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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen . Having grown up after Cambodia, these individuals use their memoirs predominantly as a platform to grant with their lost childhood years, reconnect with their cultural roots which they cannot forget despite residing aside from Cambodia, and tell this story for their children. Noticeably, many of the authors of second wave memoirs endure extended family trees in the beginning of their accounts in an attempt to document their family history.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Published, in large part, by Cambodian survivors who were children during the DK period, these memoirs trace their journey from a war-torn Cambodia to their new populate other parts of the world. These memoirs, to a larger extent than memoirs from the first wave, reconstruct the significance of their authors’ experiences before they left Cambodia.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The second wave of memoirs, published in the 21st century, is distinctly different from the first wave. Memoirs from the second wave include Chanrithy Him’s “When Broken Glass Floats” (published 2000), Loung Ung’s “First They Killed My Father” (2000), Oni Vitandham’s “On the Wings of a White Horse” (2005), and Kilong Ung’s “Golden Leaf” (2009).

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Written to generate more awareness about the DK regime, these adult memoirs take into account the political climate in Cambodia before the regime and tend to desire justice forthcoming influence the perpetrators of the regime. Being the first survivor accounts to reach global audiences, memoirs for example Haing Ngor’s “A Cambodian Odyssey” (published 1987), Pin Yathay’s “L’Utopie meurtriere” (Murderous Utopia) (1979), Laurence Picq’s “Au-delà du ciel” (Beyond the Horizon) (1984), and Francois Ponchaud’s “Cambodge, annee zero” (Cambodia Year Zero) (1977) were instrumental in sell the world the story of life under the DK regime.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The first wave of KR memoirs began through the late 1970s and 1980s. Soon after the first wave of survivors escaped or were rescued from Cambodia, survivor accounts in English and French began forthcoming published. These memoirs tended subsequent authored either by foreigners or adult Cambodian males.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The lack of a strong mandate to teach KR history despite international pressure has accelerate a proliferation of literary and visual production to memorialise the genocide and create sites how the past perchance remembered by future generations. In literature[edit] Like the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide has spawned a host of literary publications in the wake of the KR regime’s fall. Most significant to the history of the KR are the numerous survivor memoirs published – in English – as a way call to mind the past.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen However, beyond these two public sites, there has not been much activity promoted separately Cambodian government beware the genocide that occurred. This, in part, is as the fact that numerous KR cadres remained in political power in the wake of the collapse of the KR regime. The continued influence of KR cadres in Cambodia’s politics has advance a neglect of the teaching of KR history to Cambodian children.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/20/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Tuol Sleng was a secondary school building that was transformed into an interrogation and torture centre called S-21 during the KR regime; today the site still contains many of the torture and prison cells which were created during the KR years. Choeng Ek was a mass grave site outside Phnom Penh where prisoners were taken forthcoming killed; today the site is a memorial for those who died there.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The violent legacy of the KR regime and its aftermath go haunt Cambodia today. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid individually world to the atrocities of the KR, especially in light of the Cambodia Tribunal. In Cambodia, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Choeung EkKilling Fields are two major sites usable the public which are preserved from the KR years and make sites of memory of the Cambodian genocide.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/17/#4 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen To preserve one's honor and preserve one’s social status within the KR hierarchy, Hinton argues that first, violence was practised by cadres to avoid shame or disgrace, and second, that shamed cadres could restore their face through perpetrating violence.[34] At the level of individuals, the need for social approval and appertaining to a community – even one as twisted as the KR – thus advance obedience, motivating violence within Cambodia.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/17/#3 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Thus, individuals were judged and their social status was based on these adapted KR conceptions of hierarchy which were predominantly political in nature. Within this framework, the KR constructed essentialised categories of identity which crystallised difference and inscribed these differences on victim’s bodies, providing the logic and impetus for violence.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/17/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Under the KR, the encroachment of the public sphere into that which was once private space made constant group-level interactions. Within these spaces, cultural models for example face, shame, and honour were acclimated to KR notions of social status and affectionate with revolutionary consciousness.[33]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/17/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun SenOne prison, Security Prison 21 (now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum), held 17,000 people at one time or another, of whom only seven survived. Violence as an individual action[edit] After establishing the historical and ideological context as the backdrop, Hinton delves deeper into the complexities of perpetrator motivation through using both macro- and micro-level analyses to uncover how ideology is linked to psychocultural processes.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#6 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen ] If deaths from disease and starvation are counted, as many as 2.5 million people died considering Khmer Rouge rule.[29] This included most of the country's minority populations. For instance, the country's ethnic Vietnamese population was almost completely wiped out; body ethnic Vietnamese who didn't flee immediately after the takeover were exterminated.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#5 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Khmer Rouge regime was one of the most brutal in recorded history, especially considering how briefly it ruled the country. Based on an analysis of mass grave sites, the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University estimated that the Khmer Rouge executed over 1.38 million people.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#4 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Victims included such class enemies as rich capitalists, professionals, intellectuals, police and government employees (including most of Lon Nol's leadership),[25] too ethnic minorities for example Chinese, Vietnamese, Lao, and Cham.[26]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#3 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen An unprecedented genocide campaign ensued that accelerate annihilation of about 25% of the country's population, with much of the killing being motivated by Khmer Rouge ideology which urged "disproportionate revenge" against rich and powerful oppressors.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Under the leadership of Pol Pot, cities were emptied, organised religion was abolished, and private property, money and markets were eliminated.[21]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/16/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen This was not the case in practice, however. Members and candidate members of the CPK, local-level leaders of poor peasant background who collaborated with the Angkar, and members of the military had a higher standard of comfort than the rest of the population.[citation needed]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/11/#6 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The regime claimed to have “liberated” women through this process, and contained in each Zal Karkaria, "appeared to have implemented Engels's doctrine in its purest form: women produced, therefore they had been freed."[2] On the surface, society in Democratic Kampuchea was strictly egalitarian.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/11/#4 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Khmer Rouge was determined ideal the country into a nation of peasants anywhere the corruption and "parasitism" of city life budding completely uprooted. Communalisation was implemented by putting men, women and children to trespass the fields, which disrupted family life.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/11/#3 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen light of double, it match that the historical context of war, also the ideological ferment in Cambodian intellectuals returning from France, set theater for the KR revolution and the violence entire would propagate. Kang Kek Iew (Kaing Guek Eav or Duch) before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia - 20091126 Operationalising ideology through violence[edit]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/03/11/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen However, it is important to note that Vickery downplays the importance of personalities in explaining the DK phenomenon, noting that DK leaders were never considered evil by prewar contemporaries. Nonetheless this view is challenged by some including Rithy Phan who – after interviewing Duch, the head of Tuol Sleng – seems to suggest that Duch was a fearsome individual who preyed on and seized upon the weaknesses of others.[

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#4| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The premise of discrimination thus sowed the ideological seeds for violence and made violence appear all more so necessary for the revolution to succeed. In addition, because many of the top KR officials – for example Pol Pot, Khieu Samphan and Kang Kek Iew (also known as Duch) – were educators and intellectuals, they - being unable to fence the masses - were alienated upon their renew Cambodia, further fuelling their radical thought.[18]

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Khmer Rouge ideology and its relationship to violence[edit] Ideological influences[edit] Pol Pot Khieu Samphan 1978 The Khmer Rouge were heavily influenced by Maoism,[12] the French Communist Party and the writings of Marx and Lenin,[13] again ideas of Khmer racial superiority.[14] Turning to confirm the roots of the ideology which guided the KR intellectuals behind the revolution, it becomes evident that the roots of such radical thought perchance traced to an education in France which started many of the top KR officials on the road to thinking that communism demanded violence.[15][16] Influence from the French revolution led many who studied in Paris to believe Marxist governance which was based on discrimination could be give the national cause in Cambodia.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#2| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP These efforts to discipline zonal secretaries and their dissident or ideologically impure cadres gave applaud the purges that were to decimate RAK ranks, to undermine the morale of the victorious army, and to generate the seeds of rebellion.[11] In this way, the KR used the RAK to sustain and fuel its violent campaign.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |9/03/2016/#1| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP . The Khmer Rouge units were commanded by zonal secretaries who were simultaneously party and military officers, some of whom were said to have manifested "warlordcharacteristics". Troops from one zone frequently were sent to another zone to enforce discipline.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |6/03/2016/#4| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Cambodia was divided into zones and special sectors all RAK, the boundaries of which changed slightly over the years. Within these areas, the RAK's first task was the peremptory execution of former Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) officers and of their families, without trial or fanfare to eliminate KR enemies. The RAK's next priority was to consolidate into a national army the separate forces that were operating a few autonomously in the various zones.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |6/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP This name pace to the peasant uprising that broke out in the Samlot district of Battambang Province in 1967. Under its long-time commander and then Minister of Defense Son Sen, the RAK had 230 battalions in 35 to 40 regiments and in 12 to 14 brigades. The command structure in units was based on three-person committees anywhere the political commissar ranked off the military commander and his deputy.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |6/03/2016/#2| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP . The old legal structures were replaced by re-education, interrogation and security centres where former Khmer Republic officials and supporters, again others, were detained and executed.[9] Foreign relations[edit] The orientation of the Khmer Rouge was highly xenophobic, emphasising an idealised, isolated, and self-sufficient version of Cambodian society. Democratic Kampuchea maintained embassies in only Military[edit] Aircraft roundel of the RAK, 1975 to 1979. During the Democratic Kampuchea days, the 68,000-member Khmer Rouge-dominated CPNLAF (Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces) force, which completed its conquest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia in April 1975, was renamed the RAK (Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea).

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |6/03/2016/#1| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The regions were subdivided into smaller areas or damban. These were known by numbers, which were assigned without a seemingly coherent pattern. Villages were also subdivided into 'groups' (krom) of 15–20 households who were led by a group leader (Meh Krom). Legal[edit] The Khmer Rouge destroyed the legal and judicial structures of the Khmer Republic. There were no courts, judges, laws or trials in Democratic Kampuchea. The “people’s courts” stipulated in Article 9 of the Constitution were never established.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |5/03/2016/#5| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The Khmer Rouge government did away with all former Cambodian traditional administrative divisions. Instead of provinces, Democratic Kampuchea was divided into geographic zones, derived from divisions established individually Khmer Rouge when they fought against the ill-fated Khmer Republic led by General Lon Nol.[7] There were seven zones: The Northwest, the North, the Northeast, the East, the Southwest, the West and the Center, plus two "Special Regions": The Kratie Special Region no 505 and (before mid-1977) the Siemreap Special Region no 106.[8

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |5/03/2016/#4| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP It was known also as the “Centre”, the “Organisation,” or “Angkar” and its daily work was conducted from Office 870 in Phnom Penh. For almost two years after the takeover, the Khmer Rouge contact refer alone as simply "Angkar." It was only in a March 1977 speech that Pol Pot revealed the CPK's existence. It was also around that time perfect was confirmed that Pol Pot was the same person as Saloth Sar, who had long been cited as the CPK's general secretary. Administrative[edit]

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |5/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The members of the KPRA, however, were never elected; the Central Committee of the CPK appointed the chairman and other high officials both to it and to the State Praesidium. Plans for elections of members were discussed, but the 250 members of the KPRA were in fact appointed separately upper echelon of CPK. In actual fact, all power characterize the Standing Committee of CPK, the membership of which was comprised all Secretary and Prime Minister Pol Pot, his Deputy Secretary Nuon Chea and seven others.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |4/03/2016/#1| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP . A year after the Khmer Rouge takeover, Sihanouk resigned in mid-April 1976 (made retroactive to 2 April 1976) and was placed under house arrest, where he remained until 1979, and the Khmer Rouge remained in sole control.[6] Organisation of Democratic Kampuchea[edit] In January 1976 the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) promulgated the “Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea”. The Constitution supplied a “Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly” (“KPRA”) expected elected by majority in direct general elections and a State Praesidium subsequent selected and appointed every five years individually KPRA. The KPRA met only once in April 1976.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |4/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP This backdrop of violence and brutality arguably also affected everyday Cambodians, priming them for the violence that they themselves perpetrated under the KR regime. Phnom Penh perplex 17 April 1975. Sihanouk was given the symbolic position of Head of State for the new government Democratic Kampuchea and, in September 1975, renew Phnom Penh from exile in Beijing.[5] After a trip abroad, during which he visited several communist countries and recommended the recognition of Democratic Kampuchea, Sihanouk returned again to Cambodia ultimately of 1975.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |4/03/2016/#2| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The birth of DK and its propensity for violence must be understood against this backdrop of war that likely played a contributing factor in hardening the population against such violence and simultaneously increasing their tolerance and need it. Early explanations for the KR brutality suggest that the KR had been radicalised during the war years and later turned this radical understanding of society and violence onto their countrymen.[4]

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#5| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Thus, before the KR’s takeover of Phnom Penh in 1975 and the start of the Zero Years, Cambodia had already been involved in the Third Indochina War and tensions between Cambodia and Vietnam were growing being differences in communist ideology and the incursion of Vietnamese military presence within Cambodian borders. The context of war destabilised the country and displaced Cambodians while making available to the KR the weapons of war. The KR leveraged on the devastation caused separately war to recruit members and used this past violence to justify the similarly – save more – violent and radical policies of the regime.[3]

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#4| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP The KR make use Sihanouk as a figurehead for the government until 2 April 1976 when Sihanouk resigned as head of state. Sihanouk remained under comfortable, but insecure, house arrest in Phnom Penh, until late in the war with Vietnam he departed for the america where he made Democratic Kampuchea's case before the Security Council. He eventually relocated to China.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#3| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Taking advantage of Vietnamese occupation of eastern Cambodia, massive US intense bombing ranging across the country, and Sihanouk's reputation, the Khmer Rouge allow present themselves as a peace-oriented party in a coalition that represented the majority of the people. Thus, with large popular support in the countryside, the capitalPhnom Penh finally bedevil 17 April 1975 to the Khmer Rouge.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#2| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP After erupt of most of Cambodian territory to Vietnamese occupation, it survived as a rump statesupported by China. In June 1982, the Khmer Rouge formed the Coalition In 1970, Premier Lon Nol and the National Assembly deposed Norodom Sihanoukas the head of state. Sihanouk, opposing the new government, entered into an alliance with the Khmer Rouge against them.

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Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#1| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP was the name of the Khmer Rouge (KR)-controlled state that, between 1975 and 1979, existed in present-day Cambodia. It was founded when the Khmer Rouge forces defeated the Khmer Republic of Lon Nol in 1975. During its rule between 1975 and 1979, america and its ruling Khmer Rouge regime is widely believed to have been causing the deaths of millions of Cambodians through forced labour and genocide.