10 stages of genocide
Differences between people are not respected. There is a division between “us” and, in this case, the intellectuals and foreigners.
What is classification?
Sentencing three leaders. The tribunal included a mechanism to allow for the participation of victims as civil parties. Though by the time of the tribunal many leaders were already deceased.
What occurred during the hybrid UN-Cambodian tribunal?
Pol Pot’s teenage peasant guerilla force identified by wearing red
Who were the Khmer Rouge
A series of proxy wars and geopolitical conflicts in the late 20th century between Communist Russia and Capitalist America
What was the Cold War?
Violations against people’s rights and liberties.
What is the enduring issue of human rights violations?
Symbols are used to distinguish between people. Such as the Khmer Rouge wearing red scarfs and giving the people they planned on killing blue scarfs
What is symbolization?
Forced copulation and marriages between teenagers
What actions did the Khmer Rouge take to keep Cambodian populations up?
The former prime minister of Cambodia and leader of the communist khmer rouge
Who was Pol Pot?
A program focused on bringing agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military up to modern standards in China
What were Deng Xiao Ping‘s 4 modernizations.
A struggle between opposing forces. This could be between individuals, groups of people, or nations.
What is conflict?
The perpetrator group leaders plan the “Final Solution” to the targeted group “question.” They often use euphemisms to cloak their intentions, such as referring to their goals as “purification”
What is preparation?
Many Cambodians tried to flee from Thailand with a majority of them ending up in America.
Where did many Cambodians go after the genocide?
An underlying cause of the killing fields; a proxy war between Communist Russia and Capitalist America, with Ho Chi Minh as the leader for the communist side
What was the Vietnam War?
1992-1995 Muslims were put into concentration camps, gunned down and females were raped. On July 11, 1995, Serb forces massacred 7-8,000 in Srebrenica.
What was the Bosnia genocide?
Human beings use and extraction of recourses.
What is the exploitation of recourses?
Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity.( in this case because of their level of education and ties to the west) Their property is often taken away. Sometimes they are even confined to a famine struck region and starved. They are deliberately deprived of resources such as water or food in order to slowly destroy them. Children are forcibly taken from their parents.
What is persecution?
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge killed over 1.7 million Cambodians by starving and overworking them to produce near impossible amounts of rice
What were the killing fields?
From years 1969-1973 North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia were bombed killing around 150,000 Cambodian peasants. Ultimately destabilizing the Cambodian monarchy and leading to a communist revolution
What was the American bombing of Cambodia?
Hutu and Tutsi, Tutsi were referred to as cockroaches. On April 7, 1 million people lost their lives in 100 days.
What was the Rwandan genocide?
The state of not having enough of something, like food
What is scarcity?
The mass killing legally known as genocide. Such as the Killing fields
What is extermination?
The most famous memorial site where parts of their archives have been digitized, making thousands of documents, pictures, biographies and other material freely available.
What is the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum?
The creator of political ideas that influenced Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh.
Who was Karl Marx?
An economic policy based on collectivization and the expansion of industry in 20th century Russia
What was Stalin‘s 5 year plan?
The misuse of authority for harmful, illegal, or unethical ends.
What is the abuse of power?