Cambodian Genocide Hope Project
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CAMBODIAN GENOCIDEHOPE PROJECT
Darcie Stanton and Deanna Harris
'To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.‘ -Khmer Rouge Slogan
Where is Cambodia?
= Cambodia= Vietnam
- South East Asia- Less than half the size of California and twice the size of Scotland.
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
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 Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son
Sen, and Khieu Samphan Took over Cambodia Wanted a Communist peasant farming
society
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
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.
Strategies Up to 20,000 people were tortured into
giving false confessions at Tuol Sleng, 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
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
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????????
Memorials
Tuol SlengNicknamed the S-21Used to be the prison/torture centre
Now is a museum
Memorials
Cheoung EkKilling fields17 000 buriedHome to a memorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE
Conclusion1.7 million out of 8 million
21% of population 1 million from starvation and disease
Half a million slaughtered