Essays Tagged: "Phnom Penh"
Pol Pot.
th Sar on between January and May on the 25th of a month, 1925, in an unknown village just north of Phnom Penh, he was raised as a normal child. However, his academic pursuits were less than satisfyin ... ng seventy-eight thousand. Through April 17 a bloody war was fought until the ICP finally overthrew Phnom Penh. The entire city, and most others in Cambodia as well, were evacuated (evicted) to the co ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The Khmer Rouge.
bodia)Loung Ung is one of the seven children in the Ung family. She was born in 1970 in the town of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is the sixth of the seven kids. Loung has one younger sister name Geak and ... through. On April 17 truck loads of men wearing black outfits and red sashes came into the town of Phnom Penh. When her pa told her to come in side a pack all the things she had and that they were le ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
A Mock letter to a cousin in Cambodia in the 1970's, describing the immigrant experience in Australia
ment, with the Khmer Rouge dominating, supported by the North Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge then took Phnom Penh and established Democratic Kampuchea.It was just after the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh th ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Cambodia: killing fields
ugh the bodies floating in the river. A police official at this ferry sixty kilometers southeast of Phnom Penh said he counted 400 bodies during the morning. Still the bodies came, and the bodies coul ... (Waiting 21). On April 17th 1975, the Khmer Rouge armies defeated the Lon Nol regime and conquered Phnom Penh and Cambodia's new name was declared Democratic Kampuchea (DK)."In an effort to rebuild t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
Cambodia
me to visit. Chat Preah Nengkal, the Royal Ploughing Festival, takes place near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh in early May. The Khmer calendar's most important festival is Bon Om Tuk, celebrating the ... s Bon Om Tuk, celebrating the end of the wet season in early November - it's the best time to visit Phnom Penh or Siem Reap. Banks, ministries and embassies are closed during all public holidays and f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Little brother
of property. "No one owns anything anymore," is one example of this. Another example is the King in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh was ruled by the government. Now due to the war, a young boy, is now known as ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The History of Cambodia
as the centre of the ancient kingdom of the Khmer, and its capital was Angkor. The capital today is Phnom Penh. In 1953 Cambodia gained independence after nearly 100 years of French rule. In the 1960s ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Cambodias Best-Known Literature Culture Hero
as born in the eleventh of March 1883 in Kampong Speu province (Kampong Speu is located in North of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, about 48 kilometres). He was from agrarian family. His mother's ... t monastery named Pothiprek, located in Kandal Provice (Kandal Provinnce is located in the south of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, about 10 kilometres) so that he could be instructed Khmer liter ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
To what extent was the vision of Cambodia underpinned by the ideal of a class based revolution and to what extent was it based on nationalist xenophobia?
In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh to bring an end to five years of civil war, invasions and bombardment and mark the beginn ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Cambodia & Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge
f disloyalty amongst his followers. Around 20,000 victims were sent to an old school in a suburb of Phnom Penh, and this was the Khmer Rouge's main concentration camp. To be sent there meant almost ce ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
How were Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge able to maintain power in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979?
s most infamous form of terror was his forced evacuation of an estimated two million inhabitants of Phnom Penh into the countryside at gunpoint. Pol Pot proclaimed in April 1975 to the people, "You mu ... and eliminate opposition. Pol Pot's evacuation of an estimated two million people from the city of Phnom Penh to the fields of Cambodia was necessary not only to effectively transform Cambodia into a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
friendship
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Benefits of Khmer traditional Medicines
rre (Menispermaceae), according to 2nd symposium of professor CHENG Sun Kaing, faculty of Pharmacy, Phnom Penh, which is conducted on 6th -- 8th December 2010, Hanoi. The traditional medicines can sav ... hmer Traditional Medicine" by Pr. CHENG Sun Kaing, Professor of Pharmacognosy (Faculty of Pharmacy, Phnom Penh ) Co-Director of the Joint Laboratory of Phytochemistry USS -IRPFhttp://www.univ-sante.ed ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
little brother
of property. "No one owns anything anymore," is one example of this. Another example is the King in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh was ruled by the government. Now due to the war, a young boy, is now known as ... uge, and finding at last a chance for a new life in a distant country. Having passed through modern Phnom Penh and ancient Angkor Wat and finding both equally haunted, Vithy reaches Thailand. There, h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Khhmer Rouge
ly wealth for the time. At the age of 10 Pol Pot began his formal education in a Catholic school in Phnom Pen, living with his cousin at the time. In 1947, Pol Pot gained admission to an exclusive sch ... lt Pol Pot attempted another career path, switching to a technical school in 'Russey Keo', north of Phnom Penh. Here he qualified for a scholarship for technical studies in France, choosing to study r ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies