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Propaganda In First They Killed My Father

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In my opinion, Picture 2 most relates to the book First They Killed My Father. Picture 2 depicts a child holding a gun, being played like a puppet, symbolizing the brainwashing that the Angkar did to child soldiers at camps. In the chapter entitled “Child Soldiers” Loung hears propaganda supporting the Angkar such as, “The Youns hate you. They want to come to take away the Khmer’s treasures, including you…With my fist raised I scream the obligatory, ‘Angkars!’”(Ung, 132). Propaganda is an element of brainwashing used by the Angkar that brodcasted information that supported the vision of the Khmer Rouge. This was key to gaining control of children because children are gullible and eventually beleive what they hear. Loung is a victim to brainwashing
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