This, readers (and there are quite a few), will be the last post until we’re into the new year, and so far I think I’ve got enough encouragement to carry on with this small project, or historical hobby, in my spare time. I think it was a reviewer of Ben Kiernan’s comprehensive world study [...]
One of the distinctive features of Khmer Communism from the 1960s (rural insurgency and the preparation for all-out war) is that it was largely unexpressed to most people its proponents had control and influence over, except for those rank and file poor peasant cadres deemed reliable enough to enter some form of political education. [...]
The below photograph might be of interest to a few in light of the previous post. A portrait of guerilla leader Son Ngoc Minh, carried in a procession of party (KPRP) militants in 1952. I offer my apologies to those who use small monitors, with that annoying scrolling you have to do, left [...]
Though sensitive and proud Pol Potists would perhaps be loath to admit it to themselves, when it comes to a modernising influence on Cambodian politics, lets look at this, the beginning of the chapter The Nature of the Cambodian Revolution, taken from Michael Vickery’s important 1984 book Cambodia 1975-1982, dismissed by lazy people as “denial” [...]
