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1966: We are Pure Gold, Monkey Dance, Golden Era – Jerk and Twist from the Gentle Land

Here’s an excerpt from the novel of Ros Chantrabot titled The Husband, Master of all his Wife’s Feelings, or Mchas bdey duong chet oun. Ros Chantrabot is the author of La Republique Khmere and other books, but there’s a small chance that there were two authors with the same name. The novel was published in [...]

Chinit River: Third Congress of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

1971, the Chinit River Congress. I took the part. There, it was stated that “Vietnam is a friend but with reservations” (or contradictions). This decision meant that Vietnam was not a real ally in the struggle, but also ambiguously not a foe too. We had to apply two lines, one of friendship and the other, [...]

Sex and Angkar

This is an important topic and it cannot be described by a single article. Therefore it is just the beginning of the story. The story about sexual politics of Democratic Kampuchea and sexual politics in the context of a contemporary Marxist thought. The sole reality about gender relationship in DK was that they were forced. [...]

New Post: Tong Reasathea

The offer to contribute to this blog dedicated to the history of Khmer Communism and the culmination of some of its tendencies in the state of Democratic Kampuchea, came to me unexpectedly, but it is probably something that I almost readily agreed upon, due to feelings of competence to do so. Democratic Kampuchea has occupied [...]