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HOMEWORK 

Modern Genocides Guided Notes

 

Pol Pot and Cambodia

 n      After the Vietnam War, __________________took control in Cambodia and declared it to be Year Zero,  He emptied the _____________, banned __________ and ______________________, closed schools and forbade all ____________, books and sanitation for regular civilians.

 n      The ________________ were the only people allowed technology, sanitation and other necessities of life.  All others were forced into the jungle to return to a __________________ life.  If anyone disobeyed, they were _________ on the spot or ____________ for further torture.

 n      “_____________________________________________________.”  Pol Pot.

n      Millions starved in the jungles while thousands were outright murdered for attempting any escape from the Khmer Rouge’s rule.

n      Cambodia falls into a civil war that lasts from _______ to __________.

n      The book and later the movie “The Killing Fields” record the atrocities of Pol Pot and his brutal regime.

  

What happened to “enemies” of the Khmer Rouge?

 

What happens to Pol Pot after his capture?

  

Rwanda and the Hutu Revolution

 ·        For decades the _________________________ tribes lived in harmony in Rwanda.

·        When _____________ Colonists arrive at the turn of the century, they make a distinction between dark Africans (who they called ________) and lighter skinned Africans  (which they called _________).

·        On April 6th 1994 the Presidents of _____________ and ___________ are killed when their plane is shot out of the sky by Hutu rebels extremists.

·        This sets off a terrible campaign by the ________________ to commit genocide to destroy all non-Rwandans (Meaning Tutsi minorities and Hutus).

 

  • No place is safe as hundreds of thousands of ________ are systematically __________ by the Rwandan Government.