That’s great. What an amazing coincidence. I’ve yet to see the film but have been fascinated by the story of Sean Flynn for many years and once investigated the stretch of road near to the border where he disappeared. Thanks
Excellent video Karl. Thank you for sharing this tragic & important time in the history of oppressive regimes. Would love to see more of this content on historic times or historic places of other significance in Thailand or Southeast Asia that interest you. Very much appreciated in these times when autocratic governments are being voted in around world including my country.
That brought back memories. The silence at both S21 and the Killing Fields was so eerie. You could almost feel what had happened at both places. Remember the extremely bumpy dirt track out to the fields in a taxi with no air con. Strangely found my copy of First They Killed My Father this week. Great video Karl
Gday Karl. Great walk and talk mate, many u tubers including myself have vlogged Toul Sleng and the killing fields but hats off to you, you did it differently and to your own style.. well done, really enjoyed it.
Horrific times, hard to believe it was in my lifetime. Anyone interested in Sean Flynn should read Tim Page's book "Page After Page", he was best friends with Sean and Dana. I had the good fortune to meet Tim in the late 80s at a photography conference in Bradford, he wasn't a speaker, he's gone along to see some of his heroes like Bert Hardy who were speaking. I recognised him and went over for a chat, he was a lovely fella, but clearly still affected by what he'd seen. Great video, cheers Karl. PS why do you wear black in the hot sun?!
I am aware of Tim Page and did see a video about his attempts to trace Sean Flynn. It seems he was an interesting character and it must have been cool to meet and chat with him. I wear very light weight high wicking, quick dry clothes for hiking and tbh I don’t think the black color makes much difference. Cheers
@@karlsthailand wow I didn't see that one, will look it up! I saw some thermal images of different coloured clothes a while back and apparently white and yellow makes quite a lot of difference - I'm not sure how true it is, but I used to wear white T-shirts in summer when I used to live in Spain, it always felt better to me.
Great video Karl, super interesting, being a Aussie guy born in 1975 and at the same time this tragedy was occurring. I can’t believe the 3 Aussie guys that were killed I looked it up and found some interesting articles. You never hear about this in the media here at all, you would have thought this would have been a national outrage at the time. Thanks so much for this history and the way you presented it , brilliant mate.
Thanks Karl, this is a really important story. I hadn't heard about Sean Flynn before. I hope that the craziness that was in South East Asia never happens again.
I really love your channel Karl. I've read about this, but seeing the bones...that sign against the tree...it's so much more impactful then text in a book.
Those places are so 'real' to visit. The Killing Fields are a lot more sanitised than they were in the past but still impactful. Toul Sleng is still very authentic. Thank you
Thanks for another really great vid Karl and such a sad story to tell. In your vlog you gave mention to the fate of the war correspondent Sean Flynn who was the son of the famous Tasmanian born Hollywood actor. Sadly there was another acclaimed correspondent Neil Davis also born in Tasmanian btw, covering the war in Vietnam and Cambodia at that time. Neil had the reputation for being a bit of a lad in many of popular drinking establishments of the day and ended up filming his own death on the streets of Bangkok in yet another one of the many military coups that the Thais went thru in those crazy times.
You covered the story very well Karl, and the walk made it even more poignant. I've always wanted to walk the 65 mile Bataan Death March route from Mariveles to San Fernando in the Philippines over a couple of days. I was at the starting point monument by chance once, Right next to McDonalds! There are lots of markers on the road towards Angeles ...The last two minutes of your video were particularly harrowing..,,,Sean Flynn is a quite haunting track on The Clash's Combat Rock album which has a bit of a far eastern theme to it, with the album cover photo being taken in Bangkok.... Great work again Karl
My pleasure Mark, yes, that would be a great idea for a vlog. I was aware that Sean Flynn is a Clash track and saw Pat's video where he traced the location of the album cover. Cheers
Excellent video matey, I first when there in 2001 when it was a lot less sanitized for tourists and several times since. You never forget your first time!!
Thank you karl.i enjoy your work.i felt for the people as you told the story, also i feel it was brave of you to go their in 1996 .feel that cld be a story by its self .ive got it in my head that the film the beach was based on you is that true.Thanks again Karl
I appreciate that. No, it wasn't me but I do believe that I may have met the character that Daffy was based upon on Koh Samui in the late 80's. he was very similar and even met exactly the same fate. Cheers.
Its a difficult place to visit knowing its history , i get flashbacks about those chequered floor tiles. As always you give a great insight with absoslute respect. Thanks Karl.
Retired! don't Give Up Karl, I don't really know how to respond, I remember the movie The Killing Fields, but only vaguely, it was so long ago. Now that I live in South East Asia Its history is so much more prevalent in my mind, and the more chilling. Thank you for this journey and all the others you have shared. I hope that you and i will get to have long conversations about this and more on our yet to be planned excursion, Dave
Hi Karl that was really good,I can remember watching the TV series World in Action in about 1976 regarding the Khmer Rouge I was 15 years old I found it really quite disturbing and talking about it to my school mates. Then of course there was the Killing Fields a very good film in the mid 80s. I didn’t know about Sean Flynn I will try to find the Road to Freedom Film. Thank you for another great informative video I think you did really well walking the route it made the video more interesting however I can completely understand why you took a Tut Tut back 😂
Another great vlog, Sean Flynn is an interesting story which has many twists and turn. In fact, a fella named Dave McMillan from Australia with support from Sean Flynns mother in the US who was a french actress and a group of others know as the Bone Hunters aka MIA investigators got access to possible areas where Sean and Dana were buried. They did find the remains of foreigner's but not Sean or Danas but believe they were close to the spot but when higher up beaurocracy got involved they were shut down and expelled from Cambodia. Its out in TH-cam land i think that is the whole story and fills in the details of my rough summary of the events.
Yes, that’s right. I have seen a couple of videos about the search and like you say they found the remains but it turned out to two other foreigners who hijacked a ship and went to Phnom Penh. There were some reports from villagers as to what might have happened to Sean and Dana but it’s over 50 years ago now and unlikely that any new leads will emerge. A sad and interesting story for sure. Cheers
We visited the school as it was my partners back in happier times. When it got too much for her she went outside and stood in the shade with her hat held in front of her, tourists started to put money in her hat as they thought she was begging. She returned the money of course. Well done on doing the walk as I doubt I'd be able to do it.we have not made it to the killing fields yet.
Wow, do you mean that she was actually a student at the school before the KR took it over? if so it must have been especially traumatic for here. I can totally understand her reaction. Thank you.
our written.history of civilization never has enough stories. all those lives lost, and each one had a personal story to tell. that's deep stuff to think about.
I’d actually walked there at least twice before I started the channel. I was only too aware of the risks lol. did them shots very quickly, smash and grab style.
Those pool Souls May they rest in peace in Paradise Me and my old man Went to the killing fields it does show you Stupid ambitions to man to man. fantastic great Video mate
Enjoyed your walk there, Karl. Very economical. A man after my own heart. I was aware of the foreigners taken from from the yacht and murdered (one was a Geordie I seem to recall) and all threes photos are on the wall at Tuol Sleng, but I didn't know about Foxy Lady book. Will try and get hold of that. Some western, left-wing academic "admirers" of the regime, who visited the country (one was a Scotsman I read), became croppers of the regime too around the same time as when the yactsmen were abducted and murdered. Notably, Phnom Penh fell a few weeks before Saigon which I always thought Uncle Ho might have been taken back by. I know the number of foreigners who died pale into insignificance compared to Khmers, but I still think of the handful of westerners who died on the way to Sihanoukville even as late as the 90s by the KR - the young pionering couple who ran the restaurant up Ekareach St close to the corner where it goes up the hill of street 108 I understand and the 3 guys abducted from the train and murdered. A good book (in my opinion), which really scratches under the surface on the fall and rise of the KR, is Philip Short's 'Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare'. Francois Bizot's The Gate is another interesting read.
Thanks for your reply. Wasn’t trying to save any cash by walking lol. Just wanting to make my vlog a bit different from the others plus it gave me the time to talk. Thanks for correcting me about the timing of the US withdrawal from Saigon. I was aware of the tourists kidnapped and murdered on the 90’s and in my recent stories video about Phnom Penh I briefly tell a story where I met the friends of one of their mothers soon after it happened. I really think the story is becoming too distant these days and the lessons might need to be re-learned. I saw a recent video about the Western (Scandinavian) supporters of the KR government and found it very interesting. Cheers
I visited the areas in your vlog.. very poignant indeed.. it beggars belief what humanity is capable of.. I found the Cambodian people to be very friendly but, the country is very untidy and you can understand why.. it's a form of ptsd.. lovely place on the whole.. well worth visiting the country .. many great places to see.. fair play to you for walking.. I wouldn't tbh.. too bloody hot.
It was definitely hot lol, but it did give me the time I needed to say what I wanted to say. Yes, such a sad recent history that will take a long time to bounce back from. Cheers.
I went to that school a few years back and there was still a couple of guys working there that were actually imprisoned and only survived because I think one was an artist and one fixed small electrical items, are they still there Karl?
Yes, one of them was there, the guy who wrote the book and would sign copies but I already have a copy from a previous visit. That’s exactly it, they survived because they were useful in one way or another. Cheers
Yes, let's not forget that at first the Khmer people celebrated the arrival of the Khmer Rouge into Phnom Penh. People are easily deceived and that's as true today as it's ever been.
A few years ago l did the exact same trip. I've seen and visited a lot of things and places but this was literally unbelievable. The Khmer Rouge make the SS look like choirboys walking around concentration camps. While I admire how you outlined the place, people and conflict it was way more horrific than you're saying. Sub humans such as the khmer rouge still exist, brother number 2 died only a few years ago. China owns Cambodia. So many things you omitted.
Yes, that KR government was truly horrific. I realise it was a lot more horrific than I portrayed but this is TH-cam and there are limits to what us creators can publish. Also you have to remember that this is a vlog, not a complete history of the KR years, I just walked between the locations rather than jump on a Tuk Tuk and used the walk to share some of my personal thoughts. As for China’s influence over Cambodia, that’s subtly dealt with in my previous two vlogs if you read between the lines. Cheers
I was in Cambodia many times and the natives don’t talk about their dark period. As the Buddhist they forgot it.Of corse many had the scares left but they keep them too themself and they consider it as their business and not the business of other countries. They prosecuted the worst ones of the regime and stoped. International community told them to prosecute more of them. There answer was we came out of the civil war and we don’t want to restart another one. Why many barangs are obsessed with that period. Is business of Khmer people not the white superpowers.The Khmers do not talk about it with foreigners And as the Buddhist they didn’t want the killing fields museum They burn the death .Of course the international globalist wouldn’t help developing and helping Cambodia if they didn’t do the killing field museum. the Khmers just want to go with their life
We should all ponder this collective psychosis that enabled this barbarism. There is an interview with Pol pot. Not his actual name, available on the net, in which he comes across as fairly normal. War obviously traumatises all involved, so the lesson has to be. Don't get into one. Find another way to resolve conflict. Peace ✌️ ☮️. Good work karl.
I recently saw an interview with Noun Chea, second in charge, he came across the same. I got the feeling he had no regrets and really believed he was acting logically. That's the problem when people believe their own delusions. Thank you.
China and US created the Khmer Rouge. China and US supported the Khmer Rouge in the 70s and 80s . China and US owes the Cambodian people an apology for the pain and suffering they caused
Yes, people forget that the KR carried on for a couple of decades after their government was overthrown. My first 2 visits in 96 and 97 were also during that period when foreigners were still occasionally kidnapped and killed by them.
My brother was the director of the film "The Road To Freedom" about Sean Flynn
That’s great. What an amazing coincidence. I’ve yet to see the film but have been fascinated by the story of Sean Flynn for many years and once investigated the stretch of road near to the border where he disappeared. Thanks
@karlsthailand yeah sad but fascinating story.
Excellent video Karl. Thank you for sharing this tragic & important time in the history of oppressive regimes. Would love to see more of this content on historic times or historic places of other significance in Thailand or Southeast Asia that interest you. Very much appreciated in these times when autocratic governments are being voted in around world including my country.
I do have at least one more vlog coming up with a bit of history to it. Cheers
Thank you for the walk and for taking us there, Karl !!!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks again
Spot on, i remember visiting many years ago, and i didn't hear a sound from any tourists while at this prison, just the birds singing above.
It’s still a very authentic experience, even after all these years. Thanks
That brought back memories. The silence at both S21 and the Killing Fields was so eerie. You could almost feel what had happened at both places. Remember the extremely bumpy dirt track out to the fields in a taxi with no air con.
Strangely found my copy of First They Killed My Father this week.
Great video Karl
Cheers Andrew, thanks for your own thoughts and hope you are well.
Gday Karl. Great walk and talk mate, many u tubers including myself have vlogged Toul Sleng and the killing fields but hats off to you, you did it differently and to your own style.. well done, really enjoyed it.
yes, I wanted to do something a bit different. I just looked for your video but couldn't find it. What's it called?
Horrific times, hard to believe it was in my lifetime. Anyone interested in Sean Flynn should read Tim Page's book "Page After Page", he was best friends with Sean and Dana. I had the good fortune to meet Tim in the late 80s at a photography conference in Bradford, he wasn't a speaker, he's gone along to see some of his heroes like Bert Hardy who were speaking. I recognised him and went over for a chat, he was a lovely fella, but clearly still affected by what he'd seen. Great video, cheers Karl. PS why do you wear black in the hot sun?!
I am aware of Tim Page and did see a video about his attempts to trace Sean Flynn. It seems he was an interesting character and it must have been cool to meet and chat with him. I wear very light weight high wicking, quick dry clothes for hiking and tbh I don’t think the black color makes much difference. Cheers
@@karlsthailand wow I didn't see that one, will look it up! I saw some thermal images of different coloured clothes a while back and apparently white and yellow makes quite a lot of difference - I'm not sure how true it is, but I used to wear white T-shirts in summer when I used to live in Spain, it always felt better to me.
Another great informative video Karl - thanks for the efforts
Thanks for watching Ian.
Great video Karl, super interesting, being a Aussie guy born in 1975 and at the same time this tragedy was occurring. I can’t believe the 3 Aussie guys that were killed I looked it up and found some interesting articles. You never hear about this in the media here at all, you would have thought this would have been a national outrage at the time. Thanks so much for this history and the way you presented it
, brilliant mate.
Thanks Karl, this is a really important story. I hadn't heard about Sean Flynn before. I hope that the craziness that was in South East Asia never happens again.
There are lessons to be learned for sure Shaun. Even today. Cheers
I really love your channel Karl. I've read about this, but seeing the bones...that sign against the tree...it's so much more impactful then text in a book.
Those places are so 'real' to visit. The Killing Fields are a lot more sanitised than they were in the past but still impactful. Toul Sleng is still very authentic. Thank you
Thanks for another really great vid Karl and such a sad story to tell.
In your vlog you gave mention to the fate of the war correspondent Sean Flynn who was the son of the famous Tasmanian born Hollywood actor. Sadly there was another acclaimed correspondent Neil Davis also born in Tasmanian btw, covering the war in Vietnam and Cambodia at that time. Neil had the reputation for being a bit of a lad in many of popular drinking establishments of the day and ended up filming his own death on the streets of Bangkok in yet another one of the many military coups that the Thais went thru in those crazy times.
I think I have heard that story, possibly the 1975 Thailand coup that was very bloody. crazy times indeed.
You covered the story very well Karl, and the walk made it even more poignant. I've always wanted to walk the 65 mile Bataan Death March route from Mariveles to San Fernando in the Philippines over a couple of days. I was at the starting point monument by chance once, Right next to McDonalds! There are lots of markers on the road towards Angeles ...The last two minutes of your video were particularly harrowing..,,,Sean Flynn is a quite haunting track on The Clash's Combat Rock album which has a bit of a far eastern theme to it, with the album cover photo being taken in Bangkok.... Great work again Karl
My pleasure Mark, yes, that would be a great idea for a vlog. I was aware that Sean Flynn is a Clash track and saw Pat's video where he traced the location of the album cover. Cheers
Always happy about a new episode of the brother of Mr. Proper / Mr. Clean ... ;)
I had to Google it lol
Excellent video matey, I first when there in 2001 when it was a lot less sanitized for tourists and several times since. You never forget your first time!!
Yes, The Killing Fields are a lot more sanitised these days but both are still haunting places to visit. Indeed, you never forget. Cheers.
Really interesting and thought provoking video Karl.
Tragic events and must be a very sombre place to visit.
Thanks. I’ve been there many times and it never fails to have an impact on me.
Great video Karl.I was there the first time 1993.So much history.
Toul Sleng is still very authentic but the killing fields are a lot more sanitised these days. Cheers
Very well made video, Karl! When we're all looking to the far right, the far left arrive as wolves in sheeps' clothing.
Thanks Jimmy. I agree, we all need to be vigilant lest history repeats itself!
Thanks Karl. Sad, but the story needs to be remembered… You did a great job. Thanks again Jim
Glad you enjoyed it Jim
Thank you karl.i enjoy your work.i felt for the people as you told the story, also i feel it was brave of you to go their in 1996 .feel that cld be a story by its self .ive got it in my head that the film the beach was based on you is that true.Thanks again Karl
I appreciate that. No, it wasn't me but I do believe that I may have met the character that Daffy was based upon on Koh Samui in the late 80's. he was very similar and even met exactly the same fate. Cheers.
Its a difficult place to visit knowing its history , i get flashbacks about those chequered floor tiles. As always you give a great insight with absoslute respect. Thanks Karl.
Thank you very much! it is indeed a haunting experience visiting both places
Hello, a very nice and interesting tour. Best regards 😊👍
Thank you so much
Retired! don't Give Up
Karl, I don't really know how to respond, I remember the movie The Killing Fields, but only vaguely, it was so long ago. Now that I live in South East Asia Its history is so much more prevalent in my mind, and the more chilling. Thank you for this journey and all the others you have shared. I hope that you and i will get to have long conversations about this and more on our yet to be planned excursion, Dave
Yes, when I watched those news reels so long ago I had no idea that I would actually visit these places in the future. Sounds good, cheers
Cracking video Karl. Really enjoyed it.
Cheers Toby
Fantastic video Karl, very informative talk and walk!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback Ollie!
great video as always
Cheers Paul
An interesting video and a very noble thing to do Karl.
Cheers Greg. Walking it gave me the time to share my thoughts.
Hi Karl that was really good,I can remember watching the TV series World in Action in about 1976 regarding the Khmer Rouge I was 15 years old I found it really quite disturbing and talking about it to my school mates. Then of course there was the Killing Fields a very good film in the mid 80s. I didn’t know about Sean Flynn I will try to find the Road to Freedom Film.
Thank you for another great informative video I think you did really well walking the route it made the video more interesting however I can completely understand why you took a Tut Tut back 😂
Cheers. I think it was "Weekend World" I saw, something about the last bridge. I thought I'd earned that tuk tuk ride lol
Another great vlog, Sean Flynn is an interesting story which has many twists and turn. In fact, a fella named Dave McMillan from Australia with support from Sean Flynns mother in the US who was a french actress and a group of others know as the Bone Hunters aka MIA investigators got access to possible areas where Sean and Dana were buried. They did find the remains of foreigner's but not Sean or Danas but believe they were close to the spot but when higher up beaurocracy got involved they were shut down and expelled from Cambodia. Its out in TH-cam land i think that is the whole story and fills in the details of my rough summary of the events.
Yes, that’s right. I have seen a couple of videos about the search and like you say they found the remains but it turned out to two other foreigners who hijacked a ship and went to Phnom Penh. There were some reports from villagers as to what might have happened to Sean and Dana but it’s over 50 years ago now and unlikely that any new leads will emerge. A sad and interesting story for sure. Cheers
We visited the school as it was my partners back in happier times. When it got too much for her she went outside and stood in the shade with her hat held in front of her, tourists started to put money in her hat as they thought she was begging. She returned the money of course. Well done on doing the walk as I doubt I'd be able to do it.we have not made it to the killing fields yet.
Wow, do you mean that she was actually a student at the school before the KR took it over? if so it must have been especially traumatic for here. I can totally understand her reaction. Thank you.
@@karlsthailand Sorry I just clarified with her. I misunderstood. She went to school in Battambang. Thats a high school so she was younger than that.
Ok. Thanks for the reply
Great Video Karl thanks for posting
Gald you enjoyed it. Thank you
Enjoyed that, an education.
Thanks Stuart, I had a lot of time to think and talk on that walk.
Prisoner of class is a good reading and somewhat of a timecapsule 👍
I just looked it up. It does look like a very good book and written nearer to the time too. Cheers
our written.history of civilization never has enough stories. all those lives lost, and each one had a personal story to tell. that's deep stuff to think about.
There are lessons to be learned Donald, even today. Cheers
thanks Karl!
My pleasure. Thanks
that was a great idea to walk there, you've got big balls leaving your phone on the side at least twice lol
I’d actually walked there at least twice before I started the channel. I was only too aware of the risks lol. did them shots very quickly, smash and grab style.
Those pool Souls May they rest in peace in Paradise Me and my old man Went to the killing fields it does show you Stupid ambitions to man to man. fantastic great Video mate
Yes Nigel, both of those places leave a lasting impression. Cheers buddy
Enjoyed your walk there, Karl. Very economical. A man after my own heart.
I was aware of the foreigners taken from from the yacht and murdered (one was a Geordie I seem to recall) and all threes photos are on the wall at Tuol Sleng, but I didn't know about Foxy Lady book. Will try and get hold of that.
Some western, left-wing academic "admirers" of the regime, who visited the country (one was a Scotsman I read), became croppers of the regime too around the same time as when the yactsmen were abducted and murdered.
Notably, Phnom Penh fell a few weeks before Saigon which I always thought Uncle Ho might have been taken back by.
I know the number of foreigners who died pale into insignificance compared to Khmers, but I still think of the handful of westerners who died on the way to Sihanoukville even as late as the 90s by the KR - the young pionering couple who ran the restaurant up Ekareach St close to the corner where it goes up the hill of street 108 I understand and the 3 guys abducted from the train and murdered.
A good book (in my opinion), which really scratches under the surface on the fall and rise of the KR, is Philip Short's 'Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare'. Francois Bizot's The Gate is another interesting read.
Thanks for your reply. Wasn’t trying to save any cash by walking lol. Just wanting to make my vlog a bit different from the others plus it gave me the time to talk. Thanks for correcting me about the timing of the US withdrawal from Saigon. I was aware of the tourists kidnapped and murdered on the 90’s and in my recent stories video about Phnom Penh I briefly tell a story where I met the friends of one of their mothers soon after it happened. I really think the story is becoming too distant these days and the lessons might need to be re-learned. I saw a recent video about the Western (Scandinavian) supporters of the KR government and found it very interesting. Cheers
I visited the areas in your vlog.. very poignant indeed.. it beggars belief what humanity is capable of.. I found the Cambodian people to be very friendly but, the country is very untidy and you can understand why.. it's a form of ptsd.. lovely place on the whole.. well worth visiting the country .. many great places to see.. fair play to you for walking.. I wouldn't tbh.. too bloody hot.
It was definitely hot lol, but it did give me the time I needed to say what I wanted to say. Yes, such a sad recent history that will take a long time to bounce back from. Cheers.
Good Vlog/Doco Karl
Thanks for watching. Cheers
Hi Karl, brings back memories of our trip in Cambodia.
How can I contact you these days?
I was there in 2001, very sombre place.
For sure, they are both very 'real' places.
Dreadful what happened it’s horrifying what mankind can do to each other 😱🙏🏻🙏🏻
For sure and thanks for your support of my channel.
Difficult to watch, but thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
I went to that school a few years back and there was still a couple of guys working there that were actually imprisoned and only survived because I think one was an artist and one fixed small electrical items, are they still there Karl?
Yes, one of them was there, the guy who wrote the book and would sign copies but I already have a copy from a previous visit. That’s exactly it, they survived because they were useful in one way or another. Cheers
It can and will happen again down the road in some other country, very sad. Medieval torture in the 20th century.
Yes, let's not forget that at first the Khmer people celebrated the arrival of the Khmer Rouge into Phnom Penh. People are easily deceived and that's as true today as it's ever been.
Yes look what just happened in my Country 😱
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Thank you.
A few years ago l did the exact same trip.
I've seen and visited a lot of things and places but this was literally unbelievable.
The Khmer Rouge make the SS look like choirboys walking around concentration camps.
While I admire how you outlined the place, people and conflict it was way more horrific than you're saying.
Sub humans such as the khmer rouge still exist, brother number 2 died only a few years ago.
China owns Cambodia.
So many things you omitted.
Yes, that KR government was truly horrific. I realise it was a lot more horrific than I portrayed but this is TH-cam and there are limits to what us creators can publish. Also you have to remember that this is a vlog, not a complete history of the KR years, I just walked between the locations rather than jump on a Tuk Tuk and used the walk to share some of my personal thoughts. As for China’s influence over Cambodia, that’s subtly dealt with in my previous two vlogs if you read between the lines. Cheers
I was in Cambodia many times and the natives don’t talk about their dark period.
As the Buddhist they forgot it.Of corse many had the scares left but they keep them too themself and they consider it as their business and not the business of other countries.
They prosecuted the worst ones of the regime and stoped.
International community told them to prosecute more of them.
There answer was we came out of the civil war and we don’t want to restart another one.
Why many barangs are obsessed with that period.
Is business of Khmer people not the white superpowers.The Khmers do not talk about it with foreigners
And as the Buddhist they didn’t want the killing fields museum
They burn the death .Of course the international globalist wouldn’t help developing and helping Cambodia if they didn’t
do the killing field museum. the Khmers just want to go with their life
Well I guess that’s their right if that’s how they feel about it.
We should all ponder this collective psychosis that enabled this barbarism. There is an interview with Pol pot. Not his actual name, available on the net, in which he comes across as fairly normal. War obviously traumatises all involved, so the lesson has to be. Don't get into one. Find another way to resolve conflict. Peace ✌️ ☮️. Good work karl.
I recently saw an interview with Noun Chea, second in charge, he came across the same. I got the feeling he had no regrets and really believed he was acting logically. That's the problem when people believe their own delusions. Thank you.
China and US created the Khmer Rouge. China and US supported the Khmer Rouge in the 70s and 80s . China and US owes the Cambodian people an apology for the pain and suffering they caused
Yes, those US bombing raids in the early 70's were disgusting and the KR's links with China are a well established fact. Cheers.
Psychotics have no bounds. I was there when Pol Pot was in western Cambodia
Yes, people forget that the KR carried on for a couple of decades after their government was overthrown. My first 2 visits in 96 and 97 were also during that period when foreigners were still occasionally kidnapped and killed by them.
Unbelievable barbarity by the Khmer Rouge. Thanks for your video telling the story of events😢.
Yes, they possessed a special kind of craziness. Cheers