Cambodian Genocide

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Cambodian Genocide

• The Khmer Rouge Regime

Chia-Yi Lin Tam Tran Alec Tarantula Emily G.
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1. Political leader Pol Pot

• He and his army, called the Khmer Rouge, came to
  power in Cambodia in 1975.
• He was named prime minister of the new communist
  government in 1976 and began a program of violet
  reform.
• In hope of creating a society free of western
  influence, he abolished religion, institute,
  private property and evacuated cities.
• Under his regime, forced labor, execution and
  famine killed 2 million Cambodians.

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2. Headlines from newspaper

• Never Again the Khmer Rouge
• New York Times, Oct 8 1988
• Difficult to prove genocide in Cambodias
  killing fields
• The Associated Press, September 5 2000

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3. Speech and quotes

• I watched many Cambodians friends being herded
  out of Phnom Penh. Most of them I never saw
  again. All of us felt like betrayers, like people
  who were protected and didnt do enough to Phnom
  Penh when the Khmer Rouger marched in victorious
  in April save our friends. We felt shame. We
  still do.
• a foreign journalist in 17th 1975

• a number of people, many of them survivors of
  the Holocaust and other genocides risk
  oversimplification, and may lessen or even
  absolute guilt - a concern that is accentuated
  when perpetrators assert that they were only
  obeying orders.
• Alexander Laban Hinton , author of Why did
  they kill?

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4. Map OfCambodia
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5. Cambodian food
Num pra pey ny
Vegetable spring rolls

• Crispy rice and duck

Saich moan char trop
amok
Saiong jayk mian snoul
Khmer sor soup
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6. Language

• Language Khmer (official) 95
• French, English

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7. Reporters and photojournalists

• Robert Bingham, Michael Perkins, Jeff
  Apostolou, Mark Norris, Don Riley, David
  Chandler, Sara Colm, Peter Maguire.
• The Photo Archive Group's work in Cambodia
  benefited from the generous help of numerous
  organizations and individuals, including Robert
  Bingham, Michael Perkins, Jeff Apostolou, Mark
  Norris, Don Riley, David Chandler, Sara Colm,
  Peter Maguire, The Indochina Media Memorial Fund,
  Calumet Holdings Inc., The Saunders Group, Light
  Impressions, The Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund

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8. Role of the UN

• United Nations administrative tribunal helps
  those people who lived under Cambodian genocide
  to seek for their justice.
• The United Nations Peace building Commission
  helps to ensure predictable financing for early
  recovery activities and sustained financial
  investment over the medium- to longer-term.

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9. Members of the UN

• Responding to the invitation of the
  Secretary-General, His Excellency Kofi Annan, a
  Cambodian delegation led by His Excellency Sok An
  Senior Minister in Charge of the Council of
  Ministers has come to New York and has engaged in
  seven meetings - one with the Secretary-General
  himself, and six with representatives of the
  United Nations Secretariat, led by His Excellency
  Hans Corell, Legal Counsel, preparing for a
  resumption of negotiations for Khmer Rouge Trials
  for these crimes, in accordance with the General
  Assembly Resolution 57/288 of 18 December 2002.
• Thomas Hammarberg is the representative for
  Cambodia and was the one able to get the
  Cambodian government to ask for help from the
  United Nations

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10. International communities response

• The process of justice for the genocide in
  Cambodia started on June 21, 1997, when the
  Cambodian co-prime ministers asked the United
  Nations to step in and help organize the trials
  for those involved in the Khmer Rouge.
• In 1998 a group of experts was formed to examine
  the evidence, the law and different options of
  how to proceed with the trials of the Khmer
  Rouge. This group worked from July 1998 until
  February 1999 looking at three different things
  evaluating the evidences and the crime,
  apprehending people responsible, the different
  option for bringing people to justice.

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Symbolic emblem

• SR-21, a former school was turned into a torture
  factory during the Cambodia genocide. Thousands
  of people who were sent here would be given a
  number tag, as a symbol of recognition. Those
  people would later be tortured or executed.
• A total of 14,000 Cambodians were jailed here and
  only 10 of them survived.

Photos of prisoners with number tags on.
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Summary

• By 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime had killed around
  2 million people, which is about 30 of the
  population. The Khmer Rouge was head by Saloth
  Sar, better known as Pol Pot. On April 17th 1975
  the Khmer Rouge , a communist group led by Pol
  Pot, took power in Phnom Penh, the capital of
  Cambodia.
• The Khmer Rouge turned back the clock on Cambodia
  to more uncivilized times. Institutions such as
  stores, banks, hospitals, schools, religion and
  family were all banned. City dwellers were all
  forced to the countryside and to work in labor
  camps. The citizens worked 12 to 14 hour days
  inside the labor camps.
• The Khmer Rouge targeted Buddhist monks, Western
  educated intellectuals, educated people in
  general, people who had contact with Western
  countries, people who appeared to be intelligent
  (for example, individuals with glasses), the
  cripple, the lame and ethnic minorities like
  ethnic Laotians and Vietnams.

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Bibliography

• Burie, Vongko. Then UN should be held
  accountable in a major part of the genocide in
  Cambodia. Cambodian Information Center, on the
  web 28 Oct. 2005. Oct. 29 2006. www.cambodia.org
• Thul Chan,Park. commune Chiefs Where Was the UN
  from 1975-1979?. The Cambodia Daily. On the web
  28 Jun. Oct. 29 2006. www.genocidewatch.org
• Maguire, Peter. Facing Death in Cambodia,
  Colombia University Press, New York, 2005
• Etcheson, Craig. After the Killing Fields,
  Praeger Publishing, Westport CT, 2005