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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 of the [...]
