How is it possible that genocide keeps repeating itself in different places throughout the world.
Genocide has happened in many places such as cambodia and in Europe. Even though the reasons for genocide are different, the way victims were treated can be similar.
The Purpose for Pol Pot’s persecution of the cambodia people was to form a communist peasant fa
rming society. Pol Pots wanted to create a organization inspired by Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution. On the other hand, Hitler blamed the Jews for cheating the Germans and their families. He also wanted to form an raryan race.
The victims in cambodia and the Holocaust were treated similar by their persecutions, There were many similarities between cambodia and Holocaust regarding how the victims were treated. In cambodia the victims were, Usually eating one tin of rice. The Jew’s were givin “Bread soup and black coffee. The people in both Cambodia and the Holocaust were drying from overwork, mahlnatrition and disease.
Another similarity is Cambodia’s persecutions used violence to maintain control. In the passage it stated, “Anyone who was suspected of disloyalty was beaten or bludgeoned with an ax” During the Holocaust the Nazi soldiers also used violence to maintain control.
Unfortunately, genocide has happend throughout history. What happen in Cambodia and the Holocaust were just two important examples out of many. Hopefully soon it can come to an end, If we learn from our past, maybe we can change our future.
By : Giovanni Pabon :)
