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Comment on Until the Next Hello by Tong Reasathea

Tong Reasathea — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:49:02 +0000

Pol Pot’s little red book

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L22O9065

Comment on Indochina and the Federation Idea: The Comintern, War and the Roots of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea by Tong Reasathea

Tong Reasathea — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:55:08 +0000

Sek Say (known as Sek Sothy) was the oldest
daughter in her family. Her father, Sek Sat, (known
as Sek Prak) and her mother, Chan Kimsron (known
as Sang) began serving the revolution before the
Khmer Rouge won complete control of the country.
When the Khmer Rouge defeated the Khmer Republic
on April 17, 1975, they named their regime
“Democratic Kampuchea.” Sek Sat, Say’s father,
worked as a secretary in Region 25 and Chan
Kimsron, her mother, was the chief of a textile factory.
In May of 1978 Prak, his wife and his 1 year-old son were arrested and sent to Office 21 by Angkar. They
were all later executed. Say, her sister and all of her
relatives who maintained relations with her parents
were sent for re-education at the office in Chrey
Opnev. Many of her father’s relatives were permitted
to go back to their hometowns.

The rest of the story in
First Quarter 2008, 30 YEARS LATER.

Comment on Indochina and the Federation Idea: The Comintern, War and the Roots of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea by Tong Reasathea

Tong Reasathea — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:48:59 +0000

Comment on Until the Next Hello by Tong Reasathea

Tong Reasathea — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:21:55 +0000

Two more books, my wife helped me to scan Beyond the horizon, hopefully she can scan The Little Red Book of Pol Pot and The Brother Enemy, which I plan to scan next, I think you don’t have those too, Pineapple. They are rather large books, I got recently but haven’t had a chance to read them yet, partly because I want to finish library items first and also because I want to scan them before I leave any marks or notes on them.

Kampuchea as a factor in a Sino-Soviet conflict

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ANAFX5FF

Beyond the horizon. 5 years with Khmer Rouge.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZX66T9JV

Did you find the Foreign Policy of Kampuchea any of interest? I read it all elsewhere, it’s interesting a bit as it features a lot of references to the old newspaper and magazine articles. It mentions that Sam Sary died in South Vietnam contrary to Thailand, where I thought he was killed. What a might be bomb for his son! Daddy working together with Vietnamese intelligence against Prince Sihanouk! I should definitely release this information on my Khmer socialist blog.

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

Guess — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:34:05 +0000

Interesting read. I may be mistaken but I remember reading about the Russians being horrified when the Yugoslav Communists spoke of the peasants being an important, leading part of their own socialist project.

Comment on 17th Congress of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, September 1977 by Pineapple

Pineapple — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:51:02 +0000

Yes, I have a paper copy translated into the English language. The translation isn’t so good, but then it’s still an interesting piece. I did have it scanned, but I lost the PDF copy I made of it. I will be scanning another copy at some point and posting it up here for people to download if they so wish. I just haven’t got the time right now, and importantly I need to buy a new scanner, as my last one broke down. The old video footage above show’s Pol Pot making the speech at the Congress. Thanks for visiting this blog, and I’m glad to know it’s of interest to people. It makes it worthwhile carrying on with this little project.

Comment on 17th Congress of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, September 1977 by Junta

Junta — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:29 +0000

Hi Pineapple, I love the discussion on your site very thought provoking. You said you have a translated copy of the infamous Pol Pot speech… is this scanned and/or available for sharing?

Comment on Until the Next Hello by Pineapple

Pineapple — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:22:10 +0000

Tong, your post was automatically removed, for if there are two or more links included in a comment, it is marked as spam. I manually deleted it by mistake when getting rid of comments linking to porn sites and other things. I read it though, and thanks for the compliments. I’ll have to get around to reading Platonov myself.

Comment on Until the Next Hello by Pineapple

Pineapple — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:35:07 +0000

Ha ha. The thing about higher education these days, is that for the ‘economic middle class,’ as opposed to, let’s say, the upper middle class, it’s become increasingly utilitarian. The elite will of course still receive a good all round education at the best separate schools and best universities, like they’ve always done, but expansion of higher education has been done in a manner which has created only degree factories, churning out ‘middle class’ morons with little or no intellectual curiosity. I’ve never put one foot inside a lecture hall, and I’m still far better read than her in the above photo. Says it all really.

Comment on Until the Next Hello by mau

mau — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:03:54 +0000