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Cambodian Genocide Research Paper

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To many Americans the Cambodian Genocide was the most unknown genocide that took place. Just like the catastrophic event known as the Rwandan Genocide, this genocide is also not known. The Khmer Rouge committed the same crimes. Some of their murderous methods were very similar. During this time the Khmer Rouge put local Cambodians in prison, hospitals, and some schools to be executed or just to stay there to slowly suffer and eventually die. The Khmer Rouge was a ruthless party led by Pol Pot that killed many Cambodians in a gruesome fashion known as the Cambodian Genocide, using methods such as torture and starvation, which led to execution.
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To many Americans the Cambodian Genocide was the most unknown genocide that took place. …show more content…

The time before the Khmer Rouge came to be, Cambodia was a healthy and prosperous country. The rise of the Khmer Rouge was a local Communities party that believed that everything should be fair and equal. They were just like the Nazi’s; ruthless and careless. Pol Pot murdered artists because they thought they were to intelligent. The Khmer rouge took pictures of the victims that they killed by poison gases or with spades to help save on ammunition. The people that were killed were people that knew how to speak a foreign language, people that had glasses, people that spent a lot of time reading books. Ironically, Pol Pot himself was an educated man that knew how to speak French …show more content…

Somewhere around 2 million people died by starvation, torture, or having been executed. Most Cambodians as a child starved in house after the genocide. As a world leader President Nixon didn’t help out Cambodians with food and medical supplies because USA was at war with Vietnam and Vietnam was allied with Cambodia. Quoted from world info, “The international Red Cross had supplied emergency rations to the refugees.”(Mitchell) This organization is the only one that aids with some supplies. With a lot of people died in Cambodia because of starvation is not acceptable for day and past or even future generations. The Khmer Rouge tortured local Cambodians because either they had a higher education or they were rich. The Rouge tortured the Cambodians by working them until they died or until they caught a disease and died by that. They liked to work them at the plantations and other crops so they could profit from them. All the helpless men, woman, and children that did farming for a living never got to see their family every again. Their dad, mom, brothers, or even sisters were gone forever from their lives and not a single trace about them left for you to love. That is what some Cambodians felt when the liberation came

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