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Cambodian Genocide Hope Project

'To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss .‘ -Khmer Rouge Slogan. Cambodian Genocide Hope Project. Darcie Stanton and Deanna Harris. Where is Cambodia?. = Cambodia. = Vietnam. - South East Asia

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Cambodian Genocide Hope Project

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  1. 'To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.‘ -Khmer Rouge Slogan Cambodian GenocideHope Project Darcie Stanton and Deanna Harris

  2. Where is Cambodia? = Cambodia = Vietnam - South East Asia - Less than half the size of California and twice the size of Scotland. 

  3. Background • US bombing in Vietnam affected Cambodia • In 1970 American backed Lon Nol took over from Prince Sihanouk • Destroyed the government • People wanted change • In 1975 Khmer Rouge took over from Lon Nol

  4. Khmer Rouge • Guerilla army • Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea • Based on the ideas of Vietnamese People Party • Led by Pol Pot • Assissted by  NuonChea, IengSary, Son Sen, and KhieuSamphan • Took over Cambodia • Wanted a Communist peasant farming society

  5. Victims • Foreigners • Intellectuals, professionals from any field • Old, very young, Disabled, Ill • Minority groups • Religious people • Children • “It was possible for people to be shot simply for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing, or crying.” • Took pictures

  6. Strategies • All of Cambodia's cities were forcibly evacuated and put into labour camps • Ten to fifteen families lived together with a chairman at the head of each group. • Would work for up to 16 hours a day • Every tenth day was a day of rest. There were also three days off during the Khmer New Year festival. • Starvation ("Hunger is the most effective disease.”) • In the villages, unsupervised gatherings of more than two people were forbidden.

  7. Strategies • Up to 20,000 people were tortured into giving false confessions at TuolSleng, a school in Phnom Penh which had been converted into a jail. • Prisoners were chained to the floor lying down and had to ask permission to sit up • Many methods of torture used

  8. Torture Methods • Beat them with anything could find- didnt use ammunition • Electric shock • Pulled off fingernails and poured alcohol on them • Dunked them head first into water • Waterboard

  9. Resolution • 1978 Vietnam invaded Kampuchea took over • Economy was completely ruined • Mass graves discovered in 1995 • In 1998 VOA reported about the tribunal • Pol Pot heard and died that night • Wife claimed it was heart failure • Body cremated • SUICIDE????????

  10. Memorials • TuolSleng • Nicknamed the S-21 • Used to be the prison/torture centre • Now is a museum

  11. Memorials • CheoungEk • Killing fields • 17 000 buried • Home to a memorial

  12. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE

  13. Conclusion • 1.7 million out of 8 million • 21% of population • 1 million from starvation and disease • Half a million slaughtered

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