Jun Jang Mr. Telles English 2CP, Period 1 29 November 2016 Cambodian Genocide Research Paper INTRODUCTION Genocide is a term that refers to very violent or cruel action that happens in countries, and kills people and changes the countries’ future. In general the meaning genocide is “one of the worst moral crimes a government (meaning any ruling authority, including that of a guerrilla group, a quasi state, a Soviet, a terrorist organization, or an occupation authority) can commit against its citizens
I. Introduction 1. Background After the genocide ended in 1979, most of Cambodian scholars including teachers, professors, and researchers were all killed. Likewise, schools, pagodas and documents were almost destroyed all at the same time which leftover only orphans, widows and elderly people. The eradication of education has become a huge issue to obstruct the development progress of Cambodia even a long civil war have ended. Cambodia began to rally up the left-over educated people to do the job
“I wanted to die so I didn’t have to face it. But I knew I had to keep going” (Ty). This is from a survivor of the tragic Cambodian genocide that is explained by Loung Ung in her novel First They Killed My Father. The story goes in depth of her struggles during the genocide being only the age of 5. She puts on a display of strength and perseverance during her journey as a victim of the Khmer Rouge. In the book, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, Ung explores the idea of composure to develop
Let me talk first about pragmatic pacifism. In the decades since the anti-war peace movements of the 1960s and 70s, peacemaking has come to be seen as synonymous with absolute pacifism or what some describe as anarchic pacifism. Absolute pacism is the opposition to violence under any circumstance even in defense of self and others. For religious and moral reasons there will always be those who subscribe to absolute pacifism and oppose any form of violence; those who believe that war should never