The Khmer Rouge sistimatically killed anything having to do with the educated "imperialistic" class. The website also points out that Cambodian's weren't the only targets, and that natives of surrounding countries were also imprisoned and executed. Historical Overview of the Khmer Rouge. (n.d.). Cambodia Tribunal Monitor.
Corruption of communist ideologies is seen all over the world, including in literature. From Creon’s role as the dictator in Antigone to the government brainwashing citizens in Fahrenheit 451 to modern day failures of communist ideologies, all three show a correlation in leadership techniques. Jose Marti once said that “the first duty of a man is to think for himself,” and in these three pieces of literature and culture, it is demonstrated how independent thinking and free will is eliminated under the rule of a socialist nation. In Antigone by Sophecles, Creon is a powerful dictator in Thebes and controls Antigone by abusing his power to tell her what she can do. He is able to instill fear in those who are beneath him as he uses corrupt government ideals and abuses his power.
Years before 9/11, we exploited Latin American countries and left their people impoverished. Prior to that, we started a war with Vietnam, one which the CIA grew extremley rich off of, and destroyed the country. Today, whether 9/11 was conspiricy or not, we destroyed a country which poised no threat to the United States what so ever in Iraq; and it's going to
One of their major goals was to disrupt and destroy the South Vietnamese government. Orders were actually given to the invaders to cause maximum disruption to the government to create crisis by killing military and administrative personnel. This reason alone would do some serious damage to the government but another tactic was to kill for “…terrorism and warning.” By killing government officials and private citizens it scared the citizens of not just Hue but all over the area into compliance with the National Liberation Front. The communists also wanted to annihilate Christians for political reasons. The communists always tried to suppress religions anyway possible and because of Ngo Dinh Diem being Catholic and in charge of South Vietnam at the start of the resistance to the North.
They are part of the story in a new text entitled The Second Red Scare: the unmaking of the New Deal Left, by Landon Storrs. Storrs major primary source is the loyalty program implemented on federal employees in an effort to weed out Communists in the government. She examines how this program was actually used to silence many of the early new dealers and to discredit their policies that were used to establish the welfare state, to safeguard and strengthen the economy under capitalism and to end economic inequality. And also as in the case of the project, Many are the crimes, to destroy the
However, this simple act of trying to track down communists to save the country turned into past experiences our country had already experienced. The new found “McCarthyism” started out as a task to eliminate communist threats in this country, and it ended being much like the witch hunt trials held in 1692. McCarthy let his paranoia get the best of him on the issue of communism and ultimately ruined an entire
And after gaining the capital, Pol Pot declared “Year Zero.” Pol Pot created the Cambodia Genocide, to help create his new society. The people that were targeted were: members of the former government, Buddhist monks, Muslims, educated people including university students and teachers, people in contact with Westerners or Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge started out with rejecting higher education, and was purging those who were. And by
For the Khmer Rouge had a slogan that went “To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.” Now that the Cambodians were contained in the countryside, the Khmer Rouge started separating children from their parents and sending them to labor camps. Pol Pot had a theory that anybody that was an intellectual, educated, or simply just knew another language had to be murder because he feared a revolt against them. So many teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and other professionals were killed together along with their
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. William Calley was a Lieutenant during the My Lai Massacre he believed that all the people in the village were Viet Cong. "I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy. That was my job that day. That was the mission I was given.
The south had them erupting because of the segregation that was still an accepted practice in that area. Other parts of the nation had them because of the Viet Nam conflict and all that it represented by way of government lies and the loss of innocent lives. Innocence was destroyed during this era, as the younger generation pulled back the curtain of the Wizard and saw that it was only a man dressed as the American government. Once the untruths became evident, the grass root movement to change the nation took hold and social protest became a way of life for the American people." (J. Baldwin) "The 1950s and the 1960s had very distinct and indelible influences on present day America.