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    The Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot took control of Cambodia in 1975 and sought to transform the country into an agrarian communist state. Over the next four years, the Khmer Rouge killed anyone affiliated with the former government and banned religion, education, and private property. The regime forcibly relocated citizens from cities to rural work camps where malnutrition and overwork were rampant. Dissidents were taken to torture centers like Tuol Sleng prison or mass gravesites like the Killing Fields. Through these horrors, the narrator's mother endured separation from her family as a child and witnessed widespread death before the Vietnamese overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

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    The Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot took control of Cambodia in 1975 and sought to transform the country into an agrarian communist state. Over the next four years, the Khmer Rouge killed anyone affiliated with the former government and banned religion, education, and private property. The regime forcibly relocated citizens from cities to rural work camps where malnutrition and overwork were rampant. Dissidents were taken to torture centers like Tuol Sleng prison or mass gravesites like the Killing Fields. Through these horrors, the narrator's mother endured separation from her family as a child and witnessed widespread death before the Vietnamese overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

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    M.

    OKUBO
    CITIZEN
    13660
    Brittney Nhem
    HUMA 1100
    1B

    Khmer Rouge Regime (1960s)


    Led by Pol Pot
    Cambodian Dictator
    Wanted to create a communist agrarian society

    Began the Khmer Civil War


    Took control of Phnom Penh (1975)
    Became a terrorist organization
    Four years of communism

    Transition
    Killed anyone affiliated with the government/welleducated
    Feared rebellion
    Grandpa had to hide identity

    Religion and education banned


    Temples overthrown; monks killed
    Schools turned to prisons or camps

    Tuol Sleng
    Prison

    Relocation
    City to farmland
    Recruited teenagers to train as soldiers
    Males and females
    Easy to persuade

    Adults and children separated into different camps

    The Killing Fields


    Where people were killed and buried
    Piles of bodies
    Elders, adults, children

    Through My Mothers Eyes


    Seven years old at the time
    People died from manual labor, starvation, illness
    Baby sister died of sickness

    Work from dawn to dusk


    No breaks or food
    Suffered from malnutrition and could only crawl

    Would run away to parents camp


    Was shipped to a different city without parents or siblings

    Only saw parents twice a year


    Visits during Khmer Rouge Independence Day
    Khmer New Years

    Liberation
    Communists overthrown by Vietnamese 1979
    Surviving families reunited
    UN refugee camps in Thailand and Philippines
    Mothers family travelled by foot from Cambodia to
    Thailand
    Sponsored by family member in Utah

    Fathers family travelled from Cambodia to Philippines


    Sponsored by family friend
    Cambodian pilot granted political asylum by America

    Citations
    http://
    www.huffingtonpost.com/just/this-khmer-rouge-survivor
    _b_8226154.html
    http://peteralanlloyd.com/general-news/a-summary-of-th
    e-uss-secret-war-in-cambodia-during-the-vietnam-war
    /
    http://borgenproject.org/cambodias-killing-fields/
    http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-andconflicts/cambodian-genocide
    http://www.trtworld.com/sites/default/files/images/2016/0
    5/24//
    trtworld-gallery-fid-140754-internet.jpg
    https://closetart.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/south-eastasia-map.jpg

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