Khmer Rouge Genocide

We asked ourselves why we learned from our mistakes in the past. The same answers has always continued to be, “so we will not repeat the same mistakes in the future”. So if the past is a guideline to our future, then why has mass genocide continued to occur? Did we not learned from the deaths of millions of innocence during the Holocaust? Than why has Cambodia lost an estimated 1.7 million of its population in the last century. An absence of 21% from its total population during the Khmer Rouge. My main obligation in this paper is to ultimately answer how the Khmer Rouge embarked on their corrupt domination to cause such destruction, and why we continued to let history repeats itself. To accomplish our goal, three organized sections will inform

In which, resulted in the death toll of approximately 11 million people. Nevertheless, six million were of Jewish people. The death toll of which no one seemed to cared or prevent. Innocent, breathing, samaritans, that were all annihilated by the corrupt diplomatic dictator for being an outcast because of their appearances and religious beliefs. The same principle of corrupt authority that controlled Rwanda generated another mass genocide. False accusation of incriminating innocent people for the death of their own president was the event that sparked this genocide. 800,000 people perished during the Rwanda genocide. Even so, the world stood by and watched. Only to believed by the fact that the conflict was more of a civil war rather than a mass genocide, and the total cost of providing aids was very tremendous. Any of which, the world should have stepped in and prevent the murdering of thousands. The creation of these genocides have all been sparked by the principle of a corrupt supreme leader. In which was the same factor during the Khmer

Before the war, Dith Pran lived in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, where he worked with a British film crew. Eventually, the communist group, Khmer Rouge began to grew as they gained attention. Nevertheless, the Vietnam war, next border, ended as U.S. troops was pulled out in both Cambodia and Vietnam. Thousands of Cambodian scramble to escape as matters with the Khmer Rouge became lethal. Dith Pran, luckily help his wife and children onto U.S. military trucks as they were safe from danger. Sadly Dith Pran stayed behind with Sydney Schanberg and two other New York Times reporter, as they covered the Khmer Rouge supremacy. The four eventually were caught by a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers, but luckily the three Americans were speared from death. Dith Pran became a captive, and was soon working with others harvesting rice. In January 1979, the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the invasion from the Vietnamese. After the outbreak of the Khmer Rouge, Sydney Schanberg sponsored Dith Pran to America, where he was reunited with his family. Dith Pran passed away on March 30,