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English: Khmer Rouge-Cambodian Genocide

Overview

Background:

Your task is to use any of our WLHS Media Center databases to research and build background knowledge on:

  •  the Khmer Rouge army (soldiers, recruitment, and how they took over power in Cambodia);
  • the Cambodian genocide (specifically the treatment innocent civilians received and were forced to endure during the genocide);
  • Pol Pot (what he wanted, what he did, his background, education, philosophy);  
  • what happened to the leaders of the Khmer Rouge once the genocide ended (trials, prison time, their defense).  

 Getting Started:

You may want to start your search within our online catalog.  Here you will find both print and eBooks.

                                   
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Use Key Search Terms:

Genocide

Cambodia

Khmer Rouge

Pol Pot 

 

Databases

Here are a few Databases that will really help get you started. 

 

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Breakdown

Basic overview of the Cambodian Genocide

Use the following links to gain an overview of what the Cambodian Genocide was.  Use it to understand what the Cambodian Genocide was, who started it, who fought, who died, how it ended. Get an understanding of the event and then use the links to our databases to learn more.     

       
          		                    
                                              		              
                                                             

 

Now use the databases to answer the following questions.

 Cambodian Genocide

What is a genocide?

How did the genocide in Cambodia happen?

Who started it and why?

What happened to the innocent people of Cambodia?

What happened to the soldiers fighting in the genocide?

How did it end?

 Pol Pot

Who is he?

What is his background?

Did he have a family?

How did he grow up?

How did he get involved in a genocide?

What was he trying to prove?

How did he get people to join his army?

How did he get his army to kill so many people?

 Khmer Rouge army

Soldiers

Who are they?

Who were they before they were soldiers?

How did they get recruited?

Who were they after they left the army?

How did they get to leave the army?

Recruitment

How did the people in power get them to join?

Power in Cambodia

How did the army gain power?

Why did the army form?

Who formed the army?

Genocide is over

What happened to the leaders of the Khmer Rouge?

Did they go on trial?

Who brought then to trial?

Who spoke up against them?

What did they say in their defense?

What happened to the leaders at the end of the trial?