Cambodian Genocide by Prachi Mital

First Stage: Classification- Nethra

22pm0464 — 2018-03-09 15:17:39 UTC

The dominant group was a communist group known as the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge believed Cambodia had been tainted by Western ideas. People included in the minority group were the educated such as doctors, lawyers or the police and people who belonged to the religious groups of Christianity, Islam ,and Buddhism.

Flag of the Khmer Rouge

Second Stage: Symbolization / RAUNAK

22pm0464 — 2018-03-09 15:18:27 UTC

the whole Cambodian genocide was about a fight between the educated and the uneducated it all started when the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government in 1975 then the educated people were tortured and sent to labor camps. The symbolization step comes in then when they started bothering the educated people so that shows they are classifying people, just because they are educated unlike the Khmer rouge.

Third Stage: Discrimination - Tarini

22ts06211 — 2018-03-09 15:19:13 UTC

-> The dominant group or leader is named Pol Pot who was the political leader at the time of the genocide. Pol Pot lead the Khmer Rouge group. They aimed at took particular aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servants and religious leaders.
-> "How the discriminated:
- Money, private property, jewelry, gambling, most reading material and religion were outlawed; agriculture was collectivized; children were taken from their homes and forced into the military; and strict rules governing sexual relations, vocabulary and clothing were laid down."
- >Those who broke the rules or complained about their work were tortured in a detention center and later killed.
- >" Some historians regard the Pol Pot regime as one of the most barbaric and murderous in recent history."
-> Anyone not being loyal to Pol Pot will be killed
- Killing fields: Mass graves that bury thousands of bodies
- Here is the link to the info I found on Pol Pot -

Fourth Stage: Dehuminization- Prachi

22pm0464 — 2018-03-09 15:19:34 UTC

Khmer Ruge dehumanized the Cambodian people by making false statements saying that they were helping the Vietnamese in the war against the Americans. They also made all the Cambodian people work in one large field. It was said that the only way to survive was to work a lot. An interesting thing about this genocide is that they made everyone work....the sick, the old, women and children. If you were caught crying or smiling you were killed. If you were wearing glasses you were killed. If you spoke a foreign language you were killed. They also abolished religion and destroyed all schools, hospitals factories, and private institutions. Once these were destroyed they killed all the owners and previous owners and employees. Khmer Rouge also took away all political and citizens rights in order to dehumanize the Cambodians. One of the main causes of death in this genocide was starvation. Another way they dehumanized the people were they separated children from there mothers. Khmer Rouge didn't believe that the Cambodians had any use other they working in the fields . Another disgusting thing Khemer Rouge did was make some cambodians admit that they were animals instead of people.

Fifth Stage: Organization- Nethra

22pm0464 — 2018-03-09 15:21:31 UTC

The Cambodian Genocide was organized by the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge gained power after the Khmer Republic, a pro America and pro West Cambodian government dropped about 1/2 a million tons of bombs on Cambodia. Family members of the victims of these bombs and those who opposed the bombs, joined the Khmer Rouge revolution and eventually they gained power over 85% of the Cambodian territory. Then Pol Pot renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea after invading Cambodia's capital and making the educated flee.

Sixth Stage: Polarization - raunak

22nr0584 — 2018-03-09 15:44:22 UTC

They polarized people because one of the sides would kill people for things such as smiling, crying, speaking foreign language and for wearing glasses this shows how the Khmer rouge has such strong opinions about one thing and they would do any thing to make their opinion be followed.

Seventh Stage: Preparation - Tarini

22ts06211 — 2018-03-09 15:46:54 UTC

"Pol Pot, who had begun to emerge as Cambodian party chief, and the newly formed Khmer Rouge guerrilla army, launched a national uprising in 1968. Their revolution started off slowly, though they were able to gain a foothold in the sparsely populated northeast."
- He trained his army using Chinese war and battlefield tactics.

Eighth Stage: Persecution - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-11 17:51:01 UTC

The eigth stage of genocide is Persecution. In Cambodia the Khemer Rouge persecuted th educated, like lawyers, docters, police and military force. They also banned the use of any minority language. Also if you were caught with a book you were looked at as violating a capital offence. People in the easter zone were forced to wear a blue and white checkered scarf and those not from the easter zone were not allowed to. Cambodiens were also brought to prisons and fields and they were torutured so that Khemer Rouge could find names of those in hiding. Some cambodiens were also put into a confined space where they were starved to death.

Blue and White Checkered Scarf

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Cambodia Labor Field

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Dehuminization Political Cartoon

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Political Cartoon

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Pol Pot

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Killing fields

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Sign Near Graves

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Tenth Stage: Denial- Nethra

22nr0584 — 2018-03-12 14:46:03 UTC

Pol Pot died in 1998 but when other high members of the Khmer Rouge were on trial in 2013, they refused to admit that they ordered the atrocities that happened under them.
One was Noun Chea who said "Through this trial it has been shown clearly that I was not engaged in any commission of the crimes as alleged by the co-prosecutors. In short, I am innocent in relation to those allegations," (Telegraph UK).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/cambodia/10418542/Khmer-Rouge-leaders-deny-responsibility-for-Cambodia-atrocities.html

Ninth Stage - Extermination - TARINI

22ts06211 — 2018-03-12 14:46:12 UTC

- About 1.7 million died under the Khmer Rouge's reign. The people were killed with mostly guns and other weapons. Bombs were sometimes used in large cities to kill more people. People who didn't fit the ideals of Pol Pot immediately get killed. The people who they hate would get killed on target. The killing started from 1975 and ended on 1979. The army, along with the help of the U.S army , saved many people who were in captivity or in hiding. They went against Pol Pot's army and had a war with them. The U.S soon broke their ties with the Cambodian army after 1979.
Link to some of the info-

FIVE W's - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 14:50:45 UTC

Picture of soldiers in the Khmer Rouge.

22rc01131 — 2018-03-12 14:51:00 UTC

shows that the soldiers were poor and were all alcoholics and the low class people.

PICTURES

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WHO - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 14:54:45 UTC

In the Cambodia Genocide the perpetrators were the Khmer Rouge and Pol pot who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge. The Victims were the Cambodians, the educated, those who wore glasses and those who used foreign language.

The location of Cambodia

22rc01131 — 2018-03-12 15:19:00 UTC

WHAT - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 15:27:50 UTC

The Cambodian Genocide was the Khmer Rouge and there leader Pol Pot's attempt to centralize the farming society. Pol Pot was in power and ran the government from 1975 to 1978, giving him the ability to carry out his mission. His goal was to make everybody revert to the "old life" and become like the "old people" which essentially meant the people who lived a traditional rural life and farmed. The Cambodian genocide killed between 1.5 to 3 million people within 3 years!

WHEN - PRACHI/TARINI

22ts06211 — 2018-03-12 20:37:19 UTC

The Cambodian Genocide began in 1975 when Pol Pot got control of the Khmer Rouge government and lasted for 3 years but ended once Pol Pot was overthrown by the Vietnamese army in 1978.

WHERE - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 21:39:31 UTC

The Cambodian Genocide happened in Cambodia which is a county in Southern Asia. When Khmer Rouge took control they renamed the place to Democratic Kampuchea.

WHY - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 21:42:27 UTC

The Cambodian Genocide happened because Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot believed that society was better when there were only farmers so they killed the educated, and police and military, as well as Pol Pot, believed that foreign language was bad. His goal was to make everybody revert to the "old life" and become like the "old people" which essentially meant the people who lived a traditional rural life and farmed.

Facts - PRACHI

22pm0464 — 2018-03-12 22:14:26 UTC

Pol Pot was never brought to trial for his crimes.

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Cambodia has a population of roughly 11 million people.

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