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Genocide
Questions about the deliberate and systematic mass killing of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Famous genocides include the Holocaust, Dafur and Rwanda, and even the Crusades.
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Pol Pot ( Saloth Sat ) was supported by Mao Zedong in China. His Red Khmer took power in April 1975 during the fall of South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Laos. Pol Pot and his revolutionaries were greeted by many Cambodians who had enough of the ruling monarchy!
Mao Zedong in China knew that Pol Pot was a support of his agrarian based Stalinist ideology. Also Pol Pot stood in opposition to Moscow based Stalinism. United Vietnam was based on Soviet Stalinism and this strengthen his hatred for Vietnamese. The Red Khmer were also nationalists and Khmer supremacists.
By 1978 they had killed thousands of Vietnamese peasants and more then 1,3 million of their own people. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and forced Pol Pot into the jungle.
But because of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, Pol Pot found new allies. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher opposed the ''Socialist'' Republic of Vietnam and they choose to support the Red Khmer. Pol Pot made a coalition with Khmer monarchists to fight the People's Republic of Kampuchea. In the UN, the USA and British made sure that only Pol Pot's flag was allowed to fly. Until 1993 the seat of Cambodia in the UN was taken by a Pol Pot supporter.
The main supporters of Pol Pot until 1993 were
- Mao Zedong ( until 1976 )
- Ronald Reagan
- Margaret Thatcher
Who was involved in the Mao Ze-Dong genocide of Tibet?
It is widely acknowledged, even by China, that Tibetans possess a distinct cultural identity. To most of the people genocide in Tibet by China is disgusting. It is to me. Today there is still genocide going on in Tibet. Thousands of monks and other Tibetans are being held captive and tortured. Also millions of Chinese are moving into Tibet, making the Tibetans a minority in their own country. In 1950, one year after Mao Zedong took control of China, Chinese forces invaded Tibet. The Cultural Revolution in China started soon after millions across China and Tibet were killed. Mao Zedong like Hitler and Stalin was an extremist Darwinian and the Survival of the Fittest was incorporated in those atheist governments.
Why is the Armenian Massacre considered a genocide?
The Armenian Genocide is a genocide specifically because the Armenian people were targeted for elimination by Young Turk leaders like Enver Pasha. Even if the Turks' claims that there were Armenians conspiring with the Russians are taken at face value (unlike the farce that they are), there would be no point in executing Armenian Pro-Ottoman intellectuals and numerous women and children. These repeated killings of Pro-Ottoman Armenians and women and children demonstrate that the attempt was extermination, not the minimization of a wartime threat.
Where was the rest of the world during the Rwandan genocide?
In the literal physical sense, the rest of the world was in the rest of the world outside of Rwanda.
However, I think you are asking the question in a more abstract sense and you actually want to know why the rest of the world didn't intervene and either prevent or stop the Rwandan genocide. There are lots of partial answers to this - the UN didn't want to get involved in a major peacekeeping military deployment, the African continent was trying to get their own international peacekeeping force together, there were significant political considerations and calculations being made by each developed country as well as between national allies, and at the end of the day nobody stood up to say this is wrong and it needs to be stopped, politically expediency be darned. Everyone thought the situation was bad, but no one wanted to be the first to commit to actually doing something about it.
Who was the main character of the novel Never Fall Down?
The main character of this Patricia McCormick novel is Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Cambodian labor camps in the Khmer Rouge and genocide of the 1970s.
What was a major similarity between the genocides in Rwanda and Cambodia?
Both were largely ignored by the international community when they occurred.
What were methods used in Ukraine genocide?
Primarily starvation, deportation to gulags, and a shot to the back of the head in a prision was used. Brutall and efficent, this is typical of Stalin. This genocide is a major reason bettwen animosty bettwen Russia nad the Ukraine.
How was Rwanda in 1994 an example of genocide?
The Rwanda genocide involved large-scale massacres (800,000 killed in three months) on ethnic grounds. It Was messy
Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) passed away (Thankfully) April 15, 1998 .
Why did the European genocide occur?
Why did Europe kill Africans?Initially because Africa was impossible to colonize and because it seemingly had no resources, white sailors simply took defenseless black people as slaves to make money. The Africans did not have guns.Then, in the 1800s and the throws of the industrial revolution, major European powers colonized the interior of Africa for resources like rubber and ivory.
What impact did the jonestown massacre have on society?
jones town os where by a man called jim jones used religion to commit a crime, medical reports show that jim jones had a menatl problem and so his cruel aact impacted the society of guyana and its religion and people.
Were the perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide ever brought to justice?
The efforts made by the Cambodian government and the international community to bring genocidal perpetrators to justice were significant.
Both committed genocide.
What is the difference between holocast and genocide?
There is probably no difference. The holocast consisted of genocide. Hitler was going against the Jews so he sent all the Jews to concentration camps or death camps. There is probably no difference. The holocast consisted of genocide. Hitler was going against the Jews so he sent all the Jews to concentration camps or death camps.
What are likely events that can lead to genocide?
hatred
ethnic and cultural differences
unbalance of power between cultural groups
propaganda against a certain group
religious difference
fear
goal is to get rid of these people to preserve/ improve way of life
conflict over territory and resources
When is a mass killing considered to be genocide?
It is considered to be genocide as soon as mass killing becomes directed at a certain ethnic group.
What are some causes of the Cambodian genocide?
There are many reasons for the genocide in Cambodia. The leader of the Khmer Rouge (a political party that ruled ove cambodia from 1975-1979. Are the people that killed the over two million Cambodians.) said that the reason for the attacks on Cambodians was the United states bombing some of the main cities. Another reason why this genocide started was because Pol Pot (Prime minister) wanted to "Cleanse" the country of all impurities. He wanted to start over and even made a year zero ( You might have to look this one up). Anyone who uphosed was killed.
When did Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide happen?
Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide happened in 1970.
Who was mathematician in Armenia in the Armenia genocide?
there were differnt matthincians in armenia
What ideology has been used to justify more killings than any other belief system in history?
Answer 1:
Religion.
Answer 2:
Hardly religion. The ideology of "Socialism/Communism"* has been used to justify more killings than any other belief system, or all the religious beliefs combined.
Hitler's National Socialist Germany - 15 million to 20 million.
Stalin's Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 50 million to 100 million.
Mao's Communist China - 100 million plus.
Pol Pot's Commnist Cambodia - 3 million to 5 million.
Of course, any one inclined to socialism/communism could point out that those were not examples of "real" socialism/communism, which in their view is benevolent and just. But at the same time then, we would have to be fair and mention that any religious person is going to point out that the killings in the name of Christianity or Islam did not represent "real" Christianity or Islam, which in their view is benevolent and just.
The point is not then whether the given ideology was practiced in a "real" way, just whether there were people killed in its name.
Socialism/Communism had more people killed in its name than any other ideology, including all religions combined.
*Socialism and Communism are identical socioeconomic systems, the only difference being in how the goals are achieved politically. Socialism advocates a peaceful evolution into it, Communism a violent overthrow.
