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The Khmer Krom People
The Khmer Krom people are the inhabitants of the South Eastern parts of Cambodia and Vietnam, where they are an ethnic minority, in the area that makes up the delta of the Mekong River. There are no less than eight million Khmer Krom people around the world; most of them living in different parts of [...]
Khmer Rouge – Communist Party that ruled in Cambodia for four years
Khmer Rouge ruled in Cambodia for only four short years, but its impact on the Cambodian society was disastrous. Khmer Rouge was led by a man named Pol Pot to begin with and was in power from 1975 to 1979. In the four years that the Khmer Rouge was in power, over twenty percent of [...]
Khmer Rouge Ruling – Pol Pot’s influence on the Cambodian way of life
The cruel ruling of Khmer Rouge affected the Cambodian way of life for decades. While Khmer Rouge only ruled in Cambodia for less than four years, Cambodia is just now beginning to fully recover from their terrible actions. The Khmer Rouge has scared many citizens of Cambodia for life because of what they did. When [...]
How Pol Pot came to power – Interesting facts on how Pol Pot came to lead Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot started out started out the same as the rest of us, and he was born in 1928 in Kampong Thum Province in Cambodia. He went to technical high school in the capital, Phnom Penh. Then in 1949 he went to study electronics in Paris. It was Paris where he joined the French Communist [...]
Culture of Khmer Rouge – What they believed and why they did the Awful things they did
Khmer Rouge was headed by Pol Pot from the time of creation in 1963 until his death in 1998. Khmer Rouge was a section of the Communists Party of Kampuchea. From 1975 until 1979 Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia and caused great devastation among the Cambodian population. Khmer Rouge is responsible for the mass Cambodian [...]
The Geography of Cambodia
Cambodia is located in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese peninsula. On the North side it is bordered by Laos, and Thailand borders its Northwestern side, while to its South and Southeast side it is bordered by Vietnam. Its Southwest side is the coastline to the Gulf of Siam and Thailand. The country has a total [...]
