Thursday, January 21st

DO NOW:
1)What is Organization?
2)Give an example of Organization
happening.
3)How was dehumanization demonstrated in
the Armenian Genocide?
GET OUT THE READING FROM YESTERDAY AND IF
YOU HAVE YOUR GROUPS QUESTIONS GET THEM
OUT

Cambodian Holocaust

http://www.countrywatch.com/cw_country.asp?vCOUNTRY=030

Who is responsible for

the Cambodian
Holocaust?

Pol Pot (Soloth Sar)

lived in Buddhist
monastery for six years
leader of the Khmer
Rouge guerrillas
tried to turn Cambodia
into a self-sufficient,
agrarian utopia
took control of Cambodia
in 1975

What did Pol Pot want to do?

Pol Pots Goal

Create a Self-sufficient,

agrarian, utopia (true

communism)

How did Pol Pot do this?

He Started Over = Year Zero

Eliminate all knowledge of

the past!!!!

How did he intend

to pull this off?
By enlisting the youth (9,10, 11 year old
kids) of the country in his new army known
as the Khmer Rouge (the young are easy to
influence).
By wiping the country clean of traces of the
past (killing those with knowledge of the
past).
By controlling all aspects of the country
(politically, economically and socially)

 By forcing all citizens into collectives

to work according to age, gender and
skill.
By holding indoctrination sessions
every evening to remind them all of the
wonderful rewards of communism.
By publicly murdering anyone that
questioned the Khmer Rouge.

Who are the Khmer

Rouge?

Khmer Rouge
The Communist Khmer Rouge came to
power in this small Southeast Asian
nation in 1975 as part of the vast
upheaval caused largely by the
spilling over of the Vietnam War.
The Khmer are communist followers
of Pol Pot
Most are young and enjoy their new
power

When the Khmer took over:

The populations of Cambodia's

cities were forced to evacuate the
cities, move to the countryside and
engage in agricultural labor. =

They closed most institutions (schools, banks,

government buildings, churches) and vowed to
provided for their needs in the countryside.
They required absolute obedience from all
Cambodians.

Khmer Slogan

Keeping new people is

no benefit, losing them
is no loss.

What type of person was the

most threatening to the Khmer
Rouges power?

Who was murdered?

People with glasses
People who could speak another
language
People whom had traveled
Foreigners
Counter-revolutionaries

Educated Prisoner
Intellectuals and anyone
else seen as standing in
the way of the new
social order were
mercilessly killed, while
many of those who
escaped execution died
from overwork and
starvation.

S-21Prison
(Interrogation Center)
(a former high school)

S-21 Prison
This building is now a museum devoted to
helping those impacted by these events.
Many Cambodians travel here to try to
understand what happened to their families
and friends.
http://www.downtheroad.org/Asia/Photo/2C
ambodia_Pictures/9Tuol_Sleng_Genocidal_
Crime.htm

So what brought an end to all of

this?
The Vietnamese invaded and took over
Cambodia ousting the Khmer Rouge from
power.
The country remained communist for some
time but not in such extreme conditions.
Pol Pot fled into the jungle and remained in
hiding until his death.
Pol Pot denied that he had ever done
anything wrong and truly believed he held
the future of Cambodia in his hands.

The Cambodian
genocide of
1975-1979,
eliminated
approximately
1.7 million
people
(21% of the
country's
population)

A Killing Field

 According to Yale Universitys

Cambodian Genocide Program
There were over 200 killing sites
9,500 mass grave pits

Pol Pot's death in April 1998

heralded the end of the
brutal career of a man
responsible for overseeing
one of the worst genocides
of the 20th century.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/june97/cambodia_6-18a.html

So what is Cambodia like after

Pol Pot falls from power?
Lack of education
For four years all they
have learned about is
communism they have
been shut out from the
rest of the world. They
farmed and read Maos
Little Red Book.
Generations of people
are dead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/78988.stm

Who is responsible for the

Cambodian Genocide?
Pol Pot and the Khmer
Rouge (communists)

Where and when did this occur?

Cambodia
At the end of the U.S. involvement
in Vietnam
1975 - 1979

Why and How?

The communists wanted to purge the
country of traces of the past and start over.
They used young minds and brutal
treatment to enforce their ways.

Want to see a great movie on this

historical event?
The Killing Fields