My Khmer language teacher in grad school was one of the lucky ones who survived Pol Pot's regime. He told our class an emotional story once about being around 8 years old and working in the field after a heavy rain and seeing/catching a crab. The rules of the village under the KR at the time would have required him to bring the crab back and add it to a communal soup. Instead he was so hungry he was borderline starving (he hadn't had real protein in weeks) that he ate the crab raw in the field. I then visited the Killing Fields, & Tuol Sleng for the first time back in 2010. It really does leave an imprint on your heart..
😢 It's a big eye opener for the people who think any conflict is not without loss of life. I'm like you mate I was in my late teens when that happened and like you with the current conflict in Ukraine and yet again the UN is a toothless tiger it seems. Thanks for bring the video out mate, it's now on my bucket list to visit 😊
Matt, one of my best friends, went there years ago and it changed him, and like your friend in a way he wishes he’d never gone. Matt isn’t one for showing his emotions but he cried buckets when he told us what he had seen. Even his wife says Matt hasn’t been the same since going to the Killing Fields. Thanks for making this video Nick, it brings things home and we don’t know how lucky we are to an extent. May those poor people rest in peace; I hope they are in a better place. We’ve so much to learn as a species; arguably we don’t deserve this Earth. All the best Nick. Take care everyone.🙏🏻
I won't be able to get this out of my head and I don't think the horrors of what happened here have sunk in yet. Apparently the place stunk for years and they still find bones coming out of the ground daily now. There are no birds in the trees not even they will visit this place of evil.
Simonize ,I couldn't go and visit ,I got Emotional visiting The Burma Railway and everything connected to it .I stopped watching this 3 mins in 🤦♂But People do need to see this not knowing, I had my feel in Thailand ..To emotional 🥹
Nick, thanks for showing this. I visited a similar but smaller memorial when I was in Siem Reap in 2006. It leaves a lump in the throat and sadness in the heart.
Hey Nick. Brought back lots of Memories,I went 20 years ago, there was no filming then too. But I was able film on a small camera secretly, it was a lot different place then, but still overwhelming. Good video buddy.
I went to college with a Vietnam war vet. He was a helicopter gunner. He told me that they were on the ground listening to President Nixon on the radio saying the US will not go into Cambodia. They were 10 miles inside the Cambodian border at that time. He felt pretty guilty about what happened there.
Great vid, I didn't know about any of this. You have tough me something today & I am now going to start resourcing the subject. So sad this happened in modern times.
Nick I remember reading the book called the killing Fields . It was the most emotionally book I have ever read. It made me truly realise how much wrong there is in our world. Thank you for this video nick. It is very touching and real.
Scott nailed it “…half of me wishes I’d just not come”. Exactly how I felt after visiting Dachau. It’s shocking how much more it affects you than you may have anticipated. Sickening ☮️
I rememberseeing this on the tv in 1975 when i was 10, and its haunted me ever since. I've seen several TH-cam videos on this and all have reduced me to tears. I would like to visit but I'm not sure I could handle it. I think Myanmar is pretty much going through the same right now, and like then, nobody does anything.
Thanks Nick, after watching this i don't think that I could bring myself to go there, Realy Distressing !! We need to remember how Lucky we are, although many people think they are hard done by, until you see places like this Cheers Mate
A well done video 🙏. 27yrs since I was there, it's changed a bit, then you just drove up to were the skulls are kept. Always remember walking around and tripping over something, when I looked down there was an bone sticking out of the ground, pretty harrowing. A good book to read on it is The Stones Cry Out.
Well presented Nick.....Since Pol Pot....So many more genocides Globally.....Do we never learn. Good On You for documenting the Killing Fields......May they all be resting , and now in peace 8:33
Yes, very different video but thank you for making it and thank you for posting it. They are important reminders of what we are capable of, of what power in the wrong hands can lead to.
You should have gone to Tuol Sleng (S21) before going to Choeug Ek Genocide Centre (Killing Fields) you would then have followed the route the prisoners would have taken. Both places are so very sad. I have lived in Cambodia for nearly 6 years. The Cambodian people are the friendliest people one could wish to meet. I hope after seeing the distressing side of Cambodia you can enjoy seeing some of the bright side of this wonderful country.
As mentioned Toul Sleng detention Prison S21 in Phnom Penh (formerly a college pre 1975) The evidence of Atrocities are still there just as when the Vietnamese Army discovered the place in 1979. Just go see for yourself. Very good vlog Nick👍
I had the same feelings when i visited Auschwitz Concentration camp in Poland. Very difficult to be there but a necessary one, I think. Some American folks like to called disliked politicians a “Nazi” or “Hilter” and yet they’ve never been to places like this to realize how horrible someone like that actually was and how wrong it is to make such a characterization for political sake. And don’t forget, some people still believe it was all a myth.
When I was there with my two kids aged 9 years and 11 years try to explain what went on with all the skulls extremely upsetting so we went to seim reip
Thank you Nick, not sure if I can visit that place, I watch it and cry maybe i will watch it again, so sad we haven’t learned anything from the past and not sure if we ever will, and your area so right where was the ultimate nations , again thank you 🙏
I was there in February, so sad going there and hearing all the stories, with all the bones and cloth you can see in the ground. The story about them bashing the babies against the tree was so awful :(
It a very distressing place to visit all those thousands of skulls piled up empty eye sockets looking out at you, S21 is an even more harrowing place to visit, I came out of there trying not to throw up.
Nick I went there 10 years ago with a mate..we both were crying our eyes out at that baby tree..Shocking times Australian Government did nothing either..Pol Pot lived to an old age too ..😡..Your right about Socialism..!!
sadly still happening not on the same scale " i hope" i was there in 97 it was a bit different then just a dirt track out to it no headphones but a guide it definetly had a humbling effect on me.
A few weeks ago I visited Ba Chúc just across the border in Vietnam where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge massacred more than 3,000 in 12 days in 1978 and triggered the Vietnamese to invade. Chilling. The monument is similarly very moving. Thanks for the vid.
I visited The Killing Fields along with Tuol Sleng last year. You have to do Tuol Sleng. Extremely powerful stuff. One thing about The Killing Fields that I remember is the distinct smell as well. There was an aura of calmness but also a feeling of heartbreak. Be sure to do the self-guided audio tour of Tuol Sleng as well. I cried like a baby at the end of that visit. So sad that so many innocent people were murdered.
Good to see you getting away from the business for a while gives you a chance to revitalise Sad place the killing fields Same as bridge over river kwai
I was there around 10 years ago walked the perimeter of the grounds. There were 2 ponds on the grounds where they threw the dead victims. As I continued walking I started to notice clothing and bones sticking out of the landscape. Chilling. The prison S-21 with the victims pictures on the walls is even more stark.
An horrific war in unfamiliar terrain it was awful for those guys. I am sorry for you and your brother who you probably never got to know each property. 😥
Hi Nick, Was in Cambodia in 1994 (I think) with the UN. Looks like it has changed so very much.... Tuol Sleng prison was horrific, but when we actually toured the Phnom Penh Killing fields I recall it was out in the countryside (just outside Phnom Penh). The place you showed looks all built up now 😲
Yeah it is so built up I presumed it was already like this and there were locals already living there? It's literally 30 mins drive due to traffic outside of Phnom Penh.
The killing feels covered all over Cambodia in the hundreds. Hundreds and hundreds of areas where bodies were buried like this. Such a sad time where all the youth were indoctrinated and turned on their seniors... sad story. I have visited this location and and other spots in p phemm Camp s21 in the City is sobering. . I will be over in Thailand at some point soon so I'll pop in for pint. Watching your TH-cam channel since Danny's place with little Nick. Also had a few beers and shots with you in the hass. Was a messy 7 days and spent a good amount lol.
Was there in Aoril this year. Very humbling and sad. You should have went over to shop there there were a number of books you could have purchased all about KHMER ROUGE
@@NDTViThailand I agree with that. But you said socialism always leads to communism and by extension, genocide. And I think you meant authoritarianism. Surely someone from UK must have enjoyed some socialist benefits, and there was genocide there?
I went early 2022 and it changed me . I havnt been to the killing fields or anything to do with that part of Cambodia but the people are so friendly given their history . As for the change , I found a girlfriend and she is perfect
What's even crazier is how in the world does an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier end up serving as the elected prime minister of Cambodia from 1985 to 2023??? I get how he ultimately defected and joined the Vietnamese side, but how do you ever willingly participate with any organization like the Khmer Rouge? I've never been to the killing fields just because I know the history, having a good friend who was smuggled out to the US before his family was killed do to their education level and politics, and I never had the courage to see it in real life. More of our truly fucked up human history...
Hi, Nick. Thanks for sharing this, It reminds us that these things were happening, I was Twenty when all of this was happening, but being so far away from this reality meant that this didn't really hit home as it should have. We tend to think that this type of thing can't happen nowadays, but that isn't the case, it happens over and over again. in different parts of the world, maybe not to this extent but it happens. What Paul Pot did in Cambodia, is no different to what Stalin or Mao Zedong did. Mao killed hundreds of millions of his own people. When people get brainwashed into believing in an ideology then it is all too possible for this type of atrocity to happen. God forbid that we will ever see this type of atrocity again. Neil.
I haven't been to the concentration camps in Europe either. History is there as a reminder of what is possible, so hopefully people feel like you and that they could never do that to another human being. Unfortunately some people are just evil in this world.
I've been there too and it's truly horrific, however the statement that socialism leads to communism and this leads to genocide is an uneducated statement and is a gross over simplification. You do know it was the Vietnamese Communists who ended the Khmer rouge regime with their invasion in 1978? And it was the US bombing of Cambodia that drove people into the arms of this madman and his regime by displacing millions of people, which lead to rural Cambodians supporting the Khmer rouge? The US were backing the Khmer Rouge Govt unit the 1990's and they had a place at the UN because of US support.. There's an number of excellent books on the subject or a quick google, if you are interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of what happened and why. Capitalism has been responsible for untold genocides world wide, World wars and support for all sorts of dictators etc, etc but people don't go around saying, well capitalism always leads to genocide...
Pol Pot, Chairman Mao and Stalin were not capitalists and between them responsible for more than 100 million deaths in the 20th century. I'd say your comment is coming from an over educated idiot (brainwashed by woke TV). So American bombing led Pol Pot to genocide his own people? Wow.
@@NDTViThailand I appreciate the reply but the fact that you don't counter the facts and instead end with in insult about "wokeness" and "over educated idiot" is pretty crazy, ad hominem attacks are the refuge of the ignorant..lol . I spent many years in and going back and forth to Cambodia and my friend is a nurse who's been providing assistance to the Cambodians for over a decade and created a not for profit to help the country recover. In addition to reading about the subject I've also spoken to many Cambodians on the topic, so its not some "woke over educated opinion", its informed opinion. And and yes the American bombing in 1973 lead to a mass refugee crisis that in turn lead to support for the Khmer rouge regime is actually true, It's not really disputed, or the US backing of the Khmer rouge.. This isn't' from "woke TV". Britain by the way has been responsible for genocides and mass murder and starvation in the Americas, Australia, Ireland, Africa and India... Hitler was the leader of a capitalist state..the US capitalist state killed 4 million Vietnamese. My point is Capitalism is as potentially Barbarous as any of the isms as ideology leads to people doing all sorts of horrible things in the pursuit of "grand ideas" like the West bringing "Civilizing Christianity" to the "barbarians" or Pol Pot returning Cambodia to some weird idealized version of something that never really existed. You obviously have a bias towards capitalism because you're a capitalist 🙂. Hey, everyone has blind spots. You just need to read a couple of books and spend a little time in Cambodia and this wouldn't even have been a conversation.
I had the same feelings after visiting Aucshwitz, Dachau & the holocaust museum in Jerusalem. How the hell can 1 man convince so many others to commit the most horrendous crimes. It's never made sense to me & never will. Fair play for making this video Nick.
Because idiots follow orders and do not differentiate right from wrong. Every war fought in another homeland is testament to that! When you go to pacify another country you are the invader not the pacifier!
Visited here a few times when I lived in Cambodia. I believe we've been completely desensitized to this due to media, and in particular movies. Visiting a place like this rams home the horror of the not so distant past.
Did you buy the books from survivers at these sites ? Kampot was my favourite place when I visited cambodia for 1 month last year. I will try Thailand in 5 months its been 30years since I was in Thailand 🇹🇭 been to the Phillipines a million times 😂 !
I did the same thing get it over with early in the holiday then get on with the fun and if you go to anchor wat go to the water falls the next day great recovery from walking around temples all day !
amazing video Nick, Ive been to Hellfire pass a few times, however sad that was, it was war, Pol Pot and his regime did it to their own people, hard to fathom
Hi Nick very sad place,very moving and like you say was in our time.The tree where they killed the babies was was sad.Pol Pot died in his own home and think of all the people he killed and how he killed them.
The far right the far left. Both never work for ordinary people you’re very much right about Stalin ETC but do not forget chilli and other South American countries that suffered at the hands of fascism. I think we all agree extremism is no good for the world. 💙
Great video Nick. I have to disagree about the "socialism always leads to communism" quote though. Spain has had a socialist government few a years now, and several Scandanavian nations have alot of socialist aspects to their society. I don't think that any of them will end up as communist states.
I would say they are liberal democrats, not socialists, however let's not forget the start of the destruction of Sweden due to forced Muslim immigration
I do find it amazing what people will do to other people. These killings were not done by an organization or a government. They were done by individual people killing other individual people. It has happened before and unfortunately will probably happen again.
It was organized and implemented by individuals following the Chinese sponsored communist manifesto, landowners, poets, intellectuals, people wearing glasses were all seen as a threat to the great communist planned utopia, first demonised, then dehumanized then tortured, raped and killed. History rhymes and people either forget or are taught to believe "But communism was never really practiced".
My Khmer language teacher in grad school was one of the lucky ones who survived Pol Pot's regime. He told our class an emotional story once about being around 8 years old and working in the field after a heavy rain and seeing/catching a crab. The rules of the village under the KR at the time would have required him to bring the crab back and add it to a communal soup. Instead he was so hungry he was borderline starving (he hadn't had real protein in weeks) that he ate the crab raw in the field. I then visited the Killing Fields, & Tuol Sleng for the first time back in 2010. It really does leave an imprint on your heart..
😢 It's a big eye opener for the people who think any conflict is not without loss of life. I'm like you mate I was in my late teens when that happened and like you with the current conflict in Ukraine and yet again the UN is a toothless tiger it seems. Thanks for bring the video out mate, it's now on my bucket list to visit 😊
Matt, one of my best friends, went there years ago and it changed him, and like your friend in a way he wishes he’d never gone. Matt isn’t one for showing his emotions but he cried buckets when he told us what he had seen. Even his wife says Matt hasn’t been the same since going to the Killing Fields. Thanks for making this video Nick, it brings things home and we don’t know how lucky we are to an extent. May those poor people rest in peace; I hope they are in a better place. We’ve so much to learn as a species; arguably we don’t deserve this Earth. All the best Nick. Take care everyone.🙏🏻
I won't be able to get this out of my head and I don't think the horrors of what happened here have sunk in yet. Apparently the place stunk for years and they still find bones coming out of the ground daily now. There are no birds in the trees not even they will visit this place of evil.
Simonize ,I couldn't go and visit ,I got Emotional visiting The Burma Railway and everything connected to it .I stopped watching this 3 mins in 🤦♂But People do need to see this not knowing, I had my feel in Thailand ..To emotional 🥹
Nick, thanks for showing this. I visited a similar but smaller memorial when I was in Siem Reap in 2006. It leaves a lump in the throat and sadness in the heart.
Hey Nick. Brought back lots of Memories,I went 20 years ago, there was no filming then too. But I was able film on a small camera secretly, it was a lot different place then, but still overwhelming. Good video buddy.
I have been 3 times and shed a tear. S21 is a must visit in the city.
I went to college with a Vietnam war vet. He was a helicopter gunner. He told me that they were on the ground listening to President Nixon on the radio saying the US will not go into Cambodia. They were 10 miles inside the Cambodian border at that time. He felt pretty guilty about what happened there.
Great video Nick. I shed tears again
Nick explained it perfectly. Well done. Thank you for this valuable video. ❤️ Love to the Khmer people.
Well done Nick. Nicely balanced and thought provoking.
Fantastic blog Nick very well put together
Great vid, I didn't know about any of this. You have tough me something today & I am now going to start resourcing the subject. So sad this happened in modern times.
A film was made about it here is a link..
www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2044588706
Nick I remember reading the book called the killing Fields . It was the most emotionally book I have ever read. It made me truly realise how much wrong there is in our world. Thank you for this video nick. It is very touching and real.
Thanks mate. There is film I wanthed many years ago called The Killing Fields.
www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2044588706
Scott nailed it “…half of me wishes I’d just not come”. Exactly how I felt after visiting Dachau. It’s shocking how much more it affects you than you may have anticipated. Sickening ☮️
Half of these comments I want to give a love emoji usually it means thanks and I agree but I'm struggling with this video.
I felt exactly the same when I visited Dachau in Germany......I wish I had not gone :(
Chou Ek was originally a Chinese Cemetary. Takes courage to go there. Well done Nick for highlighting this place and what it stood for.👍🇰🇭🙏🏻
Yes mate I wondered why there were many Chinese graves and they were not touched.
I rememberseeing this on the tv in 1975 when i was 10, and its haunted me ever since.
I've seen several TH-cam videos on this and all have reduced me to tears. I would like to visit but I'm not sure I could handle it. I think Myanmar is pretty much going through the same right now, and like then, nobody does anything.
I was in Myanmar 6 years ago some of my first ever vlogs.
Thanks Nick, after watching this i don't think that I could bring myself to go there, Realy Distressing !!
We need to remember how Lucky we are, although many people think they are hard done by, until you see places like this
Cheers Mate
This is horrible how human can do to its own kind. RIP to the souls 😢
the guy who refused the aid via Paris Treaty is JOE BIDEN
A well done video 🙏. 27yrs since I was there, it's changed a bit, then you just drove up to were the skulls are kept. Always remember walking around and tripping over something, when I looked down there was an bone sticking out of the ground, pretty harrowing. A good book to read on it is The Stones Cry Out.
such an ugly history in such a beautiful country, thanks for sharing Nick, Cheers
Excellent vid. I was in high school when this was happening. Hard to comprehend.
Well presented Nick.....Since Pol Pot....So many more genocides Globally.....Do we never learn.
Good On You for documenting the Killing Fields......May they all be resting , and now in peace 8:33
Thanks for the video. I'll probably be on my last trip to Pattaya in January and this is on my to do list. I'm glad you prepared for what to expect.
Sad , thank you for sharing
I can't thank you enough for this.👍👍 😢
😞😢 Thank you Nick 🙏
If you haven't seen the film
www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2044588706
@@NDTViThailand Yes have seen it. A number of times actually. Thanks Nick.
Yes, very different video but thank you for making it and thank you for posting it. They are important reminders of what we are capable of, of what power in the wrong hands can lead to.
You should have gone to Tuol Sleng (S21) before going to Choeug Ek Genocide Centre (Killing Fields) you would then have followed the route the prisoners would have taken.
Both places are so very sad.
I have lived in Cambodia for nearly 6 years. The Cambodian people are the friendliest people one could wish to meet.
I hope after seeing the distressing side of Cambodia you can enjoy seeing some of the bright side of this wonderful country.
I perhaps should have done but after seeing this I couldn't have seen anymore in the same day.
i agree mate,S21 is where the torture started and then they sent them to Choeug EK.I certainly didnt feel like going out parting after that.
A truly moving video mate, thank you for the respect and emotive words and reflection of such barbaric times. God bless those dear people..
Thank you and God bless those poor souls.
I have more respect than any socialist has for human life
@@danielmadden5115Perhaps I should have been a true corporate fascist and worn Nike or Adidas to keep you happy.
Good Call@@NDTViThailand
As mentioned Toul Sleng detention Prison S21 in Phnom Penh (formerly a college pre 1975) The evidence of Atrocities are still there just as when the Vietnamese Army discovered the place in 1979. Just go see for yourself. Very good vlog Nick👍
I had the same feelings when i visited Auschwitz Concentration camp in Poland. Very difficult to be there but a necessary one, I think. Some American folks like to called disliked politicians a “Nazi” or “Hilter” and yet they’ve never been to places like this to realize how horrible someone like that actually was and how wrong it is to make such a characterization for political sake. And don’t forget, some people still believe it was all a myth.
thats the left for you, anyone who isn't left of centre must be a nazi
Visited man it was heart wrenching. Did you notice no birds sound. Scary.
Seething that UN did not stop. Very respectfully told.
Not just here Rwanda springs to mind. UN means uninvolved in peace.
🚨you're right where was the United Nations when that was going on good job👍
When I was there with my two kids aged 9 years and 11 years try to explain what went on with all the skulls extremely upsetting so we went to seim reip
Wakes you up a bit these type of vlogs, we are extremely lucky in life hey.
Yes mate I totally agree. We need to remember where we are living and it can go to shit at any moment it is volitile.
Definitely mate.
I'll see you in 4 weeks time. Martin in plymouth. Let me know if you need anything
Thank you Nick, not sure if I can visit that place, I watch it and cry maybe i will watch it again, so sad we haven’t learned anything from the past and not sure if we ever will, and your area so right where was the ultimate nations , again thank you 🙏
great video are to image this happened in our lifetime.
I remember visiting years ago. Very sad what humans can do to each other
Politics and religion cause this.
Sorry I mean most tragedies.
@@NDTViThailand very true sadly👍
It is important that videos like this are made and watched.
Totally agreed Edward history is there so we don't make the same mistakes.
Great video by the way
I was there in February, so sad going there and hearing all the stories, with all the bones and cloth you can see in the ground. The story about them bashing the babies against the tree was so awful :(
I have a love for your input. Thank you.
It a very distressing place to visit all those thousands of skulls piled up empty eye sockets looking out at you, S21 is an even more harrowing place to visit, I came out of there trying not to throw up.
I went to S21 first and then to The Killing Fields. It is essential to visit both if you are in Phnom Pehn but very distressing.
Nick I went there 10 years ago with a mate..we both were crying our eyes out at that baby tree..Shocking times Australian Government did nothing either..Pol Pot lived to an old age too ..😡..Your right about Socialism..!!
My god how could this happen . We must always be aware of where our lives are being lead , may they all rest in peace ! God bless .....
One word,,,,,sad ❤
sadly still happening not on the same scale " i hope" i was there in 97 it was a bit different then just a dirt track out to it no headphones but a guide it definetly had a humbling effect on me.
A few weeks ago I visited Ba Chúc just across the border in Vietnam where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge massacred more than 3,000 in 12 days in 1978 and triggered the Vietnamese to invade. Chilling. The monument is similarly very moving. Thanks for the vid.
Yes very chilling it's something I'll never forget.
I visited The Killing Fields along with Tuol Sleng last year. You have to do Tuol Sleng. Extremely powerful stuff.
One thing about The Killing Fields that I remember is the distinct smell as well. There was an aura of calmness but also a feeling of heartbreak.
Be sure to do the self-guided audio tour of Tuol Sleng as well. I cried like a baby at the end of that visit.
So sad that so many innocent people were murdered.
Hits home about how correct Trump was and is about a lot of things
Good to see you getting away from the business for a while gives you a chance to revitalise
Sad place the killing fields
Same as bridge over river kwai
I was there around 10 years ago walked the perimeter of the grounds. There were 2 ponds on the grounds where they threw the dead victims. As I continued walking I started to notice clothing and bones sticking out of the landscape. Chilling. The prison S-21 with the victims pictures on the walls is even more stark.
Been there too ... very sad....... S21 is a must visit as well ...
I couldn't face it after seeing this.
I went on a mini bus total silence on the way back to the city so so sad
Wow I really never knew
Thank you for sharing Nick. I share your sentiments. Just wrong, and will be repeated.
Such a truly moving video, when we ever learn😢
We never will sadly.
my brother died in the Vietnam war in 71, he never came home. it crushed my parents
An horrific war in unfamiliar terrain it was awful for those guys. I am sorry for you and your brother who you probably never got to know each property. 😥
Hi Nick, Was in Cambodia in 1994 (I think) with the UN. Looks like it has changed so very much.... Tuol Sleng prison was horrific, but when we actually toured the Phnom Penh Killing fields I recall it was out in the countryside (just outside Phnom Penh). The place you showed looks all built up now 😲
Yeah it is so built up I presumed it was already like this and there were locals already living there? It's literally 30 mins drive due to traffic outside of Phnom Penh.
Try the school museum in Central phnom penn.. just horrific..
I wanted to but after the Killing Fields I'd seen enough.
@NDTViThailand tuol sleng genocide museum .Fyi. yeah don't blame you. I came out feeling pretty sick..
The killing feels covered all over Cambodia in the hundreds. Hundreds and hundreds of areas where bodies were buried like this. Such a sad time where all the youth were indoctrinated and turned on their seniors... sad story. I have visited this location and and other spots in p phemm Camp s21 in the City is sobering. . I will be over in Thailand at some point soon so I'll pop in for pint. Watching your TH-cam channel since Danny's place with little Nick. Also had a few beers and shots with you in the hass. Was a messy 7 days and spent a good amount lol.
Over 300 mass graves in total the killing fields was for the local people those who disagreed with the Pol pot regime.
Thanks for sharing. All Gen Z and Millennial socialists should have to camp out here for a night.
UN or United Nations is a place where people meet and chill. Having a good time as Donald trump once told when he cut funds
I hope a worthy comment read Pol Pot the history of a nightmare by Phillip Short. Very informative.
Was there in Aoril this year. Very humbling and sad. You should have went over to shop there there were a number of books you could have purchased all about KHMER ROUGE
learn the difference between authoritarianism and democracy
Surely you wouldn't class the west as a democracy when you're given the choice of a two party system both two wings of the same bird?
@@soilentgreen7 it was only a suggestion. how you chose to read it is on you
@@NDTViThailand I agree with that. But you said socialism always leads to communism and by extension, genocide. And I think you meant authoritarianism. Surely someone from UK must have enjoyed some socialist benefits, and there was genocide there?
S21 will make you feel sick. As you said Nick it was not long ago. 🙏🙏anyway. I’ll be in Thailand in 4 weeks can’t wait.
I went early 2022 and it changed me . I havnt been to the killing fields or anything to do with that part of Cambodia but the people are so friendly given their history . As for the change , I found a girlfriend and she is perfect
That's more hurt full when u know they rather use shovel to unalive people because they think the bullet is more expensive than life
What's even crazier is how in the world does an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier end up serving as the elected prime minister of Cambodia from 1985 to 2023??? I get how he ultimately defected and joined the Vietnamese side, but how do you ever willingly participate with any organization like the Khmer Rouge? I've never been to the killing fields just because I know the history, having a good friend who was smuggled out to the US before his family was killed do to their education level and politics, and I never had the courage to see it in real life. More of our truly fucked up human history...
Mans inhumanity to man .Still happening today . We never learn
The worst part of the genocide is that it set Cambodia back 40 years
That's what happens when you murder all the interlectuals. Doctors, teachers etc..
Hi, Nick. Thanks for sharing this, It reminds us that these things were happening, I was Twenty when all of this was happening, but being so far away from this reality meant that this didn't really hit home as it should have. We tend to think that this type of thing can't happen nowadays, but that isn't the case, it happens over and over again. in different parts of the world, maybe not to this extent but it happens. What Paul Pot did in Cambodia, is no different to what Stalin or Mao Zedong did. Mao killed hundreds of millions of his own people. When people get brainwashed into believing in an ideology then it is all too possible for this type of atrocity to happen. God forbid that we will ever see this type of atrocity again.
Neil.
I haven't been to the concentration camps in Europe either. History is there as a reminder of what is possible, so hopefully people feel like you and that they could never do that to another human being. Unfortunately some people are just evil in this world.
I've been there too and it's truly horrific, however the statement that socialism leads to communism and this leads to genocide is an uneducated statement and is a gross over simplification. You do know it was the Vietnamese Communists who ended the Khmer rouge regime with their invasion in 1978? And it was the US bombing of Cambodia that drove people into the arms of this madman and his regime by displacing millions of people, which lead to rural Cambodians supporting the Khmer rouge? The US were backing the Khmer Rouge Govt unit the 1990's and they had a place at the UN because of US support.. There's an number of excellent books on the subject or a quick google, if you are interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of what happened and why. Capitalism has been responsible for untold genocides world wide, World wars and support for all sorts of dictators etc, etc but people don't go around saying, well capitalism always leads to genocide...
Pol Pot, Chairman Mao and Stalin were not capitalists and between them responsible for more than 100 million deaths in the 20th century. I'd say your comment is coming from an over educated idiot (brainwashed by woke TV). So American bombing led Pol Pot to genocide his own people? Wow.
@@NDTViThailand I appreciate the reply but the fact that you don't counter the facts and instead end with in insult about "wokeness" and "over educated idiot" is pretty crazy, ad hominem attacks are the refuge of the ignorant..lol . I spent many years in and going back and forth to Cambodia and my friend is a nurse who's been providing assistance to the Cambodians for over a decade and created a not for profit to help the country recover. In addition to reading about the subject I've also spoken to many Cambodians on the topic, so its not some "woke over educated opinion", its informed opinion. And and yes the American bombing in 1973 lead to a mass refugee crisis that in turn lead to support for the Khmer rouge regime is actually true, It's not really disputed, or the US backing of the Khmer rouge.. This isn't' from "woke TV". Britain by the way has been responsible for genocides and mass murder and starvation in the Americas, Australia, Ireland, Africa and India... Hitler was the leader of a capitalist state..the US capitalist state killed 4 million Vietnamese. My point is Capitalism is as potentially Barbarous as any of the isms as ideology leads to people doing all sorts of horrible things in the pursuit of "grand ideas" like the West bringing "Civilizing Christianity" to the "barbarians" or Pol Pot returning Cambodia to some weird idealized version of something that never really existed. You obviously have a bias towards capitalism because you're a capitalist 🙂. Hey, everyone has blind spots. You just need to read a couple of books and spend a little time in Cambodia and this wouldn't even have been a conversation.
I had the same feelings after visiting Aucshwitz, Dachau & the holocaust museum in Jerusalem. How the hell can 1 man convince so many others to commit the most horrendous crimes. It's never made sense to me & never will. Fair play for making this video Nick.
Because idiots follow orders and do not differentiate right from wrong. Every war fought in another homeland is testament to that!
When you go to pacify another country you are the invader not the pacifier!
Visited here a few times when I lived in Cambodia. I believe we've been completely desensitized to this due to media, and in particular movies. Visiting a place like this rams home the horror of the not so distant past.
Also surprised many people commented saying they didn't know about this genocide.
Did you buy the books from survivers at these sites ? Kampot was my favourite place when I visited cambodia for 1 month last year. I will try Thailand in 5 months its been 30years since I was in Thailand 🇹🇭 been to the Phillipines a million times 😂 !
In the start of the video I said I'm looking forward to seeing it but I regret saying it because it was horrifying.
I did the same thing get it over with early in the holiday then get on with the fun and if you go to anchor wat go to the water falls the next day great recovery from walking around temples all day
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Ancient people so brutal.😫😫😩😩
amazing video Nick, Ive been to Hellfire pass a few times, however sad that was, it was war, Pol Pot and his regime did it to their own people, hard to fathom
Very hard mate that's what makes it so chilling.
This will always happen as long as people are unarmed sheep that can be killed. Its going on in Africa now. Look at Libya ect ..
Unbelievable
C that's why I wear my mask 😷 it's real ...they lied and said those 🦴's were styrofoam 🤥
Horrific and scary Khmer Holocaust !!
Distressing stuff,hopefully a nightlife vlog b4 you leave??
I've been researching the nightlife for 3 nights and tonight I will go out to make a vlog.
did you hook up with Lucas while you were in Cambodia??
Blame it on Uncle Sam..
Hi Nick very sad place,very moving and like you say was in our time.The tree where they killed the babies was was sad.Pol Pot died in his own home and think of all the people he killed and how he killed them.
The far right the far left. Both never work for ordinary people you’re very much right about Stalin ETC but do not forget chilli and other South American countries that suffered at the hands of fascism. I think we all agree extremism is no good for the world. 💙
@@martinhowarth81 sorry dictating without my glasses🤷♂️
Politicians are the problem people need to govern themselves.
@@NDTViThailand yep 👍 your right
The prison is the place that got to me. I Don’t think you will do a video of that he’ll hole.
Sad 😞
Eerie 😢
Putin is heading down the same road
Great video Nick. I have to disagree about the "socialism always leads to communism" quote though.
Spain has had a socialist government few a years now, and several Scandanavian nations have alot of socialist aspects to their society. I don't think that any of them will end up as communist states.
I wouldn't really class them as socialist in the same way I would class Labour as socialist.
I would say they are liberal democrats, not socialists, however let's not forget the start of the destruction of Sweden due to forced Muslim immigration
I do find it amazing what people will do to other people. These killings were not done by an organization or a government. They were done by individual people killing other individual people. It has happened before and unfortunately will probably happen again.
It was organized and implemented by individuals following the Chinese sponsored communist manifesto, landowners, poets, intellectuals, people wearing glasses were all seen as a threat to the great communist planned utopia, first demonised, then dehumanized then tortured, raped and killed. History rhymes and people either forget or are taught to believe "But communism was never really practiced".