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Origin Review
Influenced by hill tribes Ethnonationalists Antimaterialist Year One
Khmer Rouge Origin Review Influenced by hill tribes - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Khmer Rouge Origin Review Influenced by hill tribes - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Khmer Rouge Origin Review Influenced by hill tribes Ethnonationalists Antimaterialist Year One Khmer Rouge Origin Review Influenced by hill tribes Ethnonationalists Antimaterialist Year One Dictatorship 101 Create evil empire
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Khmer Rouge
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Origin Review
Influenced by hill tribes Ethnonationalists Antimaterialist Year One
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Dictatorship 101
Create evil empire ‘outside’ Target intelligentsia Control education/media Restrict freedom Create civic religion Personality cult Create terror
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Radical ideologies
“If we can have rice, we can have everything.”
- Pol Pot 1978
“It is better to arrest 10 people by mistake than to let one guilty person go free.”
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Command Structure
- What? - Massacre
- When? - April 17, 1975
- Who? - Pol Pot, the military leader
- Where? - : Capital City of Phom Penh
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- Vietnamese Army invaded Camboida in
1979
- Pol Pot and Khmer were removed from
power
- Vietnam retained control
- Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to
govern Cambodia in 1993
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The Prison
- Pol Pot claimed that the
intellectuals can come back to cities;
- the teachers, doctors and other
types of bourgeois were then imprisoned in the Security Prison 21 (S-21) reformed from Tuol Svay Prey high school;
- classrooms were transformed into
2m² cells, all windows were covered by iron bars and wires;
- the victims were forced to take
- ff clothes and were handcuffed all
the time;
- they were brutally tortured,
forced to confess some crime and provide a list of colludes, then people on the list will also be arrested.
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- Polish born English author
- Famous for Heart of Darkness
- 1961 his family was exiled to Russia
- > bad living conditions killed his parents and
bruised Conrad for life
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- from an early age yearned to travel - > took him also to Congo
Free State (1890)
- fragile health (emotionally & physically)
- retired, married & build a family
- published many books that became very famous in the 20th
Century for his mastery of atmosphere and dramatic realism
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Heart of Darkness
- a narrated voyage up the Congo
River into the Congo Free State
- Africa was under the power of
European settlers who were trying to “civilize” the population
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Darkness Symbolism:
- The darkness every person possesses in their mind
and heart
- Attraction of greed and power
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“We couldn't understand
because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.”
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of
Darkness
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Dictatorship 101
Create evil empire ‘outside’ Target intelligentsia Control education/media Restrict freedom Create civic religion Personality cult Create terror
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Radical ideologies
“If we can have rice, we can have everything.”
- Pol Pot 1978
“It is better to arrest 10 people by mistake than to let one guilty person go free.”
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Command Structure
- What? - Massacre
- When? - April 17, 1975
- Who? - Pol Pot, the military leader
- Where? - : Capital City of Phom Penh
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- Vietnamese Army invaded Camboida in
1979
- Pol Pot and Khmer were removed from
power
- Vietnam retained control
- Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to
govern Cambodia in 1993
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The Prison
- Pol Pot claimed that the
intellectuals can come back to cities;
- the teachers, doctors and other
types of bourgeois were then imprisoned in the Security Prison 21 (S-21) reformed from Tuol Svay Prey high school;
- classrooms were transformed into
2m² cells, all windows were covered by iron bars and wires;
- the victims were forced to take
- ff clothes and were handcuffed all
the time;
- they were brutally tortured,
forced to confess some crime and provide a list of colludes, then people on the list will also be arrested.
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- Polish born English author
- Famous for Heart of Darkness
- 1961 his family was exiled to Russia
- > bad living conditions killed his parents and
bruised Conrad for life
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- from an early age yearned to travel - > took him also to Congo
Free State (1890)
- fragile health (emotionally & physically)
- retired, married & build a family
- published many books that became very famous in the 20th
Century for his mastery of atmosphere and dramatic realism
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Heart of Darkness
- a narrated voyage up the Congo
River into the Congo Free State
- Africa was under the power of
European settlers who were trying to “civilize” the population
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Darkness Symbolism:
- The darkness every person possesses in their mind
and heart
- Attraction of greed and power
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“We couldn't understand
because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.”
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of
Darkness