Two days ago, as the first set-piece trial backed by the UN came to an end, a former member of the Khmer Communist Party’s security service, the Santebal, Kaing Kek Iev alias Comrade Duch, was sentenced for his part in the torture and execution of thousands of men, women and children while head of the [...]
retrouver ce média sur www.ina.fr That’s right, what you’ve all been waiting for. The rubbish English translation of Long Live the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea! Pol Pot’s tedious but revealing 1977 speech in the Stalinist vulgate, will up on the site soon. Scanning, scanning and yet more scanning has made me [...]
And in the wake of the 1967 Samlaut Rebellion, we should add headless peasants too, don’t forget.
Yikes. Maybe there is a Pineapple’s Cupboard for me after all. My future line of research probably won’t bring in the pennies though, sadly.
Much has been sympathetically written about a capital city under siege. A situation created by an American military exit strategy from Indochina and a ‘bomb panacea’ which only helped to enlarge a rural insurgency from a few hundred ragtag rebels into an army sixty thousand strong, and which saw the Republican government become totally dependent [...]
