Dehumanization: Tuol Sleng Prison
STAGE 3 - DEHUMANIZATION
Historically, genocidaires have dehumanized targeted groups by depicting them as animals, vermin, insects, diseases, or tumors. This rhetoric constructs a narrative which justifies the "cleansing" of society. The mass murder of a people or peoples is facilitated through this process.
Dehumanization literally means to deprive a person or group of human qualities or attributes.
Courtesy of DCCam. Tuol Sleng Prison.
It should noted that classification, symbolization, and dehumanization all reinforce one another and are deeply intertwined. Racially or ideologically inspired hate speech inherently dehumanizes the "other", but is also simultaneously sharpens divisions within society …show more content…
Originally sponsored by Vietnam, Khmer Communist Party was dedicated to the formation of a Cambodian socialist state. The party planned to follow the Maoist approach of initiating widespread revolution through initial insurgent activities in the countryside. By 1960, Khmer Communist Party was moving beyond merely expressing Maoist philosophies; the group was now actively engaging the Cambodian government in battle. Utilizing terrorist tactics, the terrorist group would battle the Cambodian government from 1960 to 1975. During this time, Cambodia's long-time leader Norodom Sihanouk dubbed the guerilla organization the Khmer …show more content…
Adam Jones describes this as a policy of urbicide, meaning "deliberate attempts at the annihilation of cities as mixed physical, social and cultural spaces." The KR constructed a national assembly out of a theater in Phnom Penh
Space under the Khmer Rouge were transformed. The sinister S-21, otherwise known as Toul Sleng, is a school that was turned into a torture and killing center. Under the supervision of Kaing Guek Eav (otherwise known as "Duch"; see "Justice" section) at least 12,272 people were killed at Toul Slang.
Extermination, the seventh stage, is the actual mass killing of targeted groups. This is what people see as genocide, which legally it is, but Greg Stanton illustrates to us that when we apply the stages we see that extermination is facilitated by the fulfillment of preceding stages.
Courtesy of DCCam.
Adam Jones, in Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, points to three Khmer Rouge Genocidal Institutions that led to
Historically, genocidaires have dehumanized targeted groups by depicting them as animals, vermin, insects, diseases, or tumors. This rhetoric constructs a narrative which justifies the "cleansing" of society. The mass murder of a people or peoples is facilitated through this process.
Dehumanization literally means to deprive a person or group of human qualities or attributes.
Courtesy of DCCam. Tuol Sleng Prison.
It should noted that classification, symbolization, and dehumanization all reinforce one another and are deeply intertwined. Racially or ideologically inspired hate speech inherently dehumanizes the "other", but is also simultaneously sharpens divisions within society …show more content…
Originally sponsored by Vietnam, Khmer Communist Party was dedicated to the formation of a Cambodian socialist state. The party planned to follow the Maoist approach of initiating widespread revolution through initial insurgent activities in the countryside. By 1960, Khmer Communist Party was moving beyond merely expressing Maoist philosophies; the group was now actively engaging the Cambodian government in battle. Utilizing terrorist tactics, the terrorist group would battle the Cambodian government from 1960 to 1975. During this time, Cambodia's long-time leader Norodom Sihanouk dubbed the guerilla organization the Khmer …show more content…
Adam Jones describes this as a policy of urbicide, meaning "deliberate attempts at the annihilation of cities as mixed physical, social and cultural spaces." The KR constructed a national assembly out of a theater in Phnom Penh
Space under the Khmer Rouge were transformed. The sinister S-21, otherwise known as Toul Sleng, is a school that was turned into a torture and killing center. Under the supervision of Kaing Guek Eav (otherwise known as "Duch"; see "Justice" section) at least 12,272 people were killed at Toul Slang.
Extermination, the seventh stage, is the actual mass killing of targeted groups. This is what people see as genocide, which legally it is, but Greg Stanton illustrates to us that when we apply the stages we see that extermination is facilitated by the fulfillment of preceding stages.
Courtesy of DCCam.
Adam Jones, in Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, points to three Khmer Rouge Genocidal Institutions that led to