CAMBODIA

Cambodia

Cambodia

Introduction

The purpose of this discussion is to analyze Cambodia with respect to poverty, war and human rights. The discussion will give special consideration to the factors that have had an influence on the developments that have taken place in Cambodia in the past. Between 1975 and 1979, on behalf of an absolutely egalitarian rural society, no family, no private property, no religion, no exchange or market, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot and inspired by the cultural revolution of Mao Zedong, took power in Cambodia, separating families and forcing people from the cities (source of all evil bourgeois) toward the field to re-educate the peasants and perform forced labor in rice fields (Morineau, Vun, Barennes, Wolf, Song, Prybylski & Chawalit, 2009). The currency of Cambodia was extinguished as the market and the most intelligent people of the country as teachers, doctors, engineers (who symbolized capitalism), were performed. Any attitude or feature resembling capitalism (like speaking a foreign language, or even wearing glasses) was grounds for execution. Most schools and libraries were all destroyed in the name of an egalitarian society.

Discussion & Analyses

In 1979, The Vietnam invades Cambodia and depose the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot led the resistance and in 1985, ceases to hold any official capacity but remains as figurehead of the Khmer Rouge (Potdar, Fetters & Phirun, 2008). In 1989 Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia and Pol Pot refused to cooperate with the peace process by continuing to fight the new government coalition. The Khmer Rouge can not keep away from government troops until 1996 when the Khmer troops, demoralized, begin to desert and Pol Pot flees his stronghold but is caught and sentenced to house arrest for life (Lorth, 2011). On 15 April 1998, Pol Pot died, officially of a heart attack. His body was burned in rural Cambodia, with several hundred former Khmer Rouge gifts.

The corpses of hundreds of thousands adubavam the rice fields of Cambodia when the jailer came to Huy Hin killing fields of Choeung Ek over a truckload of prisoners. The platoon under his command pushed to the edge of pits that were his grave (Hong & Chhea, 2010). Marauders with iron bars and axes shattered their skulls and then beheaded. Died handcuffed and knees, one by one, without knowing why, tortured to confess spies CIA or KGB, imperialist, bourgeois party traitors, enemies of intellectual or Pol Pot regime. The lieutenants that lunatic will be judged in the coming months by a UN-sponsored international tribunal (Reed, 2011). That extreme Maoism, ruralista and xenophobic cost the lives of 1.7 million people.

The massacre could not last long. In late 1978 a faction of the Khmer Rouge rebelled against Pol Pot. Was supported by Vietnam, which invaded the country in late 1978 (Ehrentraut, 2011). The PCK became guerrillas and despite knowing their atrocities, denounced in 1978 by Frenchman François Ponchaud, the U.S., China and Thailand backed the Khmer Rouge until 1989. The made to reduce the influence Vietnamese in Indochina ...