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Before the Vietnam War was illegally and secretively extended into Cambodia, the country was ruled by a popular liberal monarch, who kept Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge at bay. However as American bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trailer expanded indiscriminately , more and more Cambodians were driven into the arms of the revolutionaries.
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Cambodia is a nation split between the past and the future; tending to the savage wounds wrought upon its people by the Khmer Rouge, whilst preparing for a bright future through a young and determined new generation. This deep and incisive portrait of a vibrant and bustling country moves through verdant hills, ancient stone steps and swarming metropolises to reveal a past full of violence and pain, but also a future of hope and expectation.
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as I happen to believe that Henry
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Kissinger was one of the most
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destructive secretaries of state in the
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modern history of this country I am
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proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not
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my friend I will not take advice from
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Henry Kissinger and in fact
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Kissinger's actions in Cambodia when the
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United States bombed that country
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overthrew Prince C you know created the
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instability for Pol Pot in the Khmer
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Rouge to come in who then butchered some
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three million innocent people one of the
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worst genocides in the history of the
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world
while things are stable in
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Cambodia next door and Vietnam trouble
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is brewing and by 1965 a bloody war is
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raging hundreds of thousands of American
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soldiers are fighting the Vietcong
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guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops
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cyanic powerless to prevent it let's the
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North Vietnamese funnel weapons and
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supplies through the eastern part of his
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country along a route that is known as
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the Ho Chi Minh Trail in much the same
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way he turns a blind eye to American
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b-52s bombing the trail with China and
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Russia on one side supporting North
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Vietnam and the US and its allies on the
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other scenic desperate to keep Cambodia
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neutral performs a high-wire act hoping
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he can play enemies against each other
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Cambodia sweeping all the way to the
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Thai border and killing hundreds of
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thousands of civilians
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there's absolutely no doubt that the
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bombing of Cambodia by the United States
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inflicted severe damage on the country
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that these were often bombings a very
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high altitude without much intelligence
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about any specific targets and many
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civilians suffered this was almost all
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of the experts says a huge boon to the
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camera' Rouge in their recruitment
I
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don't think there's any question that
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the bombing did contribute to the camera
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rouges rise to power the war at the
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Khmer Rouge here it involves American
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war in South Vietnam so it was a result
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of the world yes yes and so you
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Americans you must know what happened
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already well we had a secret war in Laos
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in Cambodia oh yes yes and also the
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bombing just you know for under the
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president actions and the Foreign
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Minister Henry Kissinger they bomb in
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the country and also along the Ho Chi
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Minh Trail 2.7 million tons of the b-52
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Cambodia in the early 1970s figured very
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prominently in US politics although we
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forget about that the Kent State
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massacre for example had to do with
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protests against not the war in Vietnam
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but the US incursion into Cambodia
the
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first articles of impeachment drawn
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against Richard Nixon had to do with the
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secret bombing of Cambodia not with
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Watergate so this is a country that for
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a brief time figured very prominently in
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US politics
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it was Nixon's view Nixon and Kissinger
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there was one word that they put a lot
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of weight on that's brutality you're
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dealing with people you have to be
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brutal
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in your use of power the mistake was
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linking Cambodia to Vietnam that was
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kissing Joe's head it in the message we
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linked the two
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the bombing was supported as brutally
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necessary way of maintaining the
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credibility of the United States which
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was still in the midst of the Cold War
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seeing he's losing control of his
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country seat up brakes off relations
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with the US and turns to China and the
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Soviet Union for aid this is a game
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changer for the United States while
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Sirach is visiting France his
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second-in-command General Lon no
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apparently was CIA help cuts the wire
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and the King falls we believe that it
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was the CIA had concocted this coup
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against keynesian of Prince Ian oak the
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chief of state and it was in 1918 March
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1970 and then we have general long law
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who's a strong man for the Americans the
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problem with law null is although he was
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initially appeared to be pliable he was
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actually kind of crazy
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he was into astrology he was a terrible
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leader there was an incredible amount of
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corruption massive amounts of US
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military aid were just being stolen his
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forces immediately upon seizing power
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lon all is faced with a revolution in
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the countryside instigated by the Khmer
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Rouge and its leader Pol Pot Pol Pot his
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real name is salats our
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he actually grew up in the Royal Palace
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where his uncle or the employee
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cause of that connection he actually
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managed to get a government scholarship
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to go to Paris to study and he was
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convinced that Marxism Leninism was the
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salvation to Cambodia which was a feudal
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state in his view run by a monarch
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Prince Sihanouk was a leftist monarch
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this was problematic for the Cambodian
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communists because essentially they had
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to move farther farther to the left to
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criticize him and he was essentially
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stealing their thunder to the point
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where in the early 1960s he made things
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so difficult for them that they fled to
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the countryside and lived among the hill
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tribes these were really really
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difficult conditions in the 10 years or
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so that Pol Pot and his followers lived
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up there simplicity and starkness the
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lack of a gray area the lack of
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compromise they really became extremists
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in the literal sense of the word during
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that time now they might have very much
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kind of been snuffed out and left as a
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footnote in history had it not been for
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the March 1970 coup that toppled Norodom
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sanam the Cambodians believed in cienaga
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that was the right approach they wanted
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to be Cambodian Khmer and they were not
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interested in replacing French
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colonialism with American colonialism
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the United States did not understand we
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still thought that what we have to offer
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his democracy is something good for them
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but you have to have the other side
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agreeing they saw it completely
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differently the key development is when
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Prince Norodom Siena was overthrown in a
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right-wing coup in 1970 and then
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essentially switched sides and started
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supporting the Khmer Rouge scenic
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watches from his exile in China and
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thinks he sees his chance to return to
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power in a pivotal move he goes on the
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radio and calls upon all Cambodians to
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join the very guerrillas he was once
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fighting the Khmer Rouge this will
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change the destiny of Cambodia on April
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17th 1975 the Khmer Rouge Entebbe Phnom
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Penh - cheering crowds the civil war is
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over and peace has finally come
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they think and that is really the point
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at which the Khmer Rouge becomes a
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serious political force and I think see
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you know --cz involvement and his
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backing of that movement led to tens of
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thousands of people in the countryside
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where he was revered as a God King to
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join and oppose the government in pomp n
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gu Mian had part of BIA
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he would come to like some back
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branderham say no how come - but I can a
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cat will rap aha tom roby
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the opportunity company ITP Shaban
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crystalline take the moon and catch leap
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in Nantou Blackrock might now come
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hungry none can top the enamel move Joe
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commentator welcome
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no it's name your mukti pd su-chub right
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some cognizant option but they are
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walking on maternal and actually built
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no t the khmer rouge won the war and
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everybody thought that motive was
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finished so we're happy no more fighting
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but well it turned to be worse case
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scenario when I had to leave as I left I
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took the flag of the ambassador I didn't
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want people to desecrate the American
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flag I was weeping leaving the country
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behind without any kind of control
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solution we had given the impression
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that we were going to go and help them
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and not walk out and there after all
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these promises we had made we just
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walked out
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@alphaomega5923
3 years ago
I am a Khmer Rouge victim. I can still vividly remember everything. I can still smell fresh blood. I can still see victims when I close my eyes. I can still see the boy was buried alive. I can still see things that can never be erased from my mind.
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@sooryan_1018
3 years ago
Sorry for what you had to face
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@bpalpha
3 years ago
All the more reason for society to reject violent rule.
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@antitiktokunion3894
3 years ago
I have a question. When you see people making videos supporting Pol Pot how does it make you feel?
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@clayphsonkurt1918
3 years ago
There are wounds that only God heals
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@YoYo-thegfhf
3 years ago
Yeah , and they criticized vietnam on invasion stealing their land . But , they didnt worry about pol pot killing cambodian.
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@sromaol640
2 years ago
America has two faces: first, a murderer. Second, savior. It's the same thing Vietnam did to Cambodia in 1979-1989.
The United States has helped the Vietnamese Communist dictator from 1991 to today, while Vietnam's ambition for Cambodia never gives up.Without China, Cambodia has been absorbed by Vietnam since 1954.
The trap never forgets the stork, but the stork always forgets the trap! (Khmers who forget history look like a stork. Vietnam's ambition for Cambodia looks like a trap.)
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@gnas1897
2 years ago
@antitiktokunion3894 no one does that though
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@high3747
2 years ago
PT FUCKING SD
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@vantrinh9406
2 years ago (edited)
@sromaol640 Let the Chinese big brother make you great again. I am Vietnamese, I regret what I did to you.
When we free you from the hands of polpot. You said us: the army of buddhas. After you receive peace, you say we are invaders. The current government invites Vietnam to destroy the Khmer Rouge.
Remember that polpots were not completely destroyed, but they were hiding in Thailand, receiving aid from China, America, and Thailand. We stay to help Cambodia rebuild from the ashes.
Never touch Vietnam again and we will respect you too.
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@mauricedavis8261
2 years ago
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@high3747
2 years ago
ជីតា how old are you
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@high3747
2 years ago
@tantriho1627 communists Said that
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@oddsbside
2 years ago
I know your pain because my father now he is 59yearsold he have told me the victims and terror that the khmer rouge have bring to all of us
And how much they have killed so I know your pain
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@realskhk
2 years ago
proof?
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@Ice-Black-Coffee
2 years ago
So if, Why the Cambodian's young generation now betray and hate Vietnam? Why Why Why?
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@TinyBallsTickler
2 years ago
you were lucky to survive.Very Lucky
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@zead9454
2 years ago
Cambodian Youth Hate Vietnam Just Because We Came To Their Country, Destroy The Polpot Regime And Stop Genocide, It's So Sad
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@oddsbside
2 years ago
@tantriho1627 it's a very messed up story and a long one too it's pretty hard to explain but all that I can say since 1975-1979 we lost 2/3 of the Cambodian population under the leader ship of polpot.
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@oddsbside
2 years ago
@sinaloense5798 thanks
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@nirhawk
2 years ago
The winner always right lol
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@isme6848
2 years ago
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@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._
2 years ago
@vajraloka1 very specifically, Pol Pot was directly founded by the CIA in the years fallowing their take over, of course the very communist CIA, the killing of Chinese capitalists was not perpetrated by the govenment, but the people of China, the fammin in China was caused by the pride of lower party officials as they wouldn't report low production, in North Korea they didn't cultivate enough food for themselves as the would import food from the USSR so when the USSR ceased to be, people starved, In the USSR, the purge was order to be targeted towards Nazis and Terrorists from the old regime, and the person that took that to far and killed innocence was killed for his crimes, that was Nikoli Yezhov, hes the only instance of people being removed from pictures and people having been disappeared, and the fammin is disputed as being caused by wealthy farm owners protesting collective by burning tonns of food, to being caused by the govenment not giving it to them.
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@kristoskalemanis
2 years ago
@clayphsonkurt1918 u mean death? Just wondering because these types of wounds don't heal they just change and become different.
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@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._
2 years ago
@lilmane1070 tell me then what did Yezhov do, why he was killed, did Yezhov not go far enough, was the Yezhovshina not enough
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@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._
2 years ago
@lilmane1070
Stalin - "Yezhov is a rat; In 1938 he killed many innocent people, we shot him for that"
Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge Pg. 529
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@scottmckenna9164
2 years ago
Yes, you are deeply traumatized.
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@helbitkelbit1790
2 years ago
You are the beginning.....you are the end .
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@maokeangseng4548
2 years ago
I live in cambodia and i just found out about this
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@ggsp1tfire905
2 years ago
I feel horrible for you and your family. I am deeply sorry for your experiences and loss. May never such a fascistic regime be allowed to exist again.
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@plveuk813
2 years ago
Liar LOL
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@acemany1126
2 years ago
@antitiktokunion3894 Red. That's what I see!! Thank God my family made it out but we had to endure so much racism in America...and still currently. I pray for the people of Ukraine because I feel their pain.
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@born2live820
1 year ago
as my personal i won't call this as invasion or i would call we need this kind of invasion more in this world to recurring those are sadly killing as pol pot regime killing fields
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@joselopes6851
1 year ago
@vantrinh9406 Hola estimado Van, porque dice que China ayudó a los Polpot en Tailandia?. Cuál es o fué el interés?.
Gracias.
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@alidabirnia2882
1 year ago
I love you. I wish I could have done something though I wasn't born yet. I fell in love with Houy Meas and 60s and 70s Cambodian music is full of beauty and soul and this is what happened? Nothing will ever take away the beauty of the Cambodian people in the midst of horror. All my love and respect to you and I'm so glad you survived.
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@tmq0311....
1 year ago
@sromaol640 you mean Republic of Vietnam absorb Cambodian right? at that time the Communism Vietnam not even have the south
And stop called every communism are dictators without reason
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@enjoythetae9325
1 year ago (edited)
@zead9454 no, the reason Cambodian don't like Vietnam is because they still can't get over the fact that Cambodia losing Khmer Krom to Vietnam including Pol Pot and that's why he tried to declare war with Vietnam.
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@trantienfc3776
1 year ago
Chia sẻ với những gì bạn đã trải qua
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@ahmedalbirti4090
1 year ago
As someone who lives far from Cambodia and is familiar with the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.... I hope to God that this experience is the only one of its kind..... It is good at least that you are not like the 3 million others who went to the killing fields who saw What is the worst..... I hope you are fine
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@tantriho1627 that's a lie my father was also one of the victim. Sorry my English isn't good
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@undesignated3491
1 year ago
The English suggests otherwise. Stop lying.
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@undesignated3491 lying what ?
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@undesignated3491 many of people that saying it fake only some young stupid kid or people that doesn't born in Cambodia
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@undesignated3491 you cam come here and try to ask old people they will tell you how there life is and all the killer during that time speak and and Khmer people
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@undesignated3491 and my dad was a victim of Khmer rouge and he also fought again Khmer rouge
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@youngdead329
1 year ago
@undesignated3491 and if you're that support Khmer rouge and think they're fought against Vietnam let me tell you one thing Khmer rouge was support by Vietnam you can do the research
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@mirsad96
4 years ago
Vietnam ended Pol Pot, right after they beat the US. Huge respect to the Vietnamese people for beating mass murdering enemies one after another.
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@Dkfmagp
4 years ago
Us USA kids never learned about the Cambodian war. This is the first time I’m hearing this because of the movie Calle “FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER”
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta Vietnamese is also the one who trick our king into creating the troop align with pol pot so no they’re not innocent especially Ho Chi Minh.
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta you can call it bullshit because I heard it from a lot of the elders who went through it especially my dad and grandparent. Yes Vietnamese came to help but with a major cost for us, and they have Hun sen already in place whom I think didn’t even finish highschool.
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta personally I have nothing against Vietnam but the older generation just have that deep hatred against Vietnamese cuz of what had happened. Cambodia is slowly becoming like Laos since China and Vietnamese invest heavily in the economy.
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta I do understand that they went through this tough situation too and the past is the past but other Cambodian think Hun sen is Vietnamese puppet and I heard it from other elders
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta thank you for this insight explanation although don’t you think it’s convenient that hun sen was just in the right place at the right time. Of course Vietnamese did help cambodia but that doesn’t make up for the other thing
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta That is true, but Vietnam is not so innocent themselves. And Cambodians just hold on to the past thing that happened, you can’t blame them.
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@rekwinchester7509
3 years ago
Prince Vegeta Not to mention Some of the Khmer Rouge soldier is consist of Vietnamese people
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@oneworld8617
3 years ago
@rekwinchester7509 Well, we can't blame others. He's so full of himself. All he care is about his freaking power.
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@junexmarsil1223
3 years ago
@sokvital7967 Or orchestrated a coup that made lives miserable for the populace & lead to people side with the left,
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@Ptomify
3 years ago
The Vietnamese are real life superheros
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@emilymariplays5536
5 years ago
My mom was in this war In Cambodia and was enslaved for years,She was very lucky to not get killed
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@glenemma1
3 years ago
I think Henry Kissinger is still alive today.
How true is the saying, ''only the good die young''.
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@kskufan
3 years ago
Yea Trump has gotten got rid of him in 2020 .. so he is alive
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@helbitkelbit1790
2 years ago
Hard to believe that yes , he is still alive....
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@friskasmaniacalabomination2372
1 year ago (edited)
Millions of youth who died in wars, while the old people are the ones who just need to say a few words to orchestrate a war
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@solomonking5097
1 year ago
Yea the devil seedline Kissenger still alive in 2023.
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@TristanSmith
1 year ago
That man will live to be 500 years old.
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@thihienmainguyen4314
1 year ago
BURSTING WITH LIFE. Yes, that is Cambodia today, BURSTING WITH LIFE. Thanks to whom ? Please answer honestly and impartially.
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@Kong4
3 years ago
My mother got seperated from her mother at the age of 16 during this bombing.
They never got a chance to see each other in person ever again.
We made it to Canada when I was 3years old.
Grandma died before we were able to afford a trip back, but at least I got to meet grandpa.
I'm 33 today...
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@MsNationaltreasure
3 years ago
The fact that growing up this was not mentioned in my education and how this is as bad as the holocaust and its not treated as such is nuts to me. I'M shook how our government supported that man and I am truly so sorry for all those millions of people killed.
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@genocidejoe
3 years ago
Your school system is a joke
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@genocidejoe
2 years ago
Some guy on the internet am not american bro
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@jango7889
2 years ago
I learned about it in world history ap, schools need more funding
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@jus_sanguinis
1 year ago
Many people dont know the US "realpolitik" was not just about supporting Afghan mujaheedins in the 70-80s or Saudi Arabia today. You probably will be shoked, but Americans and the West also supported Pol Pot/Khmer rogue regime. Back then USSR and Vietnam were enemies of the Khmer rouge Cambodia which was supported by China, US and their allies. For example, during the UN General Assembly (september 1979) USA and other "democratic" countries voted in favor of overthrown Pol Pot to keep him in power as a legitimate Cambodia ruler... Also British military trained Khmer rouge militia after 1979.
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@TUBESPECIFIC1
6 years ago
A very dark, but true episode of shadow puppet theater. I never knew anything about what really happened over there until I actually went there in 2008. It's most awkward as America was supposed to work for stability in uniting the world in global democracy instead of causing geopolitical chaos, death, and destruction. For all the Americans who've never traveled or looked into anything in the real world outside our schools, you guys just don't yet know these truths and Cambodia is only one of many such wrongdoings.
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@MaxMustermann-hk2qs
1 year ago
Kissinger turned 100 just a few days ago. Truly unfair how some people are allowed to live out their lives while being responsible for the taking of so many other lives.
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@toasteddingus6925
1 year ago
Met a bomber pilot years ago who talked about how he got these missions, high altitude night time raids into Laos and Cambodia, how the kill counts were atrocious and how he knew they were killing mostly just civilians. He left the armed forces as quickly as he could after that tour of duty and became an activist in California
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@supercruiser4925
4 years ago
Finally a non-biased western report. Not only did Vietnam got attacked by America but also had time to save the Cambodians from Pol Pot.
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@DingDang3D
5 years ago
support by usa stop by communist vietnam, ironic and magic!
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@xavieryin327
4 years ago
Wow, I never realized my dad was lucky to survive.
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@ludwigvanbeethoven6853
3 years ago
That genocidal maniac Kissinger is still alive in his late 90s as I'm writing this comment.
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@thihienmainguyen4314
10 months ago
A revealing question .... Who supported Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge to the bitter end ?
# First, it's China - Directing, encouraging and supporting them to wipe Cambodia clean of Cambodians, making it ready for Chinese advisors, soldiers, workers, and settlers to flood in and turn it into another XinJiang (a China's conquered province)
# Next, USA - Supporting and using Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (plus prodding Deng XiaoPing's China) to exact revenge on the Vietnamese who had dared to shoot down their B52s and kick the American new colonialists who were taking on the mantle of the French old colonialists, out of their country Vietnam
# Then, Thailand, Singapore, .... - Lackeys following orders from the USA (and from China's in the case of Singapore)
# Lastly, UK, Australia, .... - USA's vassals.
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@jakezywek6852
3 years ago
Phnom Penh was my home for 6 months. Cambodia is a beautiful nation, with a durable, tough people who have endured a lot. I used to eat Num Pow for breakfast, with Thunder Energy drink. I will not forget you Cambodia.
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@jerrystreen6943
5 years ago
USA: Tries to stop the flow of communism*
USA: Helps spread communism*
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@grahambutler734
3 years ago
Christopher Hitchens has been saying Kissenger should be in a prision cell for years. He even wrote a book. The trial of Henry Kissenger i think its called.
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@meoandanh2260
5 years ago
Love Campuchia from VietNam
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@KrGsMrNKusinagi0
2 years ago
“China supported the Khmer Rouge during the 1970-1975 war and was the sole critical supporter throughout the 1975-1979 Democratic Kampuchea period of genocide. With Chinese money and support, Pol Pot carried out the period of murder, starvation and brutality.”
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@Hoaquason93
3 years ago
China retaliated when the Vietnamese disobeyed and destroyed the Khmer Rouge, so they invaded Vietnam in 1979 but were defeated.
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@whg_brianferguson
2 years ago
I feel almost ashamed that I never was never educated on this, and this is coming from someone who considers themselves patriotic
truly awful
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@tirta.yansen
9 months ago
ASEAN matters!
As an Indonesian, i think Cambodia is a very beautiful country, rich in cultures. We're pretty much the same.
Much love from Indonesia
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@ManScoutsofAmerica
4 years ago
I argued with Henry Kissinger once and cracked a quick joke about being a war criminal. He didn’t enjoy my company and that made me smile because he requested it.
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@m-jihs8972
4 years ago
My grandma says so many bomb and destroy Village everyone die and she alive so my grandmother says don't want to happen again this war feel so bad 🇰🇭
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@reahsahpagel3354
3 years ago
I remember we would go over Vietnam war in school and no mention of cambodia and Laos and everything else that happened. It was a really sad time really bc I know my teacher knew what was going on but the curriculum just didn’t support teaching kids more of the history than just we went to Vietnam.
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@edgar95035
5 years ago
America bungled the handling of Cambodia that time, we practically handed over Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge on a silver platter
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@PissMenn
5 years ago
Seems like US wants to follow after their success in Indonesia and applying it to Cambodia but it turns failed.
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@jackytang3683
4 years ago
There are no differences between USSR USA and China. Geography politics interests are more important than innocent civilian lives.
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@haroldpearson6025
3 years ago
Im a Brit, lived and worked in Cambodia from 1998 to 2017. I married a lovely Cambodian lady who suffered under Pol Pot and was left with 2 children. Im happy I have been able to be a big part in raising her son and daughter.
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@lindachan3115
11 months ago
Most of my siblings and parents suffered and died when Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia. I and my late brother were the only ones who escaped the war since we came to America in the early 70s. I am thankful to the Lord who brought me out from this horrible war. I always say that there are only three types of people in this world: the good, the bad and the ugly. Just remember to vote for the right person and you can help not just your own country, but the rest of the world also. I have no resentment nor anger towards anyone. As a Christian, I have to forgive and let go; otherwise, I would not be able to live peacefully. ️
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@jorgechs4711
3 years ago
i love how every tragedy in moderd history can be summed into "Its USA's fault"
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@SadethCheng
4 years ago
My grandpa fought under Lon Nol's Khmer Republic Army as an artillery officer.
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@min_ny721
2 years ago
Vietnam invading Cambodia wasnt “invading” totally, it was more to end Khmer Rouge holocaust
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@unggrabb
6 months ago
Bernie is the man. Honour for calling out a war criminal
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@rodfirefighter8341
4 years ago
I can see this is very emotional. I think and feel we Americans didn't know enough to make any good decisions in the Vietnam story. Nixon and Kissinger's policy show that. Cambodia is in a similar boat. We don't understand their culture, so why pretend to make good decisions for them? Nixon and Kissinger failed to make any good decisions for this country or its people. Even those two countries suffered a political and intellectual genocide shortly before each started on its down fail. Vietnam in around 1945-6 and Cambodia in around 1947. Any threat to those in charge were expelled or eliminated. I that's why the best and brightest lawyers, doctors, professors, engineers, and other common sense people are always rounded up first! Oh yes, they take any guns before that! Then there is no opposition and they will rule however they please! Americans missed that simple point. We could have helped Vietnam in 1945 and NOT sided with France. She was totally wrong and so were we for backing any pre war colonial power claiming it had to have its Indo- China colonies! We were very stupid. French should have been forced to stay out of Cambodia to allow it to recover from WWII. Since we didn't, there was a price to pay and the people of those two countries paid a very high price! US Military forget all lessons that should have been learned. We used to fight like the Native American's, then we forgot that! We learned how to defeat army's much bigger than us, then we forgot that (North against the South)!
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@Mrgunsngear
3 years ago
Thanks
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@thihienmainguyen4314
3 years ago
BlueRice says "i hate history. i think its time to move forward with cooperation. past is the past. the future is now and we must work together." - I say:
# I agree wholeheartedly with you on your "i think its time to move forward with cooperation" and "the future is now and we must work together"
# I agree only partially with you on your "past is the past". Because, the past affects the present and the future. If we don't try to learn and gain more knowledge and wisdom from the past, its tragedies, horrors, ... could be repeated.
# Regarding your "i hate history", while I respect your liking, I disagree totally with your attitude. It's not helpful for creating a better, more civilized world and for human progress, if not outright dangerous, for reasons similar to those above relating to your "past is the past".
# Cheers.
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@thihienmainguyen4314
10 months ago
BURSTING WITH LIFE, PEACEFUL LIFE! Yes, that is Cambodia now, BURSTING WITH PEACEFUL LIFE. Thanks to whom ? Please answer honestly and impartially.
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@poopsanchez6449
3 years ago
Don't forget that the CIA also backed a coup with Lon Nol and proceeded to back out, leaving them defenseless and at the mercy of the Khmer Rouge. They lost the battles, lost the war, and then proceeded to be taken over by Angkar.
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@bamboo9666
4 years ago
I though he was gonna said: "infact Henry Kissinger can kiss my ass"
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@thihienmainguyen4314
2 years ago
English below. If you cannot ... Các bạn không đọc được tiếng Anh chịu khó chờ bản tiếng Việt nhé (tui gởi ý kiến nầy tới 1 Video tiếng Anh); mời mọi người coi chơi.
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Some people say "The US have LITERALLY NO BUSINESS starting that War vs. Vietnam ..." -- Please consider again regarding "BUSINESS", as per below
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Domino theory ? Stop the spread of communism ? Protect the "free world" ? ...
# Maybe. But please consider the following first.
# Imagine I was the owner of a company that makes ammunition for the US-army guns, plus canned food for the US Military.
# If the war in Vietnam went ahead (i.e. killing people, Vietnamese and Americans; expected to last years), I'd stand to make maybe 100 billion dollars in total (makers of helicopter gunships, artillery shells, military clothing, ... would probably make more money)
# If there wasn't any war, then I would not have that 100 billion dollars.
# In that case (no war) I would try to destroy any obstacle on my way of getting that 100 billion dollars.
# President John F Kennedy was hesitant about invading Vietnam and starting a war (he knew about Vietnamese people's history and spirits), and about to declare USA's no-war and non-involvement (or drastically reduced involvement)
# Please suggest what I do to get my 100 billion dollars. Thanks.
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@Bellasie1
3 years ago
And then he got the Nobel Peace Prize... seriously, what kind of world do we live in?
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@bulksquatthrust2554
4 years ago
Man, I really need to go brush my teeth.
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@badpenguin4592
2 years ago (edited)
As a Cambodian, I respect John Gunther Dean ... He's know us. Khmer people follow monarchy for 2000 years. It's hard to change their idea.
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@thihienmainguyen4314
1 year ago
Whether we like it or not, geography, destiny, .... have made the fate of people in Cambodia - Laos - Vietnam into 1; that is, if any of those 3 countries is troubled, unstable, war-ravaged, ...., then the rest would go the same way: troubled, unstable, war-ravaged.
# It's ONLY WHEN ALL THREE COUNTRIES are stable, peaceful, prosperous, then the people in those 3 countries could enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
# Thus, the people in those 3 countries must safeguard their peace, stable environment, prosperity TOGETHER, UNITED.
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@mikedavis7347
5 years ago
I don't agree with senator Bernie on alot of issues, but his comment on Kissinger couldn't have said better!
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@dr.noir27
3 years ago
iraq korea vietnam cuba venezuela chili those countries are damaged and still bleeding because of the previous u.s.a governments
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@thihienmainguyen4314
2 years ago
English below - Tiếng Việt bên dưới.
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សូមជូនពរអោយអ្នកទាំងអស់គ្នាបានឃើញនូវឈុតបង្ហូរឈាមនិងភាពវឹកវរជាថ្មីម្តងទៀតនៅគ្រប់ទីកន្លែងក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជាមុនឆ្នាំ ១៩៧៥ ដោយសារការទម្លាក់គ្រាប់បែករបស់អាមេរិកនិងការផ្តួលរំលំសម្តេចព្រះនរោត្តមសីហនុ (“ ការសំដែងខាងចំហៀង” របស់អាមេរិក) ។ បន្ទាប់មកមើលម្តងទៀតនូវឆ្នាំរបស់ប៉ុលពតជាមួយនឹងទីក្រុងដែលនៅឆ្ងាយ, ការដើរក្បួនដោយបង្ខំ, វាលពិឃាត, រូបថតរបស់គុកទួលស្លែងនៃកុមារ, ស្ត្រីនិងបុរសដោយមានភ្នែកដ៏គួរឱ្យខ្លាចរង់ចាំរងទារុណកម្មនិងសម្លាប់ចោល។
# បន្ទាប់មកមើលឈុតឆាកនៃប្រទេសកម្ពុជានាពេលបច្ចុប្បន្នដែលកំពុងផ្ទុះឡើងជាមួយនឹងជីវិត។
# បន្ទាប់មកផ្អាកបន្តិចហើយនិយាយដោយស្មោះត្រង់សួរដោយមិនលំអៀង៖ "អរគុណដល់អ្នកណាសម្រាប់ការរស់ឡើងវិញនេះ?"
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Wish everyone view again the bloody and chaotic, hellish scenes everywhere in Cambodia's pre-1975, due to American bombing and overthrowing of Norodom Sihanouk (America's "side show"). Then view again the Pol Pot's years with deserted cities, forced march, execution fields, Tuol Sleng's photos of children, women and men, with their terrified eyes, waiting to be tortured and killed.
# Then view the scenes of today's Cambodia bursting with life.
# Then pause a little and honestly, impartially ask: "Thanks to whom for this revival?"
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Mọi người xem lại những cảnh chết chóc hổn loạn Địa ngục Trần gian ở Campuchia trước 1975, do Mỹ bỏ bom và lật đổ Norodom Sihanouk. Rồi coi lại cảnh những năm tháng dưới thời Pôn Pốt với các Thành phố ma không người, Dân bị đuổi khỏi thành phố, những cánh đồng chết, những tấm hình ở Tuol Sleng của những trẻ nhỏ, đàn bà, đàn ông, với những cặp mắt hoảng sợ, đang chờ bị tra tấn và giết chết.
# Rồi nhìn cảnh Campuchia ngày nay tràn trề sự sống.
# Rồi hãy ngừng một chút, và thật công bình, chân thật, hỏi: "Sự sống lại kỳ diệu nầy là nhờ Ai?"
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@yemkonhongha8148
1 year ago
It hurts for three million Cambodian souls when Pol Pot dies naturally without knowing the taste of palm branches, saws, hoe, nail polish, torture, as it did to the people.
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@irenewong9227
5 years ago
when I was little my mum always telling us had to eat full then a bomb came we could sometimes 3 times a day
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@wolverinex4243
8 months ago
Very well done documentary.
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@prophet1782
9 months ago (edited)
6:24 The Palm trees are called Sugar Palms. Very sweet coconut like soft balls of meat inside.{ 5c ,10c ,20 c size }Sugar is produced from it. Also can eat raw. Canned is also sold in western Asian shops.
The green field is rice .
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@pilipili1500
3 years ago
việt nam. ho chi minh . tôi yêu việt nam
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@blackskywalker3440
2 years ago
I'm from Cambodia 🇰🇭,
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@Hahaha41241
3 years ago
Seing Biden in his last speech saying America is back and will bring the world democracy really scares me.
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@jus_sanguinis
1 year ago
Btw many people dont know the US "realpolitik" was not just about supporting Afghan mujaheedins in the 70-80s or Saudi Arabia today. You probably will be shoked, but Americans and the West also supported Pol Pot/Khmer rogue regime. Back then USSR and Vietnam were enemies of the Khmer rouge Cambodia which was supported by China, US and their allies. For example, during the UN General Assembly (september 1979) USA and other "democratic" countries voted in favor of overthrown Pol Pot to keep him in power as a legitimate Cambodia ruler... Also British military trained Khmer rouge militia after 1979.
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@Xuvivu
4 years ago
It's called American human rights
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@TriNguyen-xi8ji
4 years ago
I really like the animation and that ambient music.
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@sanchanoudom498
2 years ago
My grandparents were dead in the house by the US air force dropped boobing along the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. And my father became an orphan child at that time when he was two years old.his said.
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@mahoneytechnologies657
3 years ago
This is the only thing I agree with Sanders! I would go further and say that most of our Secretaries of State have terrible, Clinton tops the list for corruption, Kissinger tops the list for being the most dangerous.
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@thanhtc1988
5 years ago
Firstly 1972-1975 Khmer Rouge against Lon Nol regime (USA puppet),but when they took power in 1975 they turn to anti-Vietnam and killed not anti-Vietnam member in their party(not all anti Vietnam in the beginning).USA realized that so they supported Pol Pot against Vietnam because of their butt hurt in Vietnam war and this is their chance to revenge.USA covered eyes of the UN about Pol Pot regime 's genocide,Khmer Rouge also took a seat in UN Council.And USA also force Thailand to give an area in border for Pol Pot make base after wiped out of Cambodia by Vietnam.CIA and China kept give aid to Pol Pot so Pol Pot forces still alive until 1998.
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@hroomos5822
4 years ago
As a Cambodian, I love American . We love to trade and peace but nobody invade my country.
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@chesterlee6508
3 years ago
What did you learn in school today dear little boy of mine,? "well I learned our soldiers never die and our politicians never lie, that,s what I learned in school today, that,s what I learned in school." ?
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@shangwensun9746
3 years ago
Wow, learned with a big surprise.
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@khornchhim1279
9 months ago
I lost three people of my family in 1975 during Pol Pot took power then my people were very suffer and suffer.
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@brianlevine4802
3 years ago
I worked with a Khmer in the '80's.We had to move a drum of freon from a storage area Into a "parts" area.3 of us got picked to move stuff.Some freon got spilled on his shirt.The cold made by the evaporation freaked him out.He took off his shirt.His upper body was covered in religious tattoos.Sankrit writing,A large figure of a woman and smaller figures.Later I asked about his tattoos.His family were staff at the palace.He became part of the palace guards.He got a gun and a tattoo when he was accepted into the king's service.My co-worker made a comment about tattood Asian gangsters.I explained to him what they meant.This man had survived incredible hardship.He loved being in America.He was surprised that I knew about the Khmer Rouge and the horror show in Cambodia.There is a Khmer family that runs two local businesses.Every time I go in,I greet them with my palms together and my thumbs on my forehead.If they are out of my favorite item,They will make a small batch for me.Wonderful people.
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@annprom298
3 years ago
I like the way last U S ambassador in Cambodia said 04 . 17 .1975 I ,m the one young soldier on front line protected the Phnom penh city.
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@ryanlloyd-jones8441
3 years ago
Disgraceful by the United States to turn a blind eye on Cambodia at this time. Kissenger and Nixon's conduct and arrogance deplorable.
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@nguyenuctrung3814
4 years ago
and some american still blame vn for this
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@null-1
2 years ago
One of the reasons why I’ve never met my Grandpa.
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@vishnunamobuddhayabhikkuas7149
3 years ago
Thank you so much
For showing the about the the Khmer Rouge I was 12 years old in that time and all my 5 siblings and nieces nephew my God’s parents are killed between 1975 to 1979 and I was the very lucky one very very sad ️
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