HIST250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cambodian Genocide, Culture Of Cambodia
20 Dec 2016
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Intent to destroy national, ethnical, political, racial group. Separating definition of genocide from acts of genocide: deportation & war & killing is not genocidal. Shaped vision, world view in every sphere of life. Violence was primary mean to come to power. Government was in a continuing state of war. Goes from buying possessions to someone who does not need possessions. By taking the city people out of the city and putting them to work in the farms, they could reeducate them and their social relationships the farms, they could reeducate them and their social relationships. Above all they wanted to create a homogenous society. Level out uneducated and educated, same education level. To develop single class of farming, working people. Gave free reign to local people, they carried out the killings. Followed a great amount from communists but deeply rooted in cambodian culture. Appropriated native buddhists and practices (ironic for it to be connected with genocide)
