Cambodian Genocide Week 1

The Khmer Rouge was the nickname given to the:

• Nationalist Party of Cambodia

• Communist Party of Cambodia

• Anti-Intellectualist Party of Cambodia

• The Monarchy of Cambodia

In your upcoming Preliminary Research Assignment, you must include your rough work.

• True

• False

When is your Preliminary Research Paper Due?

• March 1st

• February 23rd

• Tonight at midnight

• February 16th

S-21 Tuol Sleng, what was described by David Chandler as the "nerve system" of Pol Pot's system of terror, was once a:

• Tennis Yard

• Mansion

• High School

• Dance Hall

The influential leftist organization "The Indochina Resource Cente" in Washington, with prominent intellectuals like Noam Chomsky:

• Advocated for the Khmer Rouge, and denied the genocide.

• Heavily criticized the Khmer Rouge, and valued survivor testimony.

• The reading never talked about this.

• Were indifferent and apathetic.

Vatthana Pholsena. “Life under Bombing in Southeastern Laos (1964-1973) Through the Accounts of Survivors in Sepon.” European Journal of East Asian Studies 9, no.2 (2010): 282.

• Vatthana Pholsena, "Life under Bombing," 282.

• Pholsena, "Life Under Bombing", East Asian Studies, (2010).

• Pholsena, "Life under Bombing," 282.

• Pholsena, "Life under Bombing."

• Khmer Rouge's soldiers that marched civillians out Phnom Penh were notable because they were:

• Mostly older peasants, older fathers and grandfathers.

• Young, with many close to 12 years old.

• Mostly women, which was uncommon.

• Not Cambodian citizens.

Peter Maguire, Facing Death in Cambodia. (Columbia University Press, 2005), 36.

• Facing Death in Cambodia, 36.

• Peter, Facing Death in Cambodia, 36.

• Maguire, Facing Death in Cambodia, 36.

• Peter Maguire, Facing Death in Cambodia. (Columbia University Press, 2005)