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Kampucija 1978

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2010 04 05 Pineapple 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 Pineapple Comments (0)

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. [...]

2010 03 28 Tong Reasathea Comments (1)

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 Pineapple 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 Pineapple 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 Pineapple Comments (13)

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 Pineapple Comments (12)

Casting the first stone: the ‘palace coup’ of August 1945

By the middle of 1945, it was becoming clear to anyone who cared to pay attention that Imperial Japan was doomed. With it, the status of those Khmer nationalists who had colluded with the Japanese in disarming the Vichy French administration became increasingly uncertain. Son Ngoc Thanh, who had returned from Japan early in 1945 [...]

2010 02 10 lb Comments (1)

Piglets and sloganeering in Kompong Speu

Another new post from another new author. As the Democratic Kampuchea side of things is already well covered here, I’m hoping to add some information on  the margins – the political context, the Sangkum, what came before and what developed afterwards, in an effort to look at the forces in opposition to which Democratic Kampuchea [...]

2010 02 06 lb Comments (8)

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 [...]

2010 02 05 Tong Reasathea Comments (5)