Cambodian+Genocide


 * The Definition of Genocide:**

"The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. N. (1944) [genos Greek: race, kin; cida, from caedere Latin: to cut, to kill]. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, declared that genocide was any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: //Source: http://www.cambodiangenocide.org/genocide.htm//
 * 1) Killing members of the group.
 * 2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
 * 3) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
 * 4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
 * 5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

//Image Source: http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia.html//


 * Click here to read a brief history of Cambodia, before, during, and after the genocide.**

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 * To watch segments of the movie, //The Killing Fields//, use these youtube links:**

New YorkTimes clip on Dith Pran [|click here]