Chinese-Vietnamese antagonism I think plays part in many of these relationships. Chinese played the same role as Jews played in Russia and Europe and even after revolution in Cambodia nothing changed in terms of the elites. Three revolutions and some people managed to take posts in every regime that was in power. In “Stay alive my son” author shows Chinese who dealt with rice vs. gold while people were starving in KR new people camp. There’s less known resolution of PRK in the middle of 80-s which prohibited Chinese to live in Phnom Penh. Lon Nol struggled Chinese by forcing them to change shop signs in Khmer. In Russia some people survived through Tsar and through communist repressions of 20-s. Isn’t it strange? Don’t call me chauvinist but I have to expose later Chinese role in SEA society, which also promotes hate and chauvinsm like those yellow shirts in Thailand to Khmers and Cambodia. They recently send 4000 Hmongs back to Laos. They are without hearts these people, their God is money, like wrote Marx.

Concerning the movie, I think this is interesting trend, trend which is truly third worldist trend, defying own nationial traditions. My case is the same where’s white married to Asian. I observe trend like this, I even have an article in Russian which I should translate to English, about interracial marriages. I know some people who married interracially, interesting there’s some Jews who seem to defy their traditions too. I mentioned French traditionalist Guenon who married Egyptian and completely changed his lifestyle to that of Egyptian. His deed is a blueprint to me, change the First world for a Third World.

I see that whoever uploaded this video appears to be some Khmer chauvinist weirdo with a dislike of the Vietnamese. There is the use of the word Yuon. The title of the video also suggests this guy has a strange take on the development of Khmer Communism.

The Killing Fields is cringe-worthy in places. And the characterisation of Schanberg is annoying. There is, however, a short harrowing moment in a scene of the DK period, where a young peasant girl checks the hands of a worker in a rice paddy, and then points him out for elimination; her older male companions then drag the hapless fellow off to his death with a plastic bag pulled tightly over his head. So quickly and without question is he snuffed out. But the village school lesson given by Angkar, where a cadre with piece of chalk in hand, urges a child to cross out a stick man family on a blackboard, made me want to groan. I would like to see a new film made about the Cambodia of this period, which perhaps after some decent research has been done, fictionalises the lives of ordinary peasant refugees and their experiences of fleeing their villages, rather than displaying the didactic worthiness and moral outrage grandstanding of foreign journalists. Something that also includes the fall of Phnom Penh, and the antics of the Monatio would be interesting.

This sweet new film on contemporary Cambodia seems to avoid cliche and didacticism, even though it’s a take on East meets West, middle class white boy meets impoverished Khmer girl. Mind you my life has recently consisted of Moscow-bound working class white boy meets female member of the reconstituted post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan intelligentsia! The finished cut has dialogue in poorly-used Russian, so it might need to be dubbed over or subtitled for other markets.

In case if nobody saw this movie. Much more realistic than Killing Fields piece of crap. It’s Vietnamese production and it’s reek of Soviet influence, even the music is similar crappy tunes of contemporary Russian movies. Anyways, just in case you didn’t see it.

From about 4:30 mins into this clip:

Those prices that you mentioned are pretty high! I bought many of my books initially in Phnom Penh so I dealt with copies. The most expensive was a Khieu Samphan book, which I payed 7 bucks.

I understand your family circumstances, mine were pretty much the same, high debts, costs of sponsorship and stuff with the exception that mine are over, heh. It’s over for a year or so. Canadian government is nice when you try to sponsor your family member, they don’t hold your back even if you don’t have any money.

I could try and write to a few people, particularly Short, but perhaps he wouldn’t be interested in dealing with a small-town prole with an amateur interest in Southeast Asian Communism. Although correspondence with such people might interesting enough to post to this blog too.

I think I still have a couple of Margaret Slocombe journal papers with me, They’re either on my external hard drive, or on my old computer, which is now in landfill. I’ll have to check. One of them is an interesting look at the PRK’s K-5 Plan to defend and consolidate new government control after the DK overthrow, while attempting to destroy the regrouped Khmer Rouge forces and their former enemies turned allies. Another is on a small peasant rebellion against Khmer Rouge-rule in Chikreng during 1977.

I’ll be out of my country for some time in February and possibly all of March. I have a partner and young boy to care for: she is not working at the moment, so need to save money. I might not be able to scan much of what I have until this family priority is met first. Responsibility demands I work, like most other people having to deal with the mundaneness of life. One day, though, I will be in Cholpon-Ata on a long-term study and work basis. What a place to live with your family! On the shores of lake Issyk-Kul, the Tien Shan mountains in the distance. My dream will become reality.

I was going to write an answer earlier but it got deleted, so my list would be quite hard to get items I guess:)

Y Phandara, Retour a Phnom Penh

Ros Chantrabot, La Republique Khmer

In Sopheap, Khieu Samphan aggrandi et reel, unpubl. manuscript ( possession of P. Short)

Serge Thion and Ben Kiernan, Khmer Rouges! I would love too see it too from lb. if possible.

Nuon Chea provided Nate Thayer with a manuscript of handwritten history of CPK

Tep Kunnal- 9 notebooks with Pol Pot memoirs- possession of Chandler? 0r Heder.

Marie A.Martin, Le Mal Cambodgien

Francois Debre, Revolution de la Foret

Some books I see on Amazon but in range from 50 and up, that’s bullshit. Some are simply unavailable, there’s an option of interlibrary loan in my library. In January I will go to check how it works, maybe it would be actually cheaper get the book from the other libraries than to buy for such prices.