Transcript The Cambodian Genocide

Antoni Randhawa
Shawn Song
Eric Baxter
Ethnically
Bans
 The targets were
 Religion
Vietnamese, Chinese,
Muslims, and Buddhist
monks.
 People residing in
urbanized areas and
cities.
 Upper class.
 Music
 Radio
 Foreign languages
 Wearing glasses
 Laughing
 Crying
 Expressions of affection
 Blue scarf for the people of the Eastern part of the Khmer Rouge,
Cambodia.
 The Khmer slogan: "To spare
you is no profit, to destroy
you is no loss".
 It made no difference to the
Khmer Rouge whether they
were dead or alive.
 Used various torture
techniques for little to no
reason
 Under command of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
 Socialist program to reconstruct the way Cambodia was.
 “Agrarian socialist philosophy"
 Cities were raided and people relocated to communal farms.
 Most people were left to starve, dehydrate or work to death.
 International organizations offered aid but the government
refused assistance.
 The government attempted to
suppress the communist and
Vietnamese presence.
 People were given a blue scarf
to wear in the eastern part of
Cambodia.
 The population was put to work as
laborers in one federation of
collective farms.
 Anyone in opposition was killed.
 Anyone refusing to leave their home,
didn't go fast enough, or disobeyed
were killed.
 Professional citizens (doctors,
lawyers, teachers, politicians, etc)
were killed.
 Army was killed.
 All monks and approximately 8,000
Christians were murdered
 The campaign to end genocide supports an international
tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge.
 Promotes U.S. signature and ratification of the treaty creating an
international criminal court.