There won’t be another post for a bit, as from next week I’ll be swapping the shop floor for the cold shores of lake Issyk-Kul. Soon arriving at what was once a busy resort town where small-time Soviet apparatchiks, from the Central Asian Socialist Republics, took summer vacations at the various sanatoria dotted around [...]
Part One
The above picture, as terribly upsetting as it is, with the innocent newborn child incapable of comprehending, nor perhaps being instinctively aware of the mortal danger in which its mother finds herself, is just one of the many mugshots taken for the files of the Democratic Kampuchean security service, the Santebal. [...]
Here’s some more film footage below, taken from a French documentary on Democratic Kampuchea. I’m unsure as to its content though, regarding the footage used. Identifying what is exactly official government footage and that which was filmed during the visit made by Yugoslav journalists, including Nikola Vitorovic, in 1978. You see, I [...]
Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey
Glorious April 17
(Non-versified translation)
Bright red blood, which covers the towns and plains
Of Kampuchea, our motherland,
Sublime blood of workers and peasants,
Sublime blood of revolutionary men and women fighters!
The blood changes into unrelenting hatred
And resolute struggle,
For on April 17, under the flag of revolution
It frees us from slavery!
Long live, long live glorious April [...]
The slow death of a shrinking republic.
From the 15th of August 1973 forward, both foreign and Khmer observers witnessed the growing war between the Khmer themselves, that is between the FANK of the Khmer Republic and the forces of the Khmer Communists. The land, the high seas, the rivers and lakes, the skies clear [...]
One of us must kill thirty Vietnamese … So far, we have succeeded in implementing this slogan of one against thirty … We need only two million troops to crush the fifty million Vietnamese, and we would still have six million people left.
Radio Phnom Penh broadcast, 10 May 1978
Well, the DK government’s confidence was severely [...]
One day he took me out to eat. When we got to the market, he told me to order anything I liked. I ordered duck. When I finished eating it, he asked me, “Was it good?” And I said, “Yes, very good,” His face darkened and he levelled a finger at me. “You ought to [...]
This is just a bit of filler until new and hopefully better posts appear in this New Year. Being the nerd that I am, I own several old copies of publications which some might say border on the kitsch, although unintentionally. Below are snippets taken from the second of three September 1976 editions [...]
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. [...]
