian Genocide)
Pictures from Genocide:
1. http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1G1TSND_ENUS421&q=children+of+the+cambodian+genocide&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=0sqmUeu2CsmzigLysYCYBw&biw=1366&bih=563&sei=1MqmUZWKEIfhiwKnm4CACQ#facrc=_&imgrc=qW7LoP-NKEm0CM%3A%3BzmcVE_ARP9kVvM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fs3.amazonaws.com%252Fconvo-production%252Fimages%252F18896%252Fhuge.jpg%253F1312913869%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fconvozine.com%252Fworldview%252F18680%3B600%3B400
(Children in the Cambodian Army)
2. http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1G1TSND_ENUS421&q=children+of+the+cambodian+genocide&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=0sqmUeu2CsmzigLysYCYBw&biw=1366&bih=563&sei=1MqmUZWKEIfhiwKnm4CACQ#um=1&rlz=1G1TSND_ENUS421&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=dead+children+in+the+cambodian+genocide&oq=dead+children+in+the+cambodian+genocide&gs_l=img.3...30525.36217.2.36389.39.32.0.0.0.0.274.2690.27j3j2.32.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.OwEKD7Hm_T0&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&fp=93abdb297c8b6c08&biw=1366&bih=563&facrc=_&imgrc=roSnpeuRNAbXtM%3A%3Bzhedu_sX2sVzfM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.visualsoc.net%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2010%252F04%252FAMAGNUMIG_103115659031.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.visualsoc.net%252Farchives%252F997%3B687%3B1024
(Men of the Cambodian Army carrying away dead children)
3. http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1G1TSND_ENUS421&q=children+of+the+cambodian+genocide&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=0sqmUeu2CsmzigLysYCYBw&biw=1366&bih=563&sei=1MqmUZWKEIfhiwKnm4CACQ#um=1&rlz=1G1TSND_ENUS421&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=children+of+cambodia%27s+killing+fields&oq=children+of+camb&gs_l=img.3.1.0j0i24l5.74568.87373.4.89747.16.10.0.3.3.0.172.1017.7j3.10.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.s4Inf9O62k0&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&fp=93abdb297c8b6c08&biw=1366&bih=563&facrc=_&imgrc=brq1Mr7DfUYZDM%3A%3B9fHbcpnY0EVmHM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmaic.jmu.edu%252Fjournal%252F12.1%252FbookReview%252Fwatts%252FWattsImg1Web.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmaic.jmu.edu%252Fjournal%252F12.1%252FbookReview%252Fwatts%252Fwatts.htm%3B300%3B461
(Cover of book written about children's struggle during the genocide)
International Response:
President Carter first publicly denounced the Khmer Rouge in April 1978. Carter sent a message to an independent commission examining the atrocity reports in Oslo:
America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities.
(President Carter's response to the Cambodian Genocide)
Jacob Fisher
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Impact On Children
Pictures:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_76xUgRgjZYM/TIqhckKjpwI/AAAAAAAARC4/SXlIsr0aDSI/s1600/Phnom+Penh+1975.jpg
http://www.cambodianrefugees.info/images/New%20Folder/Traged3.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8up7h6T0Kzc/TG6rhyMXpUI/AAAAAAAASW8/2EWOkWv09eQ/s1600/Cambodian+refugee+children.jpg
Diary/Journal:
"In Phnom Penh, among the first things I did was to visit all the places my father and I had frequented before the was, those first few happy years of my childhood.
-Vaddey Ratner
International Response:
"But in the first three years of KR rule, even the Americans most concerned about Cambodia--Twining, Quinn,
and Becker among them--internalized the constraints of the day and the system. they knew that drawing attention to the slaughter in Cambodia would have reminded Americans of its past sins, reopened wounds that had not yet healed at home, and invited questions about what the United States planned to do to curb the terror..."
-Samantha Power
Pictures
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2.http://www.cambodianrefugees.info/images/New%20Folder/Traged3.jpg
3.http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/Tuol%20Sleng%20photo.jpg
First Person Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_doWZO2S0&feature=player_embedded
International Response
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
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Bruce Man-Son-Hing
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Impact On Children
Pictures
1.http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/08/opinion/08homefires2/08homefires2-custom1.jpg
2.http://www.cambodianrefugees.info/images/New%20Folder/Traged3.jpg
3.http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/Tuol%20Sleng%20photo.jpg
First Person Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_doWZO2S0&feature=player_embedded
International Response
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Ally Freed
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Impact on Children
Primary Source:
http://cybercambodia.com/dachs/stories.html
SISOWATH DOUNG CHANTO
Birth Place: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
DOB: 02-13-70
Age: 25
Occupation: Graduate Student
Major: Political Science
Surviving Family Member(s):
1. Father deceased (executed by the Khmer Rouge)
2. Mother residing in Cambodia.
3. Three sisters. One is residing in Cambodia.
My father was one of the million victims who were killed by the Khmer Rouge genocide politics. Up to this today I cannot comprehend the reason for the execution of my father and other millions of my fellow country men. My father was not a man of politics nor was he a criminal by any means. As a far as I can remember, he was a family man like any other Cambodian men in the country. He was a loving and caring father. A great protector and provider for his family and for those worked in his shipping company. He was a patriotic man. He did not abandon Cambodia during the 1970-75 civil war because he wished to devoted his energy and resource for the reconstruction of the country after the war. Unfortunately, his patriotism was not greeted with gratitude but it was received by punishment then execution.
The brutality of his punishment was so extreme that even the executioner himself could not speak of it without shock. My mother got the chance to find the executioner in 1985 eight year after my father's execution. According to this Khmer Rouge cadre, named Met Chan, who was personally involved with the interrogation of my father described ways which he and his comrades punished my father.
From the time they took my father out of our hut, he was kicked, dragged and beaten all the way to the killing site. Before he was executed he was cuffed in chains along with three other men and was confined in a basement inside an abandoned temple. He went without food for several days because Khmer Rouge cadres knew that he was going to be killed anyway before they finally decided to take him to the grave. His face was swollen with bruises from the beating. His back and ribs were broken by the constant beating by the young Khmer Rouge Cadres. The beating was so severe that it paralyzed his speech and consciousness. By this time, he was just lying on the floor unable to move or ask for mercy. According to Met Chan, his last words were calling for his wife, son and daughter.
I guessed he was thinking about his family even though he was dying.
Two days after the interrogation, they took him to the killing ground. He was hit with a metal rod three times at the back of the head. Whether he died immediately from the blows was not mentioned by Met Chan. My Mother did not wish to know any more. My father Sisowath Doung Kara was executed on July 1978 just five months before the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and liberated it from the Khmer Rouge.
I am one of the many voices speaking out atrocity of the Khmer Rouge's genocide politics.
In the memory of those who endured and survived the Cambodian Holocaust.
International Response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GBig0qSVpo
Pictures:
http://www.sptimes.com/News/051000/photos/nie-CAMBODIA.jpg
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/khmer-rouge.jpg
http://www.unicef.org.nz/store/images/aboutus2.jpg
jack korchek
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impact on children
primary source: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pH3D1X5_CGg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpH3D1X5_CGg
pictures:
1. http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2010/08/cambodia-genocide-story.html
2. http://www.visualsoc.net/archives/997
3. http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
international response:
http://www.ird.org/our-work/programs/child-survival
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Impact on Children
Picture 1:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/convo-production/images/18896/huge.jpg?1312913869
Picture 2:
http://histclo.com/imagef/date/2009/11/s21-01s.jpg
Picture 3:
http://www.rnw.nl/data/files/imagecache/must_carry/images/lead/cambodia%20genocide.jpg
Diary:
http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/stories/ronnieyimsut.html
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Ilay Soffer
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Political Motives
Pictures:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cambodian-Victims.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Khmer-Rouge-Killing-Fields.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/amanpour.pol.pot/
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Brooke Levine
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Political Motives
Pictures:
1.http://www.dosomething.org/files/styles/blog_landscape/public/pictures/actionguide/cambodian%20genocide3.jpg?itok=HrBymH23
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H_4_ill_639759_cambodia-phnom_penh-1979-61.jpg
3. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/mass-grave.jpg
Primary Source:
https://sites.google.com/site/insidethecambodiansgenocide/vi-interview--in-written-script/interview-transcript--part-ii
International Primary Source:
http://www.unicef.org/cambodia/overview.html
Kelly Clark
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Impact on Children
Pictures:
http://aldersledge.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
http://revelation.web.net/node/435
http://unspokengenocide.blogspot.com/
Primary Source:
http://resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=161302&sid=1363677
International Response:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?lng=en&id=46648
June Assawamahakun
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Political Motives
Pictures:
http://cambodiaunderthekhmerrouge11840.weebly.com/uploads/6/7/8/0/6780921/188125236.jpg?1352120405
http://www.turgutbalya.com/FileUpload/ks219195/File/parti_kongresi_kampuchea.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oIAhQMTG-dU/S_fo4yybEaI/AAAAAAAAE-E/Lptuosku7w8/s1600/khmer-rouge-killings-history-pictures-rare-unseen-009.jpg
Primary Source: http://www.d.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/DK_Policy/DK_Policy_DK_Constitution.htm
Chapter Nine
The Rights and Duties of the Individual
Article 12 Every citizen of Kampuchea enjoys full rights to a constantly improving material, spiritual, and cultural life.
Every citizen of Democratic Kampuchea is guaranteed a living.
All workers are the masters of their factories.
All peasants are the masters of the rice paddies and fields.
All other labourers have the right to work.
There is absolutely no unemployment in Democratic Kampuchea.
Article 13 There must be complete equality among all Kampuchean people in an equal, just, democratic, harmonious, and happy society within the great national solidarity for defending and building the country together.
Men and women are fully equal in every respect.
Polygamy is prohibited.
Article 14 It is the duty of all to defend and build the country together in accordance with individual ability and potential.
International Response: Nixon and Kissinger escalate the bombing of Cambodia, Dec. 9, 1970 (declassified transcripts of telephone conversations)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/Box%2029,%20File%202,%20Kissinger%20%96%20President%20Dec%209,%201970%208,45%20pm%20%200.pdf
Andrew Fox
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Impact on Children
Pictures:
http://static3.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/800-1/photos/1316748013-tuol-sleng--genocide-museum_841641.jpg
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-BE046044.jpg?size=67&uid=f0fc5398-fd33-48e2-983c-ab27cee95efb
http://genocidewatch.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Cambodian-Genocide-Project.jpg
Primary Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6HH6JPI4Dw
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/united-nations-response
Lauren Dascalo
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Cambodian Genocide impact on children
Pictures:
http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/gallery.html
article about:
http://www.cambcomm.org.uk/holocaust.html
first person response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e9z06aXBkY
pictures:
1. skulls
2. children
3. torture
4. people involved
5. suffrage
Chase KInsley
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cambodian genocide children
picutres:http://www.historywiz.com/massgraves.htm
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1958777/victims-of-cambodian-
genocidehttp://khmerization.blogspot.com/2011/04/cambodian-genocide-17th-april-1975.html
Primary source:http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/Cambodia_12_02_16_Compilation_of_Statements_of_Apology_Made_by_KAING_Guek_Eav_alias_Duch_During_the_Proceedings.pdf
International response
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.html
Nica Ramy
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Political motives
PICTURES::: http://www.interestingfacts.org/facts-images/khmer_rouge2.jpg
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-U1958777.jpg?size=67&uid=34a3c8cb-1370-4e8d-a36c-3dc7dc531e65
http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/1.jpg
PRIMARY SOURCE:::
www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia1.html
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE::
sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/united-nations-response
Shima Esmaeili
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Impact On Children
PICTURES: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8up7h6T0Kzc/TG6rhyMXpUI/AAAAAAAASW8/2EWOkWv09eQ/s1600/Cambodian+refugee+children.jpg
http://www.visualsoc.net/archives/997
http://girlsofwisdom.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/cambodia_genocide1.jpg
PRIMARY SOURCE-Victim Interview :
http://andybrouwer.co.uk/lung.html
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Jordan Eisner
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Political Motives
Pictures/quotes:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cambodian-Victims.jpg
http://www.interestingfacts.org/facts-images/khmer_rouge2.jpg
Primary source:
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. -Pol Pot
International Response:
The United Nation Response:
Cambodia was one of the countries who ratified the Genocide Convention in 1951, but genocide charges were never brought against the Khmer Rouge regime. Neither the US nor its EU called attention to the atrocities as they were occurring. Israel became the first country to raise the issue of a potential genocide in Cambodia. In March, 1978, Britain's UN representative responded to popular pressure from the main churches of England by raising the subject before the UN commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), and called for the appointment of a special human rights rapporteur to investigate. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Syria teamed up to block even this rhetorical route, delaying consideration of Cambodian's human right. Three years after the genocide, no official UN body condemned the slaughter.
In 1977 and 1978, the atrocity of Khmer Rouge were revealed on the UN. The KR responded by claiming that "British citizens enjoyed only the right to be slaves, thieves, prostitutes, or unemployed." On April 1978, the KR's Foreign Affairs Minister Ieng Sary wrote a letter to the UN denouncing the " propaganda machine of the imperialists, the expansionists, annextionist" who charged them with mass killing. He said, "There is no reason for the KR to reduce the population or to maintain it at its current level," he wrote, "since today's population of 8 million is well below the potential of the country, which needs more than 20 million."
Many scholars linked the genocide in Cambodia to the Holocaust in order to make the US and UN take action. In an April 1978 New York Time editorial entitled " Silence is Guilt," William Safire also referred to the Holocaust and asked why the world was doing nothing?
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Political Motive
Primary Source: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm
International Response: https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Pictures:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cambodian+genocide&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R_irUcrxGMiZiQLjmYCwDA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&oq=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&gs_l=img.3...2463.4968.0.5053.23.15.3.5.5.1.138.1094.11j3.14.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.gfJdj79NlWE&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&fp=4f75035666aabd60&biw=1394&bih=780&facrc=_&imgrc=DxH7fFUT98dXuM%3A%3BB-iYL7CPxQ7rRM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faipr.files.wordpress.com%252F2011%252F08%252Fkhmer-rouge.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faipr.wordpress.com%252Ftag%252Ftransitional-justice%252F%3B433%3B314
http://www.google.com/search?q=cambodian+genocide&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R_irUcrxGMiZiQLjmYCwDA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&oq=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&gs_l=img.3...2463.4968.0.5053.23.15.3.5.5.1.138.1094.11j3.14.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.gfJdj79NlWE&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&fp=4f75035666aabd60&biw=1394&bih=780&facrc=_&imgrc=-E1zL0lk1X0WeM%3A%3BlDPJVxKxx5KJRM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.historyplace.com%252Fworldhistory%252Fgenocide%252Fmass-grave.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.historyplace.com%252Fworldhistory%252Fgenocide%252Fpol-pot.htm%3B597%3B404
http://www.google.com/search?q=cambodian+genocide&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R_irUcrxGMiZiQLjmYCwDA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&oq=cambodian+genocide+political+motive&gs_l=img.3...2463.4968.0.5053.23.15.3.5.5.1.138.1094.11j3.14.0...0.0...1c.1.15.img.gfJdj79NlWE&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&fp=4f75035666aabd60&biw=1394&bih=780&facrc=_&imgrc=KKfLxHM8lMgFlM%3A%3Bg9UYyNIpzzuHDM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%252F~amamendo%252Fambers%252520first%252520website%252FImages%252Fsoldiers4.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%252F~amamendo%252FKhmerRouge.html%3B450%3B230
Skyler Blatt
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Political Motives
Images:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130314013423-cambodia-khmer-rouge-guerillas-horizontal-gallery.jpg
http://www.historywiz.com/images/cambodia/khjmerrouge.gif
https://d5ed56c6-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/insidethecambodiansgenocide/v-cambodian-s-genocide/Pol%20Pot.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cpGGV5cE7OITWnSttEI7szVL1jsp92ujgGDWtm-fTRwi6pKC4RT0aqWm4OmZaFdn9x9N2T6MAjK5qWf1deP3N2wmBqjP9KcmYe6hEF-dXhawkV1CXH-am9lI0ffPsqCPyLwEWYEcdb4_-GJhVOu_fhZx7WzaJi_2epkNNrDm4IczK95tBMSITYpMrPBB7A_hCNfI7AwzeVPKTxld_Dv54xIg5jHia41D-2dtlDwUjq4H9St0hTJZW6wJEVDQBPExPN_YzUV&attredirects=0
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAUcRuLjUM
International Response:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mary-creagh/holocaust-memorial-day-an-international-response_b_1233688.html
Shane Fenske
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Mr.Edsall
History
6/2/2013
Pictures:
https://sites.google.com/site/insidethecambodiansgenocide/v-cambodian-s-genocide/Pol%20Pot.jpg?attredirects=0
Primary source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-428046/My-son-went-Cambodia--returned.html
international Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Noah Perry
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Political Movement
Pics:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/genocides/cambodia/CambodiaVictims.jpg
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/gGDbZlax0pM/mqdefault.jpg
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/images/figure3.jpg
Primary Source: (Pol Pot's Speech)
http://archive.org/stream/SpeechMadeByComradePolPotSecretaryOfTheCentralCommitteeOfThe/Chinakhmer#page/n3/mode/2up
International Response: (Nixon Speech)
https://sites.google.com/site/insidethecambodiansgenocide/nixon-s-cambodian-incursion-speech
Alex Velazquez
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Motives
Pictures:
http://pictures.historicimages.net/pictures/_5/4374/4373248.jpg
http://www2.2space.net/images/upl_news/110119/330853/full/a-delegate-of-vietnam%26%2339%3Bs-communist-party-raises-his-membership.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/H_4_ill_639759_cambodia-phnom_penh-1979-61.jpg/300px-H_4_ill_639759_cambodia-phnom_penh-1979-61.jpg
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Primary Source:
A Personal Interview with POL POT
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=3qhgmfnRJio&list=PLDE52A6394A2F3F49
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International Response:
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.html
(15th - 18th Paragraphs)
Jordan Schore
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Political Motives
Primary Source:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1-SI8RF6wDE
Pictures:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/convo-production/images/18896/huge.jpg?1312913869
International response:
http://www.eccc.gov.kh/en
Sam Vizvary
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Political Motives
Primary Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a2_doWZO2S0
Pictures: http://www.marmatt.com/conspiracy/art/cambodia-genocide-01.jpg
http://genocide-in-cambodia-final-exam.wikispaces.com/file/view/SKULLS.jpg/114175989/451x285/SKULLS.jpg
http://www.historywiz.com/images/cambodia/khjmerrouge.gif
International Respondse: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/48669080/THE-CAMBODIAN-GENOCIDE-AND-INTERNATIONAL-LAW
Mark Schweitzer
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Political Motives
Primary Source -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2TcA8P0QE
Pictures -
1. http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cambodian-genocide-under-Pol-Pot.jpg
2. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/810vxjSjAzL._SL1480_.jpg
3. http://www.tf1international.com/images/ME3-Image.jpg
International Response -
http://www.d.dccam.org/Archives/Chronology/Chronology.htm
Vanessa Manfredi
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POLITICAL MOTIVES
The Cambodian Genocide happened because Pol Pot wanted to turn the whole country into a farming land and kill everyone else to get them out of the way.
PICTURES:
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/wek/wek-bones.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cambodian-Victims.jpg
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo353/sleepinggatekeepers/HOLLYWOOD/khmer-rouge.jpg
PRIMARY SOURCE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e9z06aXBkY
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCmj86VgC0
Jordan Carvel
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Methods in the Cambodian Genocide
Pictures:
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http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/3/24745.jpg
Primary Source (1:56-2:30):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0146422/Last_Word_Vann_Nath_Eugene_Nida_Betty_Skelton_Len_Ganley_Ray_Fisher/
International Response:
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB193/HAK-11-26-75.pdf
Max von Braun
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Genocide Methods:
Pictures:
http://ci403cambodiangenocide.weebly.com/number-of-deaths.html
ci403cambodiangenocide.weebly.com/number-of-deaths.html
http://segerstromworldhistory.blogspot.com/2012/06/theres-light-at-end-of-tunnel-cambodian.html
Tuol Sleng Prison
Formerly the Tuol Svay Prey High School, the building of the complex were converted into a prison and interrogation center and renamed “Security Prison 21” (S-21). From 1975 to 1979, 17,000 peopole were registered and photographed, then imprisoned and tortured, before they were killed.
The torture system at Tuol Sleng was designed to make prisoners confess to whatever crimes they were charged with by their captors. Prisoners were routinely beaten and tortured in various ways including electric shock, searing hot metal instruments, and hanging. Other methods for generating confessions included pulling out fingernails while pouring alcohol on their wounds or holding prisoners’ heads under water.
When the Vietnamese Army invaded in 1979, the S-21 staff fled, leaving thousands of written and photographic records. Former prison staff say as many as 30,000 prisoners were held at the S-21 before the Khmer Rouge leadership was forced to flee. Out of all those imprisoned, there were only twelve known survivors.
Anastas Beribak
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methods:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y8BEMkcr798/S7OdWOIEwbI/AAAAAAAAAIA/iuo45HJlf4w/s1600/armenian-genocide-02-jpg.jpg
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Primary source(journal)http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/amanpour.pol.pot/
International response:http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?lng=en&id=46648
Casey Hynes
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Political Motives
Photos:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hBqdPD_7M_Y/SmFTeT08t6I/AAAAAAAADrQ/fnVtQfp1r9A/s800/S-21_0196.jpg
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Katyń,_ekshumacja_ofiar.jpg/220px-Katyń,_ekshumacja_ofiar.jpg
Primary Source:
"The Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement, founded in 1960, was considerably undermanned in its early days. The movement’s leader, Pol Pot, was educated in France and was an admirer of “Mao” (Chinese) communism – Pol Pot envisioned the creation of a “new” Cambodia based on the Maoist-Communist model. The aim of the Khmer Rouge was to deconstruct Cambodia back a primitive “Year Zero,” wherein all citizens would participate in rural work projects, and any Western innovations would be removed. Pol Pot brought in Chinese training tactics and Viet Cong support for his troops, and was soon successful in producing a formidable military force. In 1970, the Khmer Rouge went to civil war with the U.S. backed “Khmer Republic,” under lieutenant-general Lon Nol. Lon Nol’s government had assumed a pro-Western, anti-Communist stance, and demanded the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge guerillas were finally successful in deposing Lon Nol’s government in 1975. Under Pol Pot’s leadership, and within days of overthrowing the government, the Khmer Rouge embarked on an organized mission: they ruthlessly imposed an extremist program to reconstruct Cambodia on the communist model of Mao’s China. It was these extremist policies which led to the Cambodian genocide."
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/united-nations-response
Works Cited:
"Cambodian Genocide | World Without Genocide." Cambodian Genocide | World Without Genocide. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.
Destiny De Alba
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Cambodian Methods
Pictures:
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/xgenopicts/cambodia-portrait.jpg
http://cybercambodia.com/dachs/killing-field/images/kum-son2.jpg
http://www.simonward.com/build/large/asia/cambodiaKF/torture1.jpg
Primary Source:
'I was a foreign journalist in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge marched in victorious in April 17 1975, their faces cold, a deadness in their eyes. They ordered the city evacuated. Everyone was to head for the countryside to join the revolution. They killed those who argued against leaving. Two million frightened people started walking out of the capital. The guerrilla soldiers even ordered the wounded - between five and ten thousand of them - out of overflowing hospitals where the casualties had been so heavy in the last days of the war that the floors were slick with blood. Most couldn't walk, so their relatives wheeled them out on their beds, with plasma and serum bags attached, and began rushing them along the streets. I watched many Cambodian friends being herded out of Phnom Penh. Most of them I never saw again. All of us felt like betrayers, like people who were protected and didn't do enough to save our friends. We felt shame. We still do.'
'Cambodian warriors have a battlefield custom, going back centuries, of cutting the livers from the bodies of their foes, then cooking and eating them. The belief is that this imparts strength and also provides a talisman of protection against being killed. Among pictures from Cambodia rejected by Associated Press were one of a smiling soldier eating the liver of a Khmer Rouge fighter he had killed, one of decapitated corpses being dragged along, and one of a human head being lowered by the hair into boiling water. Many of us are relieved to be protected from such images, but when we support a war we lack a full grasp of what we agree to.'
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Works Cited:
Primary Source- http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia3.html
International Response-https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Andrew Fox
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Political Motives
Pictures:
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http://www.cambcomm.org.uk/images/skulls.jpg
Primary Source:In the tragic recent history of Cambodia—a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge—no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) since 1962 and as prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), he has been widely blamed for trying to destroy Cambodian society. By implementing policies whose effects were genocidal, he oversaw the deaths of more than one million of his nation’s people.The political career of Saloth Sar, better known by his nom de guerre Pol Pot, forms a critical but largely inaccessible portion of twentieth-century Cambodian history. What we know about his life is sketchy: a comfortable childhood, three years of study in France, and a short career as a schoolteacher preceded several years—spent mostly in hiding—as a guerrilla and the commander of the victorious army in Cambodia’s civil war. His career reached a climax when he and his associates, coming to power, attempted to transform their country along lines more radical than any attempted by a modern regime. Driven into hiding in 1979 by invading Vietnamese forces, Pol Pot maintained his leadership of a Khmer Rouge guerrilla army in exile, remaining a power and a threat.In this political biography, David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian, and French, the author illuminates the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of postWorld War II events, providing a key to understanding this horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history. In this revised edition, Chandler provides new information on the state of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge following the death of Pol Pot in 1997.
International Response:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
Works Cited:
Primary Source- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show /433358.Brother_Number_One International Response http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
Andrew Fox
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Cambodian Methods
Pictures:
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http://www.downtheroad.org/Asia/imagesBBB/Cambodia_picturesb/DSC00071.JPG
Primary Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE
International Response:
http://worldgenocides.wikispaces.com/World+Response+to+the+Cambodian+Genocide
Works Cited: Primary Source-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE - International Response:http://worldgenocides.wikispaces.com/World+Response+to+the+Cambodian+Genocide
Daniel Hirsch
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cambodian methods
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Primary source:
http://resources.primarysouce.org/content_mobile.php?pid=161302
International Response:
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/united-nations-response
Julie Selivanov
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Cambodian Genocide/methods of killing
http://www.downtheroad.org/Asia/imagesBBB/Cambodia_picturesb/DSC00086b.JPG
http://dobbs.foreignpolicy.com/files/dobbs1_picnik.jpg
http://dobbs.foreignpolicy.com/files/dobbs1_picnik.jpg
Primary Source: He was 13 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. Separated from his family, forced into slave labor, beaten nearly to death for stealing rice for his pregnant sister, he saw the horrors firsthand.
His mother lost a daughter and four siblings; 30 years later she still searches for them, hoping they survived.
Chhang survived by eating whatever he could find. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, it took him months to walk home to his family. Eventually, he fled to safety in the United States.
"Food was ... more important than God," Chhang said. "I always wish to have a bowl of rice. And one good night's sleep. That's all I wanted. I would do anything for it."
International Response: https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Works Cited:
Primary Source- http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/sbm.cambodia.chhang/
International Response- https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/
Skyler Blatt
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Methods
Images:
http://www.dosomething.org/files/styles/blog_landscape/public/pictures/actionguide/cambodian%20genocide3.jpg?itok=HrBymH23
http://www.downtheroad.org/Asia/imagesBBB/Cambodia_picturesb/DSC00086b.JPG
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/mass-grave.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6HH6JPI4Dw
International Response:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwTyKwbS7WoC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=cambodian+genocide+international+response&source=bl&ots=Qaj4kfD-3s&sig=V-tsp7X7qfX9CbVyY9n3wMmmtiY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=87WuUdPVB4aWigKdg4HIAw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBTgy#v=onepage&q=cambodian%20genocide%20international%20response&f=false
Aren Barnes
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Methods During The Cambodian Genocide
Images:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cambodia-killing-fields.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/16/1234812602723/khmer2.jpg
Primary Source:
ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2TcA8P0QE
International Response:
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.html
Guyler Levy
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Methods
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhgmfnRJio
Pictures:
http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/gallery.html
International Response:
Former leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge being tried by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal apologized to families of victims of the regime's atrocities, bringing a rare emotional note to an extended criminal trial dominated by the detailed recounting of names and old dates.
Khieu Samphan, the head of state of the 1970s communist regime, and Nuon Chea, the group's main ideologist, were responding to questions posed by the so-called civil parties, who are representing the victims' families at the trial.
Both men have issued expressions of regret before for the killings, but they have denied legal responsibility and insisted they served with the best interests of their country and its people in mind.
They have also not hesitated to cast blame on their former colleagues and other parties.
Their statements Thursday were notable chiefly for the context — they were responding directly to the family members who had testified in emotional detail to the manner in which they lost their loved ones to Khmer Rouge brutality.
Because prosecutors must try to prove the defendants bore responsibility for the actions, much of the testimony has sought to draw a legalistic line showing their knowledge through a chain of command. Thursday's testimony touched on the moral implications of one of the most shocking historical episodes of the 20th century.
"I feel extremely sorry for the disappearance and extremely brutal killing of your father," Khieu Samphan told Yim Roum Doul, claiming, however, that he did not know at the time about "the atrocities committed by the military commanders and leaders."
"I did not know the great suffering of our people," he said, adding that the perpetrators "must be brought to justice."
He said he joined the Khmer Rouge not to kill fellow Cambodians but with the "determination to protect our country and to develop our country."
"But unfortunately it turned out to be a complete disaster," he said, describing those responsible as "the most stupid persons on earth."
In testimony earlier this week, Khieu Samphan did not neglect to point the finger at other parties whom he believed contributed to the Cambodian holocaust.
Nuon Chea said in his testimony Thursday that he took "responsibility morally" for what occurred during the Khmer Rouge regime, explaining that "I feel remorseful for the crimes that were committed intentionally or unintentionally and whether or not I had known about it or not known about it."
Like Khieu Samphan, he offered condolences.
Nuon Chea, who testified from his cell by video because of poor health, has spoken of his regrets previously, in the 2010 documentary film "Enemies of the People."
"I have always said I made mistakes. I am regretful and I have remorse. I am sorry for our regime. I am sorry," Nuon Chea told Cambodian filmmaker Thet Sambath.
But he was also clear that the Khmer Rouge leaders had seen their primary duty as safeguarding the revolution and said suspected traitors were killed because they "were enemies of the people."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/khmer-rouge-leaders-apologize-victims-families-19286701#.Ua7e4kbn-M8
Ryan Nober
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Methods Cambodian genocide
Pictures:
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http://expatspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/feature-cambodia-barbed-wire-foodline1-300x198.jpg
Primary source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJGG1uWn1M&list=PLDE52A6394A2F3F49 -Manny different interviews with Cambodians about the genocide and a documentary showing first hand accounts of the damage the genocide had on cambodia
international response- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCmj86VgC0
Darr Gebreselassie
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Methods of Cambodian Genocide
Image on right bottom http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm killing fields
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~amamendo/photos.html painting of prisoner in a single cell starving
http://esthernababan.blogspot.com/2008/07/trip-to-phnom-penh.html killing tree 7th picture
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response international response
http://www.andantepublishing.com/cambodia-killing-fields-survivor-shares-his-story/ survivor shares his story
Lauren Palla
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Pictures:
http://www.elvaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/04/4268334fa5feb-10-1.jpg
http://andybrouwer.co.uk/ge7.jpg
http://nimg.sulekha.com/others/original700/cambodia-genocide-trial-2009-3-31-0-1-31.jpg
International Response:
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia2.html
Under international pressure, Vietnam finally withdrew its occupying army from Cambodia. This decision had also been forced by economic sanctions on Cambodia (the US's doing), and by a cut-off in aid from Vietnam's own backer, the Soviet Union. The last troops left Cambodia in 1989, and its name was officially restored. In the 1978-1989 conflict between the two countries (and their behind-the-scenes international string-pullers) up to 65,000 had been killed, 14,000 of whom were civilians.
Primary Source:
http://www.genocidewatch.org/cambodiaproject.html
By Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch
16 February 2012
I, personally, who was in charge S-21 as the director, was responsible for the criminal mechanism and I am determined to take legal and moral responsibility for all the crimes committed at S-21. And, secondly, I, Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, was not in charge of all the security centres throughout the country, but I was a member of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and as such I still carry the moral weight of all the crimes perpetrated against the people and nation of Cambodia throughout that regime. I deserve whatever punishment the Cambodian people may mete out. When I am personally challenged before the victims, the many widows, the orphans - I accept that they condemn me. I bow before them so that they can see that I have acknowledged my crimes. It is unfortunate that some of the widows did not have the opportunity to come here.
Chad Patterson
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Lasting Impact
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6HH6JPI4Dw
Pictures:
http://sorensen.edublogs.org/files/2011/11/pol-pot1-m2br11-209x300.jpg
http://emmafoster.edublogs.org/files/2012/11/s-killing-fields2-171k9sj.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hpAH4vabJ8/UPUyEwA0VwI/AAAAAAACQYo/hEz_9z_s4-4/s1600/The+Killing+Fields,+1865.jpg
International Response:
America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities.
-President Carter
Lewis Goodman
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Lasting Impact
Pictures
http://theclick.us/2009/07/cambodia-genocide-photographer-memories-from-tuol-sleng-prison/
http://joythegreat.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/cambodiangenocide/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/feb/16/cambodia-khmer-rouge
International Response
http://www.plu.edu/news/2013/01/cambodian-genocide/home.php
Primary Source
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/cambodian-genocide-survivor-speaks-at-dslc-1.2823420#.UbAlqEDVB8E
Iqbal Qayum
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Cambodian Genocide: Lasting Impact/Legacy
Pictures:
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http://compassionforcambodiadotorg.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/genocide-23.jpg?w=300&h=203
http://travisjthompson.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/work-camp-late-1970s.jpg
Letter from Victim:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/11/08/arn-chorn-pond-survivor-cambodia-khmer-rouge-lends-his-life-story-national-book-award-nominated-novel-for-young-adults/Qn5aHiUTWIUaQ0481TxTOI/story.html
International Response:
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.html
Works Cited:
http://www.learningace.com/doc/1463095/80fb15a6ccb478c2c65d9934b7da303a/connecting-the-broken-pieces-after-the-cambodian-genocide-legacy-as-memory-of-a-nation
Cole Bowers
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Cambodian- Lasting Impact/legacy
Pictures- http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_df4kVFj1mWM/R3wLsnSre9I/AAAAAAAAAJk/bqYAdK4xZgs/s320/Cambodian%2Bgenocide.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FrMvSQZ4KTE/Tap1Fo-q46I/AAAAAAAAF3g/zk6yqGOM0ow/s640/Fall+of+PPenh+05+-+Roland+Neveu.jpg
Primary Source- https://sites.google.com/site/thesecretbombingofcambodia/cambodian-genocide
International Response- https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Brittney Collinson
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Methods of Cambodia genocide
Photos:
http://www.wbez.org/story/cambodian-genocide-survivors-gain-new-voice-exhibit-92274
http://www.worldnextdoor.org/2012/09/the-khmer-rouge-genocide/
http://www.examiner.com/article/cambodia-s-choeung-ek-genocidal-center-and-tuol-sleng-genocide-museum
Cambodian genocide survivor speaks at DSLC
“When I was just nine years old the Communists took over the country,” Pond said. “My parents were executed and I was forced to watch my siblings crawl … to a death of starvation. It was very hard for me to feel so powerless and know that I could not help them.”
While in the camps, soldiers forced Pond to partake in some of the murders.
“Sometimes they would force me to help them out,” Pond said. “I was a prisoner, and they could force me to push others into the graves. If I showed any emotion with the victims I would have been killed.”
Pond said his love for traditional Cambodian music, specifically the flute, helped him through his difficult experiences. He and four other prisoners in the camp started a music group; only two members of that group are alive today.
“Music got me through,” Pond said. “Even today, it still helps me to heal.”
In 1980, after living several months alone in the Cambodian jungle, Pond was rescued and adopted by Reverend Peter L. Pond who brought him back to New Hampshire.
“I felt very lucky, but very scared at the same time,” Pond said. “It seemed as though no one in the United States understood me or where I came from.”
After coming to the U.S., Pond said he felt anger, depression, resentment and even suicidal at times. His adopted father encouraged him to speak out and share his story to help deal with his feelings.
“I didn’t know what it meant to be heard,” Pond said. “I never thought that white Americans would care about me, but I was wrong.”
He started speaking at local churches and today his voice has been heard by Amnesty International groups, the United Nations and even former President Jimmy Carter.
After he began to share his experience, Pond stepped into a new role: human rights activist. He is the recipient of many international humanitarian awards and founder of several organizations, including Children of War, Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development and Peace Makers.
“I choose to sing and to start different organizations,” Pond said. “It is not easy to share my story, but it is part of my healing process. I love the work that I do now because it saves lives and inspires others. This work allows me live.”
DSLC chair Guadalupe Quintana said Pond’s talk was a perfect way to kick off events for the conference because his talk will inspire others.
“His story is very capturing and embodies everything that DSLC represents,” she said.
Quintana said DSLC represents sharing stories that would otherwise go unheard and learning of differences that would often go unnoticed.
Pond expressed the importance of embracing one’s roots and one’s own unique stories.
“It is our life and our story,” Pond said. “Don’t deny your differences or your stories, because then you will be denying your culture.”
Pond ended his talk by encouraging the members of the audience to go out in the community and share their voices for social change.
“Do not underestimate one person,” Pond said. “Everyone has their own story to share. Everyone has their own pain. Do not spend time comparing pain, just live united. One by one you are the angel that the world needs. Go fly and be that angel.”
Work Cited:
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/mobile/news/cambodian-genocide-survivor-speaks-at-dslc-1.2823420
Lily Giedd
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Cambodian genocide-Impact/Legacy
Pictures~
-http://www.potomacschool.org/faculty/okoth/GSII/Spring06web/camwebpage-final.htm
( Image at the bottom ) http://cambodianschaffergenocide.weebly.com/international-community.html
-http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/khmer-rouge-soldiers-3.jpg
Primary source ~
"How does one come to grips with insanity? They asked me what I thought the Genocide meant, looking for an answer from an outsider. I had no answer.
Many of them wanted revenge and wished to see the remaining members of The Organization punished. But few of them wanted to take it further. Too many people were implicated—in one way or another, the whole country, including Hun Sen, present leader of Cambodia. Some of them were ready to accept that the killers had also been victims."
- Vann Nath http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/vann-nath.html
International response~
After their victory, the KR did everything they could to put a veil over the country. Their were however a few sources of information concerning Democratic Kampuchea that was available to the outside world.
A few people in Congress demanded that the US examined what was happening in Cambodia, Stephen Solarz, a Democrat NY, linked Khmer Rouge Atrocity to the Holocaust. He heard account that shocked him such as the KR murder of people who wore glasses. He joined forces with Senator Claiborne Pell and together they were able generate interest of Cambodian affairs. They had hearing on Capital Hill which focused solely on Cambodian Atrocity.
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/diplomatic-response
Jonathan Tarazi
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Cambodian Genocide- Lasting Affects/Legacy
Images:
http://change-production.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/wordpress_copies/genocide/2010/01/800px-dsc00071.jpg
http://laoscambodia.com/cambodia-genocide.jpg
http://marketingcambodia.org/lCambodia__genocide.jpg
A Physician's Description of His Prison Camp:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1978cambodia.asp
Comments and clarifications submitted on 17 September 1996 by the
Government of Cambodia on the report of the Secretary-General on the human rights situation in Cambodia:
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/51/plenary/a51-453add1.htm
Paige Holehouse
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Cambodian Genocide: Lasting Affects/Legacy
Pictures:
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http://archive.indymedia.org.nz/sites/default/files/usermedia/image/2/large/democratic-kampuchea.jpg
Primary source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2TcA8P0QE
International response:
America cannot avoid the responsibility to speak out in condemnation of the Cambodian government, the worst violator of human rights in the world today. Thousands of refugees have accused their government of inflicting death on hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people through the genocidal policies is has implemented over the past three years...It is in obligation of every member of the international community to protest the policies of this or any nation which cruelly and systematically violates the right of its people to enjoy life and basic human dignities.
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
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Cambodian Genocide- Lasting Affects Legacy
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Primary Source-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH3D1X5_CGg
International Response-
"A few leftists were so eager to see an egalitarian band of Communist revolutionaries taking control of yet another Southeast Asian state that they paid little attention to reports of terror. But many who in fact cared about the welfare of Cambodians were relieved that the corrupt, abusive Lon Nol had been deposed. Most had learned to doubt any claim that emerged from a U.S. government source. But above all, politics and recent history aside, they possessed a natural, human incapacity to take their imaginations where the refugees demanded they go"
-Power
https://sites.google.com/site/anatomyofagenocidecambodia/u-s-response
Brandon Kheradmand
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Cambodian Genocide Methods
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3)http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-U1958777.jpg?size=67&uid=34a3c8cb-1370-4e8d-a36c-3dc7dc531e65
Primary Source: Under threat of death, Cambodians nationwide were forced from their hometowns and villages. The ill, disabled, old and young who were incapable of making the journey to the collectivized farms and labor camps were killed on the spot. People who refused to leave were killed, along with any who appeared to be in opposition to the new regime. The people from entire cities were forcibly evacuated to the countryside. All political and civil rights of the citizen were abolished. Children were taken from their parents and placed in separate forced labor camps. Factories, schools, universities, hospitals, and all other private institutions were shut down; all their former owners and employees were murdered, along with their extended families. Religion was also banned: leading Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries were killed, and temples and churches were burned.
International Response: April 30, 1994
"The US Congress passes the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act, which states “it is the policy of the United States to support efforts to bring to justice members of the Khmer Rouge for their crimes against humanity committed in Cambodia between April 17, 1975, and January 7, 1979.”
Works Cited: http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
http://www.d.dccam.org/Archives/Chronology/Chronology.htm