2. 3. 4. CLASSIFICATION Definition:Cambodia:All cultures have
categories to distinguish people into us and them by ethnicity,
race, religion or nationality; German an Jew, Hutu and Tutsi.
Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, such as Rwanda and
Burundi, are most likely to have genocide.The resistance of Pol Pot
classified people by; intellectuals, educated people,
professionals, monks, religious enthusiasts, Buddhists, Muslims,
Christians, ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai or of any of those
ancestry. 5. What is symbolization?Cambodia:We give names or other
symbols to the classifications. We name people Jews or Gypsies, or
distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply the symbols to
members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universal
human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to
the next stage, dehumanization. When combined with hatred, symbols
may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups.The blue
scarf was the yellow star, which symbolizes the classification made
by the Khmer Rouge Central Committee and imposed by its own cadres
in Phnom Penh.Symbolization 6. Definition:Cambodia:One group denies
the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with
animals, vermin. Insects or disease. Dehumanization overcomes the
normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate
propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim
group.Pol Pot tortured his victims if he felt like it, and killed
if they were sick or disabled. He had labor camps for people who
could work on farms. He treated them like dogs, fed them little,
and just made them suffer so much. It made no difference to the
Khmer Rouge whether they were dead or alive. He used various
torture techniques for little to no reason 7. Organization
Definition:Cambodia:Genocide is always organized, usually by the
state, though sometimes informally (Hindu mobs led by local RSS
militants) or by terrorist groups. Special army units or militias
are often trained and armed. Plans are made for genocidal
killings.Pol Pot was giving orders to the troops and commanding.
Khmer Rouge also helped Pol Pot command troops and plan everything
including the socialist program to reconstruct the way Cambodia was
"agrarian socialist philosophy"Pol Pot 8. Definition: Extremists
drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing
propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction.
Extremist terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing
the center.Cambodia: It was common for people to get shot who were
speaking a foreign language, wearing glasses( due to the people
thought that if people were wearing glasses that they were being
educated), smiling or crying. Cities were raided and people
relocated to communal farms. Most people were left to starve,
dehydrate or work to death. International organizations offered aid
but the government refused assistance. 9. Preparatio n Definition:
Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or
religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim
groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. They are often
segregated into ghettoes, forced into concentration camps, or
confined to a famine-struck region and starved.Cambodia: Religion
was banned so leading Buddhist, monks and Christian missionaries
were killed. The United States distributed the guns to Cambodian
people. In the 1980s, the U.S. and U.K. instead offered financial
and military support to the Khmer Rouge forces in exile, who had
now sworn opposition to Vietnam and communism. The government
attempted to suppress the communist and Vietnamese presence. People
were given a blue scarf to wear in the eastern part of Cambodia.
Some people were taken to killing fields. 10. EXTERMINATION
Extermination begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally
called "genocide." It is "extermination" to the killers because
they do not believe their victims to be fully human. When it is
sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work with militias
to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge
killings by groups against each other, creating the downward
whirlpool-like cycle of bilateral genocide (as in Burundi).The
population was put to work as laborers in one federation of
collective farms. Anyone in opposition was killed. Anyone refusing
to leave their home, didn't go fast enough, or disobeyed were
killed. Professional citizens (doctors, lawyers, teachers,
politicians, etc.) were killed. Army was killed. All monks and
approximately 8,000 Christians were murderedThere were approx.
2,000,000 deaths. 11. Denial Definition: Denial is the eighth stage
that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators
of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up
the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence
andThe campaign to end genocide supports an international tribunal
to try the Khmer Rouge Promotes U.S. signature and ratification of
the treaty creating an international criminal court.intimidate the
witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often
blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of
the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by
force, when they flee into exile. There they remain with impunity,
like Pol Pot or Idi Amin, unless they are captured and a tribunal
is established to try them.The US tried to cover it up. The US and
Cambodians were at a secret war with each other.
