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2023 Report on Forcibly Displaced People
UNHCR’s Global Trends report presents the latest official statistics on forcibly displaced people worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced and stateless people. The graph illustrates the massive increase since 2014, and identifies displaced populations by their respective legal categories.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 4
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Heang Chhun Interview: Constrained Choices
In this clip, the author’s father considers the importance of context and constrained choices to the actions he and others took during that time. Moving away from inflexible measures of right and wrong, he makes space for a more complete understanding of different experiences of violence.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Heang Chhun Interview: Threat of Starvation
In this clip, the author’s father transitions from discussing the strict rationing of food and the threat of starvation during the Cambodian Genocide to talking about the clandestine practice of “stealing” he utilized in order to survive.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Heang Chhun Interview: Surveillance and Fear
This clip is excerpted from an oral history interview with the author’s father, Heang Chhun, conducted in 2009. In this discussion of surveillance and fear during the Cambodian Genocide, he explains the importance and value of silence to survival.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Khmer Rouge Uniforms
Khmer Rouge uniforms on display at the museum of Choeung Ek, near Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The shapeless, black, gender-neutral clothes were inspired by peasant garb and were required for men, women, and children enrolled in Khmer Rouge militias.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Democratic Kampuchea’s Administrative and Political Geography
This map was first published by Democratic Kampuchea’s Ministry of Education in a 1977 Khmer Rouge text that described the regime’s administrative and political geography for a level-2 elementary class.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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National Anthem of Democratic Kampuchea
“Dap Prampi Mesa Moha Chokchey” was proclaimed the national anthem of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge on January 5, 1976. Although some claim that Pol Pot himself might have written the piece, its origins remain unknown.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
The Communist leader Pol Pot (far left) and members of the Khmer Rouge in May, 1979. The regime, defined by militarism, racism, and territorial expansion, was responsible for the horrific Cambodian Holocaust that claimed the lives of up to two million people.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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Administrative Zones for Democratic Kampuchea
After the Lon Nol coup of 1970, during the Cambodian Civil War, the Khmer Rouge divided the country into geographic zones. These zones would become administrative divisions during the period of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
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We Charge Genocide
Drawing on the UN Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, or religious group,” We Charge Genocide (1951) laid out a meticulously researched case in 237 pages.
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Cambodian Americans, Module 3
