This is an important topic and it cannot be described by a single article. Therefore it is just the beginning of the story. The story about sexual politics of Democratic Kampuchea and sexual politics in the context of a contemporary Marxist thought. The sole reality about gender relationship in DK was that they were forced. [...]
Seen on this blog before, but you can download the full-size image here. A cover of Swedish magazine Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, this particular issue including coverage of an unofficial friendship delegation that went to Democratic Kampuchea on a fourteen day trip in August 1978. The visitors were even honoured by a dinner hosted by Comrade [...]
There are some milestones for Khmer Communism history nerds. For example, there is the cashing in by the maquisards, on the large peasant rebellion which erupted at Samlaut against Lon Nol forces on April 2 1967, the most serious violent expression of popular discontent since the anti-French rebellion in the 1880s. There is the forming [...]
This is just some more filler, until I get back into the swing of things. Presented below is some film from the Khmer Republic period, from the year 1974 I think. Firstly, it shows government relief given to the refugees from the Khmer Rouge siege of the old Royal capital Oudong. Lon Nol appears after [...]
