Based on the Khmer Rouge’s ideology, everyone was equal, yet they neglectfully failed to factor into their ideology that children, the ill, and elderly adults are not equal to healthy adults. People in the camps were forced to grow food that they themselves couldn't eat; food was sent to work and training camps, thus contradicting their ideology. The differentiation of the amounts of food that the Cambodian people were given led to the starvation of many. Instances like these are examples of the fundamental problems that existed in the Khmer Rouge’s ideology, which caused the deaths of many Cambodians. This demonstrates something inherently wrong with Communism because in most stances with Communism they introduce the idea that everyone is equal but certain people always end up having an unfair advantage like in the case of the Khmer Rouge that I stated before were the soldiers and the people in the work camps had a wider variety of food and also the locations where they were established they ate from the food carts that the people from Loung’s camp where she was with her family. Their Communist ideology of being equal will never work due to the fact that the people at the top and their soldiers will never voluntarily choose to live the same as citizens. The international community should have shown any type of sympathy towards Cambodia; they saw and heard thousands of people who were being starved and murdered, and they decided that they were not interested in saving thousands of women, men, and children. National sovereignty when the lives of thousands of innocent people are being threatened, because when that happens, it is not a question of whether a country is neutral or not; it's a question of whether one has compassion for the lives of others. No suffering is tolerable to bring a “better society” because, in order to bring a “better society,” suffering would not be part of it. What should happen when it is clear that a struggle for change is making society worse is intervention from a country that has the resources to help, because that means that they have the resources to make sure that the country is taken care of.
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