The Khmer Rouge killed basically killed everyone that was intelligent so that no one would over power them. The common people that were not killed were all gathered together and had a living arrangement. Pol Pot abused his power to oppress the people and gain more power. Throughout the four years about two million Cambodians died
Rules such as: deception, protection of participants and the right to withdraw. Participants were deceived by description of task because he did not want to give away the true nature of the experiment. Participants believed they were investigating punishment and learning to which they gave full consent but the study was on obedience. However before undertaking the experiment Milgram spoke with psychiatrists to determine whether people would be obedient and follow the instructions, they predicted that most subjects would not go above 150 volts, while 4% could be expected to reach 300 volts. The results contradicted the prediction and 65% of normal working class men continued to the maximum voltage.
Calley ordered everyone to be executed. It took 3 days to bury the bodies. It only came to light when an American soldier Paul Meadlo admitted killing 10-15 women and children at My Lai. It led to an investigation which destroyed the American militaries reputation. Student activism had started to develop in the 1950s.
These soldiers killed innocent civilians but these soldiers when they killed these innocent unarmed civilians were thinking in terms of war and not in terms of right or wrong. Like the characters in War and “Hurt Locker” the soldiers in My Lai became so adapt to war that war became the natural thought process. These soldiers thought that they were killing hundreds of Viet Cong that killed some of their own soldiers with mines but they were wrong. The soldiers forced these people into a ditch at the edge of their town and started to shoot all the people in the ditch. This is not something that normal civilians would do this is something that only a society that war has become its natural state would do.
Cambodian Genocide It all started with a lie. One simple little killed almost two million people. Khmer Rouge soldiers told Cambodian citizens to evacuate their house at once and to flee to the countryside. The Khmer Rouge soldiers told the citizens that American B-52 fighter planes were coming to bomb them. The citizens of course listened and when some turned around to retrieve something they forgot or refused to go they were shot.
Also, rookies were warned on their first day to not look over the parapet of the trench into” No Man’s Land”, because many men died on their first in the trenches from a precisely aimed sniper’s bullet. It has been estimated that more than one third of Allied casualties on the Western Front happened in the trenches. Aside from injuries, disease worked a heavy
Bob Herbert wrote an article called “Hounding the Innocent.” He talks about how more people are getting pulled over just because the police want to humiliate them. This act makes me indignant towards the law enforcement officers. Police are supposed to protect and serve not poke fun at people. Hispanics and African Americans are being humiliated but it’s mostly the minority groups. These groups are being stopped just because they seem like the “bad” people.
Maybe problems occurred and the negative attention is being focused on a certain person, and then they might use a scapegoat to try and escape the the tension and blame. Most people don’t want to face what they did wrong, so they go to scapegoats to relieve their pressure. Jeffrey Sherman of the University of California, Davis, who co-wrote the study, Why We Kick Others When We’re Down, says, "This is one of the oldest accounts of why people stereotype and have prejudice: It makes us feel better about ourselves, when we feel bad about ourselves, we can denigrate other people, and that makes us feel better about ourselves." Frequently, they use scapegoats as an aggression outlet. A person could bash the scapegoat down repeatedly because they know that the scapegoat cannot fight back, resembling a bully.
One officer, Captain Silas Soule refused to follow Chivington's order and told his men to hold fire. Other soldiers in Chivington's force, however, immediately attacked the village. Disregarding both the American flag and a white flag that was run up shortly after the soldiers commenced firing, Chivington's soldiers massacred the majority of its mostly-unarmed inhabitants. An estimated 150 Indians were killed and mutilated, mostly women, children, and elderly men. In testimony before a Congressional committee investigating the massacre, Chivington reported that as many as 500-600 Indian warriors were killed.” One source from the Cheyenne said that about 53 men and 110 women and children were killed.
We were being shot at from every direction by every weapon imaginable. I was separated from my squad through the fire. I was alone in an abandoned building. Most of my squad was killed in the fight and I sat put my head down and began to cry waiting for death to find me. In that instant, I heard someone’s footsteps.