Rationale:
This is a topic that I am deeply concerned with. I aim to investigate and conduct a study on Khmer Rouge's origins and impacts. This is one of the most significant regime in South East Asia's history, and is fairly recent as it was just 40 years ago. The Khmer Rouge left major impacts on the social aspect of Cambodia, yet very few people are aware of this crime against humanity.
I also found the Khmer Rouge extremely interesting in how they model their regime after other ruling systems that used methods to instill fear, eliminate opposition and promote genocides to control people. The Khmer Rouge genocide tend to share similar characteristics with the Holocaust or Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign.
Through my project, I hope to educate others about this topic, to encourage them to think critically for themselves to understand the mistakes made in history so that they can avoid making the same mistakes.
This is a topic that I am deeply concerned with. I aim to investigate and conduct a study on Khmer Rouge's origins and impacts. This is one of the most significant regime in South East Asia's history, and is fairly recent as it was just 40 years ago. The Khmer Rouge left major impacts on the social aspect of Cambodia, yet very few people are aware of this crime against humanity.
I also found the Khmer Rouge extremely interesting in how they model their regime after other ruling systems that used methods to instill fear, eliminate opposition and promote genocides to control people. The Khmer Rouge genocide tend to share similar characteristics with the Holocaust or Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign.
Through my project, I hope to educate others about this topic, to encourage them to think critically for themselves to understand the mistakes made in history so that they can avoid making the same mistakes.