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Thesis title:
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ANGKOR (12th CENTURY TO 15th CENTURY)

Author:
Ms. Patmawan Buranamat

Thesis advisor:
Dr. Sunait Chutintaranond

MA in Southeast Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2004

Keywords:
ANGKOR, FALL, CIVILIZATION, FACTOR(S), ADMINISTRATION

Abstract:
The study of the factors of the decline of Angkor to date has given us four main causes that triggered the fall: the invasion of the Siamese, the failure of the elaborate hydraulic system which caused the inability to maintain the human resource management, the change of the belief system due to the arrival of Theravada Buddhism, and the approaching of intense maritime trade initiated by Sung Dynasty.
However, there has been little study focusing on the internal cause that allowed those immediate causes to trigger the abandonment of the city, namely the administrative system that had always been the underlying factor in the dynamic of changes in Angkor. This thesis will look at the role of the administrative system in the decline of the Angkorian kingdom (12th – 15th Century.)

Thesis title:
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE “NEW PEOPLE” DURING THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME AND ITS EFFECT ON THEIR LIVES IN THE PRESENT TIME

Author:
Mr. Ly Vanna

Thesis advisor:
Dr. Klairung Amratisha

MA in Southeast Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2004

Keywords:
“NEW PEOPLE”, KHMER ROUGE

Abstract:
“New people”, or those Cambodians evacuated from the cities into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, are very important persons in Cambodian society today. They are the main human resource for Cambodia, they are the leaders in the offices and they are parents of the young generation. Unfortunately, they experienced many suffering events under the Khmer Rouge regime and that affects their lives very much today.
This thesis examines the suffering of new people under the Khmer Rouge regime and how their suffering affects their lives today.

New people experienced execution, starvation, overwork, torture, discrimination, the threat of being kill, loss of their relatives and friends, loss of their property, and loss of their opportunities. The study finds that the new people who are survivors still remember, recall, and have nightmares of the suffering events they experienced, and they feel scare and angry when they see something related to their experiences. All these pictures in their memories affect their personal lives and their family lives very much.

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