How is the Cambodian genocide remembered today?

Pol Pot wanted to create an agrarian utopia, to return Cambodia to the glory days of the Angkor Empire before the country was corrupted by foreigners. Mar 24, 2014 ... Sixty. What is important to understand is that the Khmer Rouge did not wish to destroy literacy: but they wanted their kind of literacy. By that ... Aug 13, 2023 ... Based on what I have read, I don't think the Khmer Rouge accomplished a single positive thing from 1975–1979, and it does not seem that anyone ... Aug 5, 2024 ... It became a joke with the colorist, "yes I know what you want, but we're already completely crushed..." I really like contrast, I do. Rithy wasn ... "As to what I will do with his family, I haven't decided," says Ta Mok. "If I let them go, will they say anything bad about me? Maybe they might be used by Hun ... He presided over a totalitarian dictatorship which made urban dwellers move to the countryside to work in collective farms and on forced labour projects. The ... Aug 13, 2007 ... Pol Pot did have a daughter, born, as she is in the story, in 1986 ... do have to wonder what the real Sitha would think of this tale ... Secretary,” in Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977, ed. David Chandler, et al. (New Haven: Yale ... Jun 27, 2011 ... He lost his left arm fighting for Pol Pot's revolution. He says Pol Pot was a great man for what he was able to accomplish but he failed to ... Jan 7, 2024 ... What lessons can modern Americans draw from the Cambodian nightmare? I'd suggest we show no tolerance toward grandiose social experiments of any ...