Never Fall Down Summary Arn Chorn-Pond‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ Never Fall Down‚ is a typical 11-year-old boy growing up in Battambang‚ a rice-harvesting village in western Cambodia. The residents of Battambang are vivacious‚ and the entire village is prospering. However‚ when the Khmer Rouge‚ a radical Communist regime‚ seize power in April of 1975‚ Arn’s unpretentious life changes dramatically. Suddenly‚ his once playful‚ carefree lifestyle is filled with tribulations and tragedies
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Under the Khmer Rouge regime‚ the country perished socially. The lives of everyone present in Cambodia at this time were drastically changed. Over a million people were forced to relocate out of Phenom Penh and were placed in labor camps located far from their original homes. Likewise‚ millions of people were murdered to give rise to Pol Pot’s standard for the nationalization of the country. Prominent figures that gained massive followings were considered a threat to the society Pol Pot was attempting
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For centuries‚ wars continue to occur throughout the world‚ there are multiple wars that we all forget. The Cambodian Civil War: Pol Pot was one of the major war and the only a small number survived the War. Those survived are now close to retirement as the Cambodian Civil War: Pol Pot War ended in 1979. Not many people know about the war as few survived and only some people are willing to talk about the Pol Pot War because it brings back “terrible” memories. Chou Onn‚ 58 is one of the lucky handfuls
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Cambodian genocide report The Cambodian genocide can be said to have started when the Khmer rouge government came into power under Lon Nol‚ who was the self-proclaimed President of the Khmer Republic‚ in 1975 and lasted until 1978 when the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese. Khmer Rouge was a group that had strong ideals and were intent on creating a ‘perfect world’ that is based on the old society and its values. This included removing anything modern and westernized to be removed. They
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April 1975‚ saw the Khmer Rouge seize Phnom Penh and with it the basic human rights and dignity of it’s people; who were marched out of the city and forced into slave labour camps under the guise of equality. Pol Pot‚ leader of the Khmer Rouge‚ was educated in Paris where he became familiar with Marxist Ideology. He wanted to revolutionise Cambodia by turning it into a giant agricultural food bowl‚ farmed by its people. This change was marked by renaming Cambodia Kampuchea and in recognition of
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In the Cambodian genocide‚ 1975 to 1979 one third of the population died. Two articles about genocide survivors are “killing fields’ survivor documents Cambodian genocide” by Jennifer Hyde and “Why the arts are as important as hospitals in Cambodia” by Emily Wight. Individuals and societies who suffer a trauma such as genocide can heal through using art or bring guilty people to trial. Some people heal through art‚ like music. If Pond was a slow learner‚ he would have been killed by Khmer
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Blood and Sacrifice A country filled with corruption‚ death‚ and human rights violations. One in every five people would end up dying‚ each one in its own ruthless way. From 1975-1979‚ Cambodia experienced one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. One girl experienced this atrocious genocide at the age of five and lived to tell the tale. The girl‚ Loung Ung‚ shares her experience in the book First They Killed My Father. The theme of First They Killed My Father is that in times of crisis
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In 1975‚ The Khmer Rouge became the ruling political party of Cambodia after overthrowing the Lon Nol government. Following their leader Pol Pot‚ the Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering on Cambodian society. They wanted to form an anti-modern‚ anti-Western ideal of a restructured “classless agrarian society’’‚ a radical form of agrarian communism where the whole population had to work in collective farms or forced labor projects. The Khmer Rouge revolutionary army enforced
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The Khmer Rouge with its leader Pol Pot‚ seized Cambodia in 1975. Year zero is declared‚ in effect Cambodia was isolated from the rest of the world‚ and cities‚ money‚ private property and religion were abolished. In hopes of making Cambodia become an agrarian utopia‚ Khmer Rouge forced the people who lives in the cities of Phnom Pehn and Battambang to leave their homes and were dictated to work in the labor camps‚ where people are abused and executed. About 2 million people died during their reign
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On April 17‚ 1975‚ Communist dictator Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge into the the capital city of Phnom Penh‚ Cambodia. As people fled the capital‚ the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government‚ establishing their rule shrouded in blood and murder. Their goal: turn the country of Cambodia into a communist agrarian utopia. Although the Khmer Rouge only held power for four years‚ it was an incredibly brutal time. The Khmer Rouge murdered between 1.7 to 2.2 million people in an attempt to create
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