Cambodia 1975 - 1979
The Rise of the Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge movement emerged from the Cambodia's struggle against French colonization 1940's. Over the next couple decades, the movement began to grow. The Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 - 1979 was ruled of Pol Pot (picture above) in Cambodia. The four-year period cost approximately 2 million lives through disease, starvation, and forced labor. The Communist Party of Kampuchea, more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia in 1975. The Khmer Rouge created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until January 1979. Pol Pot was never tried for crimes against humanity, but died of natural cause in 1988.
To find out more on the Pol Pot, please go to:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm
Life During the Khmer Rouge
Just a few days after the Khmer Rouge came into power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge forced over 2 million people to leave their homes. The Khmer Rouge forced the people from villages such as Phnom Penh into the countryside to move into camps. Even on the road to the camp, thousands of people died. The Khmer Rouge wanted to turn Cambodia into a rural, classless nation. They wanted the people of Cambodia to be neither rich, nor poor. In order for the Khmer Rouge to obtain their goal, they eliminated money, schooling, markets, religious practices and more.
To find out more on the Khmer Rouge regime, please go to:
http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/
The Khmer Rouge movement emerged from the Cambodia's struggle against French colonization 1940's. Over the next couple decades, the movement began to grow. The Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 - 1979 was ruled of Pol Pot (picture above) in Cambodia. The four-year period cost approximately 2 million lives through disease, starvation, and forced labor. The Communist Party of Kampuchea, more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia in 1975. The Khmer Rouge created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until January 1979. Pol Pot was never tried for crimes against humanity, but died of natural cause in 1988.
To find out more on the Pol Pot, please go to:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm
Life During the Khmer Rouge
Just a few days after the Khmer Rouge came into power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge forced over 2 million people to leave their homes. The Khmer Rouge forced the people from villages such as Phnom Penh into the countryside to move into camps. Even on the road to the camp, thousands of people died. The Khmer Rouge wanted to turn Cambodia into a rural, classless nation. They wanted the people of Cambodia to be neither rich, nor poor. In order for the Khmer Rouge to obtain their goal, they eliminated money, schooling, markets, religious practices and more.
To find out more on the Khmer Rouge regime, please go to:
http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/
One of the many camps in which the Cambodians were forced to work
http://www.concertcambodia.org/images/Poverty-khmer%20rouge.jpg
http://www.concertcambodia.org/images/Poverty-khmer%20rouge.jpg
Patricia McCormick
Patricia McCormick wrote the book Never Fall Down because she met Arn firsthand. A neighbor in Patricia's apartment helped Patricia meet Arn and to hear his story. As Patricia heard Arn's story, she could feel the overwhelming sadness and pain that Arn had to undergo. What inspired Patricia to write the book was that she felt that the world had turned its attention away from Cambodia; however, the genocides still go on to this day. Patricia McCormick is now fifty-seven years old. Arn is now forty-eight years old
To find out more on Patricia McCormick and why she wrote about Arn, please go to:
http://patriciamccormick.com/never-fall-down/
To find out more on Patricia McCormick and why she wrote about Arn, please go to:
http://patriciamccormick.com/never-fall-down/
