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 [...]
Some amazing scans from Sisamouth’s blog.
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 [...]
Footage pieced together from different sources. Features teenage male and female KPNLAF (Khmer Rouge) soldiers preparing to attack supply boats along the Mekong. There are also staged battle scenes between Khmer Rouge and Lon Nol troops, the latter being defeated and captured.
The Khmer Communists as I understand it, gained some interpretation of Communism, or rather its Bolshevised version, particularly its Asian variant called Maoism. Over the years there has been the view that the Cambodian Revolution was ‘Maoism writ large,’ and that its most extreme aspects, particularly a Communist refocusing on challenging the differences between the [...]
A few days ago I had a nerdy online argument (as you do) over the nature of Khmer Communist aims, as understood by the Pol Pot group, and what was supposed to have happened in Democratic Kampuchea under their leadership. Not that it means much, but I believe that despite seeming absurdities and an overriding [...]
The above photograph was taken in 1974, and shows poor peasant soldiers belonging to an all-female Khmer Rouge battalion. Marching in Indian File down a dusty road in their Chinese army caps and checked krama, they were possibly on their way to help lay siege to the old royal capital, Oudong. These women first came [...]
