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Current Totalitarian/Authoritarian Leaders
- I. Pol Pot-Cambodia
- A. Brief History since 1950
- 1. Cambodia was ruled by the French during the
1950s. - 2. Vietnam War- Cambodia was directly
influenced by the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese
soldiers would use the jungles of Cambodia to
launch raids into South Vietnam through the Ho
Chi Minh Trail.
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- 3. On April 29th, 1970 the U.S. bombed Vietcong
positions in Cambodia which were followed by U.S.
troops. - 4. Lon Nol- This man was backed by the U.S. and
ruled from 1970-1975. Many Cambodians hated his
regime/government because it had become corrupt.
Cambodians then started supporting the Communist
rebels known as the Khmer Rouge.
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- 5. In 1975, Pol Pot enters the capital of Phnom
Penh. Pol Pot immediately seizes power and
orders everyone out of the city.
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- B. Methods of Control
- 1. Separating Families- Pol Pot would send family
members to various regions of Cambodia. Anka
or the government was to be their family. - 2.Arranged Marriages-The Khmer Rouge would decide
who you would marry. - 3. Anti-Western Propaganda- Anything from the
U.S. or Europe was evil. T.V.s, refrigerators,
even glasses were banned.
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- 4. Torture-Pol Pot would torture individuals in
order to put fear into his people. - 5. Starting from year zero- Pol Pot wanted to
start from the scratch so anyone that was an
adult was at risk of being executed by the youth
who were not corrupted yet.
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- C. Cambodia after Pol Pot
- 1. In 1979, the Vietnamese invade Cambodia and
defeat the Khmer Rouge. - 2. In 1991, Vietnam relinquished control and
Cambodia held elections under a United Nations
mandate. - 3. On April 15th, 1998 Pol Pot died and brought
a virtual end to the Khmer Rouge. - 4. Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge soldier is now
the president.
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- D. Effects
- 1. Between 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians were
killed. - 2. A massive wave of Cambodian immigrants come
to the U.S. - 3. Cambodia lacks an educated society. Pol Pot
killed anyone who was educated or appeared to be
Western.
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- 4. Cambodia is now one of the poorest countries
in the world - 5. Cambodia is littered with land mines and maim
hundreds of people every day.
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- II. Saddam Hussein-Iraq
- A. Early Life
- 1. Orphaned as a child and then was physically
abused as a child. - 2. Shot a man at the age of 10 years old.
- 3. Idolized his uncle who encouraged him to join
the radical Baath Party. - 4. Fled to Egypt after a failed assassination
attempt of General Kassem.
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- B. Saddam in Power
- 1. In 1979, Saddam comes to power after he
forces Abu Bakr (The Iraqi president at the time)
to relinquish power. - 2. In 1980, Saddam attacks Iran and leads Iraq
to a mutual slaughter. 500,000 Iraqi soldiers
die. - 3. In 1988, Iraq and Iran agree to a seize fire.
Iraq is left bankrupt.
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- 4. In 1990, Saddam invades Kuwait.
- a. George Bush rallies the U.S. and other
foreign governments to defeat Saddam in the
Persian Gulf War. - Over 20,000 animals are destroyed after Saddam
set fire to Kuwaits oil fields - Iraq loses approximately 100,000 soldiers.
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- C. Methods of Control
- 1. Show Trials-Saddam is notorious for executing
people in public. - 2. Persecution of ethnic groups- In order to
suppress the Kurds in Northern Iraq and the
Shiites in Southern Iraq, Saddam has used
chemical weapons on his own people. - 3. Censorship/Propaganda-
- Saddam controls all forms of media T.V.,radio,
film, newspapers, etc.
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