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Kampucija 1978

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2010 04 05 Stuff Comments (1)

The Rabbit Bomb Decree

Revealing Lon Nol’s departure from reality at the time of the Cambodian Civil War … From William Harben’s memoirs: I carried “Mad Dog” Bolin’s 9 mm automatic under the seat. In the event that any Khmer Rouge soldiers blocked the road and tried to flag me down, I planned to abandon the car, dive into [...]

2010 04 03 Stuff Comments (0)

Dinner with Pol Pot: Gunnar Bergström and Friends, August 1978

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 [...]

2010 03 26 Stuff Comments (3)

The 1978 Democratic Kampuchean ‘Black Paper’

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 [...]

2010 03 24 Stuff Comments (2)

Les Actualités Cambodgiennes

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 [...]

2010 03 15 Stuff Comments (13)

Until the Next Hello

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 Cholpon [...]

2010 02 17 Off-Topic Stuff Comments (17)

Indochina and the Federation Idea: The Comintern, War and the Roots of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea

Part One The above picture, as terribly upsetting as it is, with the innocent 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. After having a [...]

2010 02 16 Stuff Comments (12)

Between Town and Country

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 haven’t been lucky [...]

2010 02 02 Stuff Comments (4)

National Anthem of Democratic Kampuchea

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 [...]

2010 01 25 Stuff Comments (8)

Encirclement of Phnom Penh

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 [...]

2010 01 18 Stuff Comments (19)