While each genocide was unique, certain features were common in all three genocides, and racism was a major part of the ideology of all three regimes. All three regimes targeted religious minorities and they also tried to use force in order to expand their rule into what they believed were ...
Cambodia's modem-day culture has its roots in the 1st to 6th centuries in a state referred to as Funan, known as the oldest Indianized state in Southeast Asia. It is from this period that evolved Cambodia's language, part of the Mon-Khmer family, which contains elements of Sanskrit, its...
It was the era when the communist Pol Pot regime took over the country and his ruthless policies – through genocide – slaughtered and starved to death as many as two million Cambodians. All cultural institutions in Cambodia were negatively effected during the Pol Pot period of political history...
This concern for social order and harmony may be all the more heightened in a post-genocide, post-occupied state; indeed, following this period there were pervasive fears that Khmer culture itself would be lost (Frieson, 2001). However, it is also clear from the analysis that what it ...
political office in Long Beach, when she was elected to represent Long Beach City Council’s District 6. In 2021, the city council member’s office partnered with theAsian Empowerment Associationto produce the event,Remembrance and Renewal: Honoring Cambodian New Year and Cambodian Genocide ...
At the same time, the Vietnamese government was sympathetic to the ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia. The Vietnamese community in Cambodia was heavily targeted during the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. Why did America invade Cambodia? Under the Sihanouk regime, the Nixon ...
A view from S21, what is now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. MTC: The Khmer Rouge regime was such a dark period of history, how have you decided to handle the tone of your show given this subject matter? LP: “At its core, the show is an attempt to explain how and why a quarter...