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@@Ida-xe8pg Khmer Rouge they make a invasion Vietnam country first.. They keep killing thousands innocent vietnamese people at border line in 3 years long, Viet Nam government get scare too..
i'm full cambodian, first gen american. thanks for doing this. most of the time when i mention my parent's history and the khmer rouge no one seems to know what it is. my dad's walked cross country for months at a time, making three round trips barefoot through jungle and minefields to lead his family out of the country. the craziest thing i hear is that the way he was able to tell where to step was by taking into account the corpses on the ground and the blast radius- the closer to an exploded mine the safer you were, since mines had to be placed some amount apart. imagining my dad at 16 sleeping with corpses is sobering as hell.
As a Chinese, I am ashamed and saddened by the Chinese government's support for the cruel Khmer Rouge in the past. I want to express my deepest apologies to the Cambodian people and ask for your forgiveness.
@@alexanderkorol677 then I would say you are brainwashed by your government's propagandas, a Nation's interest is above everything, putting emotions on politics is just no more than an act of childish
@@alexanderkorol677 So what? it brings people out of poverty and provide a stable society, I don't want my kid to live in a place like Iraq, people in Iraq don't have pollution or so-call governmental oppression,but do you want to go there? Hell no
In the US media the Vietnamese were villianized as a result of the Vietnam war. Yet the Vietnamese wiped the Khmer Rogue out of government. If not for Vietnam they'd still be in charge. If not for the US losing the Vietnam war, and the larger reunified Vietnam invading Cambodia in response to the Khmer invading them, then the Khmer regime would have held on longer. Some Cambodian child or adult survived because of Vietnamese actions. Maybe someone here right now. Maybe even a fellow American today. Irony to an American brought up in total American cultural programming. Worse yet, knowledge that the CIA may have initially assisted the Khmer Rogue. The ideology never was Capitalism vs Communism, but a chessboard. The Khmer were a death cult. The US, French, Soviets, and Chinese influencers in the region. But the Vietnamese had just fought, a Civil War, against the US military, and a war of independence of sorts. Later they'd fight off a Chinese invasion. Communists invading Communists? Capitalists backing Death Cults that originally claimed to be Communists who were defeated by Communists? Again it was never about Communism vs Capitalism. Makes you rethink who your villains once were. Makes you think about the hidden heroes you never saw in the former villains you were told to villianize. Maybe the Vietnamese aren't the monsters our propaganda in the Vietnam era, told us they were, maybe they weren't bad people, or villains, maybe they were someone's heroes, someone who survived longer because that despicable Khmer regime was ousted. Maybe Rambo movies don't hold the same feelings they once held, and the old Vietnam movies feel less we did our best, and more why the hell were we there? It's wasn't our war, and we were wrong. The spread of Communism you say? Then why were Communists (PR China) invading Communists (Vietnam) because they responded to an attack by self proclaimed Communists in reality a death cult (Khmer). Reality is gray. Politics are muddy. Ideologies mean little to players, opportunists, and cults.
@@vicinte Still they are better than both US and China, one just retreat back home being sore loser condemning VN's action although they themselves doing nothing to help Cambodia. The other keep on supporting Khmer Rouge even when their Chinese civilians in Cambodia were being massacres.
@@vicinte They helped Khmer Rouge because they were promise alliance while the Cambodia government at the time is likely to shake hand with the South VN, and the path North VN use to support communism party in the south run along Cambodia. They must take on that chance in order to continue supporting the South resistance, they didn't think Khmer Rouge would causing such atrocities to their own people, they merely helping a fellow communism "fight for the people" or so Khmer Rouge claims. Needles to say once the atrocities that Khmer Rouge have done unfold, VN quickly sever ties with them and actually done something about it, invade Cambodia the second time and even left Cambodia with the newly raise government, wonder if American would be so nice after doing such thing. And please don't say stuff like "we only lost because people back home protest" You are already on the losing side before the election happened, after suffer the endless skirmishers, US soldier losing the will to fight, some even show insubordination to their officers. US stopped sending troops in, instead using South VN soldiers to fight for them. The communism in the South already rally enough people to start an insurgency. Bombing run and chemical warfare as an attempt to break North VN morale was futile, It was matter of time before the South fall, and American just waiting a sign to pull out.
This is something cambodians will never admit. They are ungrateful and have an irrational hatred towarda vietnam. If.vietnam didnt go to cambodia these cambos wouldn't even be here alive but 6 feet deep underground.
I am 🇰🇭 Cambodian and this video means so much to me ,thanks to all the people who save lives of the next generation,I feel terrible to everyone who passed away at the time ,but also thanks 🙏 them who survived!😭😢
WE DON'T REALLY KNOW IF THOSE KHMER ROUGE ARE GONE. OR NOT. WE NEEDS TO TEACH THIS HORRIFIED HISTORY TO THE CAMBODIAN STUDENTS. WE MUST MAKE SURE THIS HORRIFIED HISTORY WILL NEVER TO BE REPEATED,.
Tôi đến từ Việt Nam và tôi rất buồn vì dân campuchia nói chúng tôi cướp đất, nếu cướp thì chúng tôi chỉ cần đóng biên giới Polpot sẽ tàn sát dân campuchia hết, rồi cướp sau,
Could've watched months more about japan, but Cambodia is basically non-covered. There is so much to find about japan, but not Cambodia, so I'm glad for this change!
The 80s was hard for Vietnam. The country had just finished the fight with the world most powerful army. We didn't even have a chance to begin rebuilding the country. For more than 10 years, we had to fight agaisnt Khmer Rouge guerrilla in Cambodia and fight skirmishes at the border with China meanwhile being sanctioned by both US and China.
Dino Cism However the Khmer people always had a grudge against Vietnam since they invaded Cambodia multiple times and mostly literally took its south territory
@@wat1614 Get your fact straight. Vietnam and Cambodia for a thousand year don't share any border, that was under Suryavarman II, from 1128-1138, Khmer Empire at that time expanded to the North took over the land of Laos today, invade Vietnam 3 times, sometime with the help of ancient China, and Champa, and got their ass kick each time, when Champa no longer help them fight Vietnam, they invaded Champa too. In 18th century Vietnam expanded to the South and take both Champa and part of Khmer Empire. Not only it's Cambodia invaded Vietnam first, it all happened hundreds of years ago. So where's that grudge comes from? It's all Deng Xiaoping and Pol Pot's propaganda to force Cambodian against Vietnam in the past. Now, Xi Jinping and Hunsen use it to control their people, so Hunsen can stay in power with the backing of Beijing, and China have a new province.
@010101Gaming actually my middle school teacher survived it. He came to America as a refuge while he was young and for the two years I had him, he was pretty sane but I'm sure he still has some type of trauma
There were 4 families in a suburb call “the World”: America - the richest and most powerful, China -the second richest and powerful, Vietnam - a poor but brave family living in a house just in front of China’s, Cambodia - a poor family who live in the right of Vietnam’s house. Not long ago, America intruded into Vietnam’s garden and beat his wife and son badly for some unclear reasons, Vietnam stood up and chased America out of his garden, although he got several injures. During that time, Cambodia told China about his will to erase his current family to free himself for a new marriage and got China support. China gave him money to buy gun and promise to keep quiet. While Vietnam was putting bandage on his wife’s and his own wounds from the fight with America, Cambodia quietly came over to Vietnam’s garden and stabbed Vietnam’s son who was playing there. Hearing his son’s scream desperately, Vietnam rushed out to see his son in a blood pond. He could only have enough time calling his wife to take care of the poor boy and ran followed Cambodia. Cambodia ran back home and locked his wife and daughter in a room, shoot one of his son in his head, beat the other son till dead, and kept hitting his wife and toddle who were tied to a chair. Vietnam was in front of Cambodia’s house knocking on the door to ask Cambodia out to talk; in reply he could only hear Cambodia’s wife and little toddle scream in dismay. The whole neighbourhood heard the scream. China turned his music loud pretending he could not hear anything. People from other nearby houses peered their heads out of their windows asking what’s happening? America knew Cambodia’s wife and children were in danger but because all of his hatred to Vietnam he just hoped Cambodia would kill Vietnam too. So America shouted to everybody to get back to their houses, nothing wrong. At this state, Vietnam decided to break into Cambodia’s window, ran through the kitchen, up to the bedroom where Cambodia’s stabbing nonstop his wife. He broke in the room, fought Cambodia to the floor, got shot in his leg but managed to tie Cambodia’s hands. China saw it all, he ran out in front of Cambodia’s house and shouted to all neighbours, “Vietnam intruded Cambodia, I’ll teach him a lesson”. And there he ran to Vietnam’s house with his son holding the sharpest knives that they have; they broke the door and immediately stabbed Vietnam’s injured wife and son. Vietnam’s wife bravely fought back, got many wound but managed to badly injure China. Vietnam’s wife let China and his son to withdraw and she hurried back to her son who was bleeding on the floor. On the way out, China and his son destroyed the whole Vietnam’s kitchen. In front of Cambodia’s house, all neighbours were drawn by America and China and were shouting at Vietnam who was inside, condemned his action as an intruder and asking him out to give his hand up. Nobody care to Vietnam’s wife and son who were begging for help just nearby. Vietnam untied Cambodia’s wife and toddle, gave them a knife to protect themselves, and then decided to go back home to take his wife and son to hospital. When Vietnam’s gone, all neighbours got in and called police to catch the already tied Cambodia. On the way Vietnam drove his car to hospital, people yelled at him for his intrusion into Cambodia’s house. Sometime later, Cambodia’s wife and toddle recovered, and now lived in the house with no man. China is tempted by Cambodia’s wife, they have kept flirting recently. To bribe Cambodia’s daughter, China have bought a lot of sweet for her. This naïve little girl enjoys the sweet so much that now she likes China more than anyone else. And as her memory about what happened faded away, she even starts learning Vietnam hatred from China. At Cambodia’s tribunal, he was the only one who faced the verdict, the one who gave him support was not named. America and other neighbours got medals for their courage acts. Vietnam’s name was never mentioned. However, in some of their accusation, Cambodia’s wife and daughter blame Vietnam for intruding into their house and ask for his compensation for their broken windows and doors. When being asked about “gratitude”, they answer “We could have been able to free ourselves without Vietnam’s intervention”There were 4 families in a suburb call “the World”: America - the richest and most powerful, China -the second richest and powerful, Vietnam - a poor but brave family living in a house just in front of China’s, Cambodia - a poor family who live in the right of Vietnam’s house. Not long ago, America intruded into Vietnam’s garden and beat his wife and son badly for some unclear reasons, Vietnam stood up and chased America out of his garden, although he got several injures. During that time, Cambodia told China about his will to erase his current family to free himself for a new marriage and got China support. China gave him money to buy gun and promise to keep quiet. While Vietnam was putting bandage on his wife’s and his own wounds from the fight with America, Cambodia quietly came over to Vietnam’s garden and stabbed Vietnam’s son who was playing there. Hearing his son’s scream desperately, Vietnam rushed out to see his son in a blood pond. He could only have enough time calling his wife to take care of the poor boy and ran followed Cambodia. Cambodia ran back home and locked his wife and daughter in a room, shoot one of his son in his head, beat the other son till dead, and kept hitting his wife and toddle who were tied to a chair. Vietnam was in front of Cambodia’s house knocking on the door to ask Cambodia out to talk; in reply he could only hear Cambodia’s wife and little toddle scream in dismay. The whole neighbourhood heard the scream. China turned his music loud pretending he could not hear anything. People from other nearby houses peered their heads out of their windows asking what’s happening? America knew Cambodia’s wife and children were in danger but because all of his hatred to Vietnam he just hoped Cambodia would kill Vietnam too. So America shouted to everybody to get back to their houses, nothing wrong. At this state, Vietnam decided to break into Cambodia’s window, ran through the kitchen, up to the bedroom where Cambodia’s stabling nonstop his wife. He broke in the room, fought Cambodia to the floor, got shot in his leg but managed to tie Cambodia’s hands. China saw it all, he ran out in front of Cambodia’s house and shouted to all neighbours, “Vietnam intruded Cambodia, I’ll teach him a lesson”. And there he ran to Vietnam’s house, broke the door and immediately stabbed Vietnam’s injured wife and son. Vietnam’s wife bravely fought back, got many wound but managed to badly injure China. Vietnam’s wife let China to withdraw and she hurried back to her son who was bleeding on the floor. On the way out, China destroyed the whole Vietnam’s kitchen. In front of Cambodia’s house, all neighbours were drawn by America and China and were shouting at Vietnam who was inside, condemned his action as an intruder and asking him out to give his hand up. Nobody care to Vietnam’s wife and son who were begging for help just nearby. Vietnam untied Cambodia’s wife and toddle, gave them a knife to protect themselves, and then decided to go back home to take his wife and son to hospital. When Vietnam’s gone, all neighbours got in and called police to catch the already tied Cambodia. On the way Vietnam drove his car to hospital, people yelled at him for his intrusion into Cambodia’s house.
The Khmer Rouge was the craziest regime in the 20th Century, and possibly the craziest in history. What kind of regime kills so many of its own people that the country starts to collapse, and therefore the regime itself? And the country would have totally collapsed even without the Vietnamese invasion, just many more people would have died first.
If they kept to kill their own people, Cambodia would've been without any human being by now. A state without its own people has no sense. So the regime of the Khmer Rouge had no sense itself.
Venetian Lion One thing you need to know tho. The soldiers were all brain washed teenagers. It also worst because they are killing teachers, doctors, governors, singers......basically anyone who have some sort of educational background. They think it’s unfair that educated people (people who live in the city) are all live in the luxurious. They want to make a country with no social class so they evacuated people in the City to countryside to experience “what people in the countryside gone through” People have to hide their profession if they don’t want to get killed. It was very hard for our country after the regime because 90 percent of educated people were all gone.
@@neathsuon3895 So wait you're telling me you're Cambodian? It must be harsh living there after everything that the Khmer Rouge did to your country... :(
Venetian Lion It’s not for me tho since I’m only 18. Our country is pretty developing in the City so I never really have to go through anything tho. But yeah every person you know who is 40 or more are probably experienced that tragic events. My mom never talked abt it like ever and sadly she actually got diagnosed with depression after we moved to the U.S. But yeah can’t say the same for people who live in poverty or lower social class. I know some of friends who are pretty messed up.
Interesting comment you are absolutely right. I read somewhere that they planned to keep only 10000 people alive the purest Khmers with pure Khmer blood. Anyway they were so crazy that they provoked their own collapse by attacking Vietnam. Can you imagine a small country with a small population Cambodia had 7 millions people at that time who were dying and and the small Khmer rouge army without real heavy weapons attacking a country with a real army and a much bigger population like Vietnam? It's just insane. But fortunately for us Khmer people they did it without Vietnam intervention we all would die. But we have to remember that they were totally brainwashed and low educated people. I would also mention that we can notice that some dictatorships provoke their own collapse for example even nazi Germany by attacking USSR and opening a second front because of some madness they were disconnected from the reality
Honestly i love these series. They tell an unbiased story by a guy who's ACTUALLY IN the country and not just some dude sitting at a desk in the states. The voice is nice to hear and the pace is set to where it gives you time to take it in but not bore you. THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF THAT SHOULD BE ON TV!
You mean like Murdoch press. They made a reference to that in the movie The Killing Fields, when Schonberg did his reporting from the Phnom Penh not from some desk in Bangkok
Man, sometimes I feel like the world is a struggle between all the nice people tryng to live their lives and all the crazy idealists trying to save the world.
Albert Dillion the Americans thought bombing the shit out of Cambodia would scare the Communist Cambodians into submission so you could technically say it was a sort of idealistic belief:
@@Hyxhxie Huh... Thinking a bit about it and well.. That is incredibly accurate, in fact, one can say that modern professional soldiers, are the most idealistic people on the planet, I mean, most of the professional soldiers, especially junior officers, seem to have an idea that they prevent more harm then they cause. An interesting idealism.
Wow. This was intense and again, this is well-done. I got used to more of you talking to the camera in the first season but digging this too especially the angles and grading. I realized while watching this that I know way more about Vietnam than I have ever known about Cambodia probably due to the historical narrative pushed in school curriculum. It's incredible that there was never any closure...
You are not alone. Chinese educated Chinese, are completely unaware that the primary reason why Pol Pot received American support was because of China and Mao (You must remember the famous handshake right?) Also the numbers don't tell the full story go with fractions, the Khmer Rouge killed 1/4 of Cambodia.
And you know what? Behind Khmer Rough was China's support. Throughout the 1980s, they had consistently demanded Vietnam not only to retreat its army, but also to constitute a new Campuchia Government includes Khmer Rough. China had always declared that there was no genocide at all, and Vietnam just told a fake story, using it as a cause to invade Campuchia to reunite Indochina. In my opinion, Vietnam interfered Campuchia not only because its needs of peace and security but also for humanity reasons. Now we see. Khmer Rough is a devil which killed so many people in vast brutal ways. And we can also see, China is a liar, a big big liar in Asia. It is (not was) because it continue to lie about their nine-dots sovereign in South China Sea. Actually, they has illegally occupied those islands by forces. They took some from South Vietnam (1974) and took some from Vietnam (1988). They shot and killed 64 Vietnamese soldiers. South East Asia, be careful and thoughtful with China.
Vietnam gov do nothing wrong, the gov have to protect it people. Example in the past Japan boom Us troops in Hawai, the Us boom two city of Japan with nuclear boom and no one complaint about it. My Vietnam do the similar
Not only South East Asia, Russian, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Hong Kong and Republic of China (Taiwan), Indian,...needs to be aware of China. China has changed it's history to trick people of all the worlds to believe and be it's allies, China also always try to fix the border between it and it's neighbour country. The Nine-dash line also the most obvious proof that China is trying to invade Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia,...
"Tell the Cambodians we will be friends with them. They are murderous bastards but we won't let that stand in our way" _ message given by Henry Kissinger on behalf of the US government to the Thai foreign misister to give to the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime, while they were jenociding people. After the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge the US sanctioned Vietnam, urged the Chinese to support the Khmer Rouge rebels and the US itself funded and armed the Khmer Rouge rebels and for more than a decade voted yearly at the UN for the ousted Khmer Rouge to retain Cambodia's seat at the UN.
It’s so sad how my school just brushed over the Cambodian Genocide. It wasn’t part of the curriculum but my teacher decided to do a one day lesson on it and my whole class was so intrigued, but since it wasn’t part of the curriculum we all ended up doing our own research on it
governments ultimately want to implement their own version of the khmer rouge, so the curriculum is meant to ignore such. God bless your teacher for making time for such, because it's a truth that indeed needs to be told. and God bless you all for researching further.
Thảo nào giới trẻ campuchia lúc nào cũng bảo Việt Nam xâm lược, nếu chúng tôi muốn chiếm đất thì để 1-2 năm sau polpot sẽ diệt chủng hết người campuchia rồi xang chiếm sau,
I've been in the S-21 prison. I really wish that I could have spent more time there. It was fascinating but I could feel that it was haunted. Only 7 people made it out alive. Most people only spent a few hours before being killed. In some of the classrooms, there are thousands upon thousands of mugshots of all the people who were brought in. It's horrifying really, but it needs to be talked about. I got the chance to speak with a woman there who told me that her whole family was killed in the genocide because she went to school. Her neighbours told her that the Khmer Rouge waited for her for an hour but she hadn't come back so they killed her entire family and left their corpses in their home. She spoke as if she was completely disconnected from what had happened. I think that talking about the genocide and discussing how it affected modern Cambodia is necessary to help them heal. Great video!
I've had a similar experience when I visited the concentration camp in Dachau Germany. A sinister sense of dread sent shivers down my spine. Unbelievable to what ideological fanatism can lead to. I'm still horrified by that experience but it's a valuable one. Those are stories that have to be told, to warn us not to make the same mistakes. Everyone should once visit a place like that as a reminder to value what they take for granted.
We helped Cambodia build their goverment and together fight against pol pot, pol pot still kill Cambodian until 1989, then new government of Cambodia strong enough to keep peace, so Vietnam withdrawn and then in the 21 century, young Cambodian people learned history from tiktok of china and then spread hate that Vietnam want to ocuppy Cambodia, so sad, i leared we are friends in the school and now it is not like that, Cambodia is so strange. So sad for thoundsand of Vietnam people died in that time, young people do not live in that time can not understand what happened with their country by pol pot and nuon chia, they are not Cambodian, they are chinese and want to do Mao and deng policy that time.
Thank for the coverage on Khmer's past, this is good to have in historical archives and such. Let it be known since we're almost forgotten, again thank you.
They forgot a few things. Khmer Rouge were anacho-communo-primitivists. Initially during the Vietnam war they came and asked for help from USSR , which saw where this was going and responded NOPE !. They went an allied themselves with China eventually. Due to growing rift between USSR and PRC , Vietnam was on the side of USSR , PRC and Khmer rouge decide to invade Vietnam at the same time this results in so called border skirmishes a massive but short term war. Khmer Rouge were fighting Vietnam with help from PRC and US and UK. Pol Pot was educated in France.
Vector Freeze5 He forgot to inform us that U.S funded Khmer. R thru Thailand including Youn who help depopulate indigenous people Mon Khmer (no land claimer) smh.
Ivan Monahhov Pol Pot knew Youn took in thousands of orphanage to (during U.S bombing 1969-1970) become foot solider for Youn so those Khmer opharage kids can infiltrate in Khmer .R camp and start murdering Khmer civilian smh. Funny how President Nixon and Henery Kissenger started this illegal war in Srok Khmer and still known as a Hero smh. What a joke...
No one: Absolutely no one: Not even a single soul on Earth: Khmer Rouge: *invades the country that just defeated the most powerful superpower and gave them room to rise to power, whose wartime army is still largely standing*
He think he stronger than French, American and Chinesse to win Vietnam. Stupid Pol Pot. He began the new war since 1975 with VN. Vn attack him in 1977 is too late for me. Maybe VN dont want war and scare of UN. But people see. The UN was lead by China, US. Fuck. 5 leaders of UN Rusia, the US, China, France, England 4 of them invaded Vietnam Fucking them. So Pol Pot killed Cambodian, Vietnamesse, Champa...in 4 years . The UN still support him to be member, protect him, cover him. Fucking UN
The original format was more enjoyable. It felt really intimate, like a story you were telling a friend. Its better when you showed us things personally, instead of using stock photos. I love the history and the culture, but what is best is the philosophizing at the end. Keep up the good work!
Kyle Tarrao I agree. Within a few videos I went back to that manner of talking. It is just my natural style. Why fight it? That said, we've still kept a number of changes we like for the rest of the season. They are easier to employ in countries where prison is the end result of filming.
Still, the content and its narration are outstanding. I know i'm late, but i wanted to thank you. I have, as everyone, studied about the conflict in school, but i was never aware of its real implications and the injuries it has inflicted
During my 2 years of exploring the routes and battlefields of Vietnam War, I spent 1 month of that time in Cambodia alone. It shows how sometimes the domino effect that the US feared in Asia is sometimes partially caused by them instead of Cambodia doing it independently.
Hokata great observation! My father was KIA in VN in ‘71. The US government is a criminal organization at this point. I can only hope the good people in our country can remove the cancer of our entire government structure. And soon.
When Vietnam had to help the people of cambodia against The Khmer Rouge, what the United Nation had done?, they embargo Vietnam, China and The US supported for The Khmer Rouge because political reasons, fuck at all
I am wondering that how Lee Hsien Loong feel when he watch this clip, he maybe not believe in what happened in Cambodia. He is still proud of what his father did, that is supporting Pol Pot and lasting the war longer than it should have been.
Lee hsien long is singapore dictator he is pol pot best friend ..he support pol pot to fight viet nam....and vietnam told this singapore dictator shut up or they will zip his mouth....
i think it's quite interesting how remnants of the khmer rouge become a fact of everyday life here in cambodia; the s-21 prison, known colloquially as Toul Sleng, is referred to casually, as though it's nothing but another street marker - eg. "turn left at toul sleng to get to toultompong market". the minefields are just places we avoid, without much thought put to it. adults in their fifties and older will talk about the atrocities of the khmer rouge casually - eg "oh, you were sent to the broken plate commune? i was kept in phnom penh. we had enough food, but my brother in king's tiger commune starved to death." my mother is familiar with all sorts of plants and animals because she needed to be. she'll point out berries that are bitter and horrible-tasting but she had eaten anyways because she needed to stay alive. she says that they weren't allowed to touch the mangoes in the trees of the pagoda she and other young girls had stayed in, not even when they'd fallen to the ground on their own, because the soldiers would shoot them on the spot. she says that when they worked in the fields, she found insects and stored them in her clothes to eat later, when she was in private and wouldn't be accused of stealing food from the regime. and she says all of this casually, like she's reminiscing about a bad storm that'd blown over. its truly humbling how survivors of the regime just picked themselves back up and started working with all the suffering around them accepted as a part of life.
When humans are tortured they can't help but talk about it to help ease some of the pain, when in pain it is best to talk about it, that helps you improve.
My parents never talked abt it like ever. My dad born in a countryside so I guess he didn’t really experience anything horrible. I know Pol pot targeted rich and powerful people in the city. He just casually mention young soldiers and told me how at this age I could have carried a gun and not knowing how to open stuff. My mom on the other hand never talked abt it. Actually my mom side of the family only told us to watched all the movies and read all the books related to it. My aunt in the U.S asked me if my mom ever mentioned what she gone through and I said no. She told me to someday sit down with her and asked her what happened. When we were in Cambodia, my mom suffered from depression and she also very very very over protective of me and my brother. I know cause none of my friends parents were as protective as her. I was not allow to hang out with my friends and I was 17 at the times !! She actually was diagnosed with depression when we moved to the U.S tho. Actually her mental health improves a lot since we moved here. She start working again and so she stop worrying abt us which is great for both me and my brother. She still take her medication but she literally a different person now and we all happy for her
I take my hat off to your mum. To all mums and dads and all the people who had suffered the unimaginable and yet managed to shake it off a bit and form today's Cambodia - a place and the people I grew VERY fond of, and that's only after I spent literally 3 days there.
+Melissa Jansen this isnt in most schools in the US considering this isnt not as known to some, but thats why i talk about it and share my story in the genocide to much people as i can and sharing it around the internet so people are aware that isnt. and in this video just saying is just the tip of the ice berg, this isnt even all of the things that happened but is good enough to let you know of the war.
I learned this in public schools. But we only spent a day on it. There is only so much you can cram into a class. The problem with the 20th century is that we don't have enough distance from it to really see what is important. We spend more time talking about the Beatles invading America, than the Soviets invading Hungary. I remember getting in an argument with my history teacher because we spent twice as much time talking about how American women benefited from WWll than actually talking about the fighting in WWll. We will probably have to wait for all the baby boomers to die before we can get an objective view of the late 20th century.
I learned basic information on all major genocides and massacres in grade school. My mother is Cherokee, so she was sure us kids received a very non-scrubbed view of history.
I entered the comments section, nervous. It's TH-cam after all; the more grisly, more horrifying, or the more divisive the topic, the worse the arguments get. I expect calls of "This is what always happens under Communism" or "This isn't real Communism". Instead, I see people enjoying the video, learning about the past, and reflecting on the future. That's a very pleasing change compared to elsewhere.
@Eric B Let's ignore 60 million with Mao and the gulags of Stalin, okay? Yes, let's spare this ideology from criticism but criticise Nazism only and everything attributed to it. Let's just not equate hammer and sickle with swastika.
@@eraliaa3219 No, Pol Pot was not at all a communist. First of all, he was backed by the cia to kill actual communists in Vietnam and Laos. Second of all, he officially renounced communism in the 80s. Third of all, None of his policies actually reflected communist policies. His policies were much closer to that of a brutal form of primitivism. Just because he adopted communist imagery and rhetoric does not at all make him a communist. This is pretty obvious.
Thank you for this amazing and eye-opening documentary. It is really sad to see what happened to a great nation under the oppressive regime of the Khmer Rouge. Yet still the spirit of the nation will help it rise again and build a brighter future for the generations to come...
Interesting timing. Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father documentary came out a few days ago and today I see Rare Earth talking about The Cambodian Genocide. Literally losing sleep to learn more about this.
Bernadette Duisters it’s hard to find accurate info as little documentation exists. The KR killed all educated people. Very few left to tell the story. I studied the KR back in the 90’s in college and it is one of the most insane idealistic brutal and sickening things anyone has ever done to people - let alone to your own people. The Nazis on the other hand were anal about documenting everything. That is why so much is known about everything they did.
I've been to Cambodia this year and our tour guide told us about his survival story on the way to Siem Reap. He was originally from Pnom Phen and about 6 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. His family of 17 was split up and brought to different labour camps. He said he was in a child labour camp with 100 other children. They had 4kg of rice per day, which gave each kid 4 spoons of rice a day. He considered himself lucky if he was able to kill and eat a snake when no one was watching, but he knew he risked his life when he did. He also told us that one day a guard caught some kids and him climbing a tree, trying to eat the very hard, not yet ripe fruits. He was told to come down and bring a fruit, and he was so happy. But the guard smashed it on his head until it broke, more than 40 times. He blacked out and still has pain there today. Later his older brother (then 16) was caught climbing a palm tree to drink the water in the leafs. He and his two immidiately younger brothers were brought to the main guard at the town centre, and then sent to "school", which meant killed with iron rods. The children had to dig graves and bury them and all the other dead children each morning. He cried when he told us that so many mothers would never know what happened to their beloved daughters and sons. The tour guide said that, when the regime fell, he was malnourished and disorientated and didn't know where anyone from his family was or if they were even still alive. He stumbled along the road for three days, approx. 70 miles and by sheer coincidence spottet his mother. They lost 6 members of their family in 3 years and 8 months, his father, his three oldest brothers (he told us the names and then calculated real quick for us how old they would have been now) and two younger sisters who died of malnourishment. It was hard to look him in the eyes afterwards. I work with very very traumatised people, think of former child prostitutes or girls that were sold in child pron rings. But nothing came close to what I heard our guide told us that day and nothing shook me to the core like his story.
“Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -C.S. Lewis
Wow. Thanks for sharing this, I consider myself an informed and educated person and I have literally never heard of this. This rare earth series has been some of my favorite videos on TH-cam, its very refreshing to see such well researched work that really tries to dive deep into the history, the culture and the feeling of what its like to live in other countries. I cant wait to see more from you!
Holy fuck. I had no idea about this. They dont teach this stuff in school. They barely even teach the Vietnam war any more... Thanks for doing this Evan, Francesco and Mr. Hadfield. And as you say in the credits, im definitely going to be doing more research on this.
I can relate. I knew Pol Pot was some evil Cambodian dictator, but I had no idea how horrific it truly was. It was like the wanted to maximize the amount of misery they could cause in 4 years or so.
At that time. China, American, Singapore, Thailand, they support Kherme Roge. And the small contry, weak contry, poor contry try their best to stop the Kherme Roge. That contry is VietNam :)
English below. Tiếng Việt ở trên. From the nearly-completed genocide of the Cambodian people at the hands of the heinous Pol Pot clique under direction and orchestration by China’s Expansionist Rulers (and urged on and supported by the US Administration to exact revenge on Vietnam), thinking of the barbaric genocide, physical and cultural, now being committed on the Uyghur people by China’s Expansionist Rulers .... =============== This is about the heinous genocide that's being perpetrated on the hapless Uyghur people in Xin-Jiang, China (East Turkestan before that country was invaded, occupied and renamed by China's expansionist Rulers) =============== # Đây nói về nạn Diệt chủng người Campuchia và người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs) ở Tân Cương, TQ, do Bành trướng Trung Quốc chỉ đạo, gây ra. # Năm 1975 - 1978, Bành trướng Trung Quốc điều khiển chỉ đạo bọn Diệt chủng Pôn Pốt .... (và Chính quyền Mỹ xúi giục giúp đở để trả thù Việt Nam) # trong nước thì gây nạn Diệt chủng khủng khiếp lên Nhân dân Campuchia để dọn sạch Campuchia, sẵn sàng đón Cố vấn, rồi tới Lính (khi Pôn Pốt thua Việt Nam, phải kêu gọi Bành trướng Trung Quốc vô giúp), và sau đó là Công nhân, Dân thường Trung Quốc, vô tràn ngập biến Campuchia thành 1 tỉnh TQ nữa như Tân Cương; # ngoài nước thì tiến đánh Việt Nam và gây ra những tội ác man rợ lên Đồng bào VN ta. =============== Beside the barbaric Genocide committed on the Cambodian people during 1975 - 1978 to wipe Cambodia clean of Cambodians and ready Cambodia for Deng_XiaoPing-Mao_ZeDong's Chinese advisers, then troops, then colonizers, to flood in, there is another no-less barbaric Genocide that has been committed on the Uyghur people, and is now continuing; and the Culprits are the same: The boundlessly greedy, ruthless, brutal, expansionist Rulers of China. =============== # Tội nghiệp người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs). Giống như người Tây Tạng, họ bị Giới Cầm Quyền Bành trướng Trung Quốc tiến hành Diệt chủng vừa tinh vi vừa thâm độc tàn khốc. # Họ bị Diệt chủng vừa con người vừa văn hóa. # Cộng đồng Thế giới phải giúp họ trước khi họ bị tiêu diệt hoàn toàn; và phải LÀM GẤP. # Nga ở sát bên là có thể giúp tốt nhất. # Mỹ, Nhật, Đức, Anh, Pháp, Canađa, Turkey, ... và Cộng đồng Quốc tế phải cộng tác với Nga để giúp cứu người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs) thoát nạn Diệt chủng nầy, thay vì chống phá, kèn cựa với Nga. # Xin nhắc lại: Phải LÀM GẤP. =============== Poor Uighurs (Uyghurs). Like the Tibetans, a very cunning and extremely vicious genocide is being committed on them by China's ever greedy, ruthless, brutal and expansionist Rulers. # They are subjected to a genocide, both physically and culturally. # The World Community must help them before they are completely exterminated; and QUICKLY # Next-door Russia can help best. # The US, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada, Turkey, ... and the International Community must cooperate with Russia to help the Uyghurs escape this Genocide, instead of opposing, stirring up trouble and causing difficulty for Russia. # Repeat: World MUST HURRY, before the Uyghurs are gone. =============== The Uyghur people is being subjected to a systematic, ruthless, extremely cunning and vicious genocide by China's ever greedy expansionist rulers. The Uyghurs are about to be exterminated, physically and culturally, unless the World helps them, QUICKLY.
"For a nation so associated with the trauma of the past, it is hard to find people here who don't focus on the promise of the future." Gorgeous. We never really learn about this in schools, it's one of those things you see mentioned in a book or a television show, but you never really LEARN, it's just buried alive and forgotten, but you help us to see and learn. You handle the stories with such care and precision, and despite all this you still have a touch of self-deprication that ties you back to Earth. You get people to THINK, and I think that's what we need most in the world right now, humans who think with their own hearts and brains. Thank you for telling these stories, thank you for being such a wonderful storyteller, and I can't wait to see more glimpses of the rare stories of Earth. I know that these comments often get lost in the windstorm of cyberspace text, but I hope you see this one, and I hope it makes your day a little brighter, and your goal a little clearer. Thank you again, both for the videos and for listening to the words of a schoolgirl. I'll be watching.
I ReALLY enjoy this being a fairly small channel, and I hope it stays that way. Even though it might not be good for the creators (thank you for giving us great content!), it's certainly good for everybody else. We have enough of these channels pulling in three or four million views on videos with 25.000 + comments. It's just not enjoyable being a part of such a large community. In a smaller community, people can get their voices heard and participate on a whole new level, and that's worth SO MUCH MORE than millions of views. You are doing everything right, and I really enjoy the show! Have a good day, viewers and creators :)
My mom and her family witnessed a lot of this. My mom was In a prison camp where she saw people being killed every day. She later escaped to America but it's nice to actually know the cause of all of it. Thanks for the awesome video :D
Just recently found your videos, I especially appreciate that when you add your opinion that it is "your" opinion. Most media these days is seriously lacking in journalistic ethics. The videos by you I have watched would require someone inhuman to not have an opinion. You do an amazing job of telling the facts and keeping the opinions separate. By the way I wrote this comment before watching this video, which is what i'm going to do right now.
I've only been there, first time ever, a month and half ago and am simply in love with the place and its people - so I fully understand and share those sentiments 👍👍❤
This is my favorite one you guys have made so far! I knew about Pol Pot's regime executing intellectuals, but I never understood the why behind it. Keep it up!
You forgot to mention Vietnam, of course, continued to brand itself the liberator of the Camobidian, and stressed continuously that at the time of the genocide, the whole world but Vietnam turned a blind eye to what happened. However, nowadays the Cambodian government is ran by whatever left of that Pol Pot, and the country is being educated that Vietnam was an invader just like the rest. They did not even mention their offensive. So even right now there s a propaganda war, where Vietnam keeps digging up survivors to tell that Vietnam was a liberator, and Cambodia keeps digging up China and UN's proofs that Vietnam was an invader.
it’s like ‘sigh’ but with a more curvier accent to it, like khmigh. does this makes sense? i cant think of an english word that perfectly fits the pronunciation
@@thefirstofitskind895 Wikipedia lists the pronunciation as [kʰmae] and I don't think the [ae] sound occurs English, though it's pretty close to the "i" sound. I'd be willing to bet the "er" spelling comes from the Brits: In British English, "r" isn't pronounced at the end of words and instead modifies the Vowel before it, so British colonialists would hear strange vowels sounds and use "r" to represent this. I know this is how "Burma" ended with an r in the name despite there not being an r sound in there.
English below - Tiếng Việt bên dưới. =============== - (Thanks to nathan kramer for the Khmer translation) សូមជូនពរអោយអ្នកទាំងអស់គ្នាបានឃើញនូវឈុតបង្ហូរឈាមនិងភាពវឹកវរជាថ្មីម្តងទៀតនៅគ្រប់ទីកន្លែងក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជាមុនឆ្នាំ ១៩៧៥ ដោយសារការទម្លាក់គ្រាប់បែករបស់អាមេរិកនិងការផ្តួលរំលំសម្តេចព្រះនរោត្តមសីហនុ (“ ការសំដែងខាងចំហៀង” របស់អាមេរិក) ។ បន្ទាប់មកមើលម្តងទៀតនូវឆ្នាំរបស់ប៉ុលពតជាមួយនឹងទីក្រុងដែលនៅឆ្ងាយ, ការដើរក្បួនដោយបង្ខំ, វាលពិឃាត, រូបថតរបស់គុកទួលស្លែងនៃកុមារ, ស្ត្រីនិងបុរសដោយមានភ្នែកដ៏គួរឱ្យខ្លាចរង់ចាំរងទារុណកម្មនិងសម្លាប់ចោល។ # បន្ទាប់មកមើលឈុតឆាកនៃប្រទេសកម្ពុជានាពេលបច្ចុប្បន្នដែលកំពុងផ្ទុះឡើងជាមួយនឹងជីវិត។ # បន្ទាប់មកផ្អាកបន្តិចហើយនិយាយដោយស្មោះត្រង់សួរដោយមិនលំអៀង៖ "អរគុណដល់អ្នកណាសម្រាប់ការរស់ឡើងវិញនេះ?" =============== 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?" =============== 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?"
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 executed. # 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?"
It's mentioned but partially elided that the western powers who supported the Khmer Rouge after they were ousted, in the 80's and 90's, was primarily the USA. It wasn't just as a counter to Russian-supported Viet Nam but as part of their de facto alliance with China, the Khmer Rouge's traditional backers.
You're right there has been almost nobody held responsible for the horrors and most former Khmer Rouge remain living peacefully and more often than not with privileges still. I've spent a lot of time in Cambodia a few years ago and know the place and people well. A Khmer hotel owner and well connected older woman there whom I know was a school teacher who somehow survived. Her obvious wealth and connections today make clear why that it. The UN history in Cambodia is atrocious too. They are known for having debauched so many of the young girls there's even a standing display depicting this at a village museum in Siem Reap.
I've been to the killing fields. The tree was the most sobering for me. They'd hang infant children upside down by their feet and bash their heads against the tree. There is still fragmented bone and clothing stuck to the bark to this day.
Thank you for your video! I was born in Cambodia around Nov. 1974 and I was found in a bombed village. I was one of 2 survivors from the village, me and another baby. We were brought to the Canada House and were to be adopted. I also escaped being put on a plane that crashed called Operation Babylift. I was lucky that last min a Canadian Airforce plane offered to take anyone going to Canada on his plane the next day. And me and the 65 Cambodian babies and our Canadian nurses escaped being killed on that plane crash. I grew up in Canada... arrived in Montreal April 6th 1975 and was all over the newspapers with my parents... I'm writing a book right now. And I am doing research on Cambodia! Thanks for the video! xo Leah
Thanks for sharing your story. Look forward to reading your book - Love from Đồng Tháp, Vietnam (Good that it's very peaceful everywhere now, in Vietnam, in Cambodia; it's now all about "enjoy life and make happy")
our family (8 of us) left phmon penh with a little food half way. no food left so we have to catch rats in the rice fields of the farmer to grill n eat, n I didn't know this was the beginning. of the killing field . we walked from PP all the way to Kampong Trach n walked back to Kampong Speu stuck there for 7 month that's starving beging we ate only ripe palms fruit to survive n final destination Dontree village they transport us there by (ANGKA) n that 's where. khmer Rouge soldiers took my dad away n beheaded n I lost 2 older. brother rn 1 little sister 😭😭😭😭 of starving skin n bone only I almost not make it.Dontree village I saw it a'll with my own eyes. they. Killed innocence people day n night I was soo scary n I did not know when is my turn.1978 war break out I survive ! I survive! but trauma n nightmares is still with me every day at work or at home. n. be still with me until my last breath.😭 life is unfair
That is the reason why we, the Vietnamese, fought to the bitter end against the Khmer Rouge. We fought to protect our people, to save our neighbor, to fight for what is right. No thanks, no recognition, and we were condemned for that
No matter how you do the videos or where you lace the camera, I really don't want this series to end (I almost watched 3/4 of them) Just keep rare earth goin you have no idea how much this is good and how much I find it interesting.
I am a child of Cambodia. The suffering of our people was real. I am only five years old at the time, i remembered every vividly. I think it is a learning experience and the future leader of Cambodia will rise from the killing fields and lead to a more compassionate and loving people and country. Thank you a beautiful documentary that base on so much facts about our suffering. I hope the world learn from our history and protect the human right all over the world. I hope one day i am worthy enough to serve my people.
It takes a lot to make my eyes tear up, even after talking to a gentleman I know who survivor Auschwitz, but this video made me cry, I remember watching this unfold in the 6 o'clock news, but never getting the full story. Thank you for this video because no matter how raw and in your face it may be the victims of Pol Pot need to be remembered.
I am from the us and the only reason I know about this is because in a video about life expectancy I saw Cambodia's drop to 19 in 1977 so I looked this up and found this. It's really sad they dont teach this to anyone in schools in the US.
Because, at that time, the US actually were supporting the Khmer Rogue and condemned Vietnam for defeating the genocidal regime, so of course they will hide all of this information. While school is for learning, it is also for brainwashing and propaganda.
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.
Great video Evan. I am fascinated by east Asia but realize I know very little about Cambodia. Your video (as your credits suggest) is prompting me to do more research and educate myself - thanks.
+Thelonious M sadly I don’t see much on the genocide online but hopefully you’ll do good! If you have any questions on it just ask me since my family was part and suffered through it so I know most lmao
Amazing stuff! I caught myself binging all of your Japan videos late into the night, haha. My new favorite channel on TH-cam! Would love if you covered the Philippines someday.
I think the most interesting part about genocide is how readily (mostly) young men/soldiers everywhere are willing to inflict pain, suffering and death to people they don't know under the excuse of doing what's right. It happens everywhere and in any time in the history of humanity, groups of young men of fighting age bring horribly violent. It's the awful nature of our species. We're cursed 😐
@@garyjohnstone6422 gary, LOL your comment is so ironic. You're so ignorant, you don't seem to realize violent crime far predates any notion of communism. 🤔
# 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 executed. # 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?"
I dont know whats taken me so long, but my parents are from both Cambodia and Vietnam and survived what happened there. We live peacefully in Canada but I am just starting to learn about the history and what has happened to them, they must have seen some crazy shit , I never appreciated this or took it seriously. This was wrong way of thinking. They never talk about it, but I know atleast 1 of my parents have trauma from this but i dont know why i never thought about it or connected it. I can only be a better son from now on. Also I feel more pride and proudness of my parents from the bottom of my heart now knowing this is the adversity they dealt with to get me to be a succcesful individual in the western world today. i just shed tears i have never shed in my whole entire life. Thanks for this amazing video and I am happy I started this journey to understand my own families history
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Thank you for this. Ever been to South-Africa?
China and U.S at the back of Polpot In the Cambodia genocide. China government and U.S government must answer for their crime.
2:01 Listen to that carefully.
@@Ida-xe8pg Khmer Rouge they make a invasion Vietnam country first.. They keep killing thousands innocent vietnamese people at border line in 3 years long, Viet Nam government get scare too..
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i'm full cambodian, first gen american. thanks for doing this. most of the time when i mention my parent's history and the khmer rouge no one seems to know what it is. my dad's walked cross country for months at a time, making three round trips barefoot through jungle and minefields to lead his family out of the country. the craziest thing i hear is that the way he was able to tell where to step was by taking into account the corpses on the ground and the blast radius- the closer to an exploded mine the safer you were, since mines had to be placed some amount apart. imagining my dad at 16 sleeping with corpses is sobering as hell.
Indeed a incredible story, damn
My mom experienced almost the exact same thing
Your dad was lucky, some of my relatives died during this time from starvation and being a teacher
KOELACANTH my dad too, he went to the philipines
Your comment is right. The country is now living peacefully and joyfully, thanks to who ? To Vietnam, isn't it ?
As a Chinese, I am ashamed and saddened by the Chinese government's support for the cruel Khmer Rouge in the past. I want to express my deepest apologies to the Cambodian people and ask for your forgiveness.
搞笑，说的好像美国不支持红色高棉一样
> saddened by the Chinese government's support for the cruel Khmer Rouge
Along with literally everything else that they did
@@alexanderkorol677 then I would say you are brainwashed by your government's propagandas, a Nation's interest is above everything, putting emotions on politics is just no more than an act of childish
@@LanceCorpsman an act of childish what? Prove to me that they aren't one of the biggest polluters or the worst oppressors!
@@alexanderkorol677 So what? it brings people out of poverty and provide a stable society, I don't want my kid to live in a place like Iraq, people in Iraq don't have pollution or so-call governmental oppression,but do you want to go there? Hell no
In the US media the Vietnamese were villianized as a result of the Vietnam war. Yet the Vietnamese wiped the Khmer Rogue out of government. If not for Vietnam they'd still be in charge. If not for the US losing the Vietnam war, and the larger reunified Vietnam invading Cambodia in response to the Khmer invading them, then the Khmer regime would have held on longer. Some Cambodian child or adult survived because of Vietnamese actions. Maybe someone here right now. Maybe even a fellow American today. Irony to an American brought up in total American cultural programming. Worse yet, knowledge that the CIA may have initially assisted the Khmer Rogue. The ideology never was Capitalism vs Communism, but a chessboard. The Khmer were a death cult. The US, French, Soviets, and Chinese influencers in the region. But the Vietnamese had just fought, a Civil War, against the US military, and a war of independence of sorts. Later they'd fight off a Chinese invasion. Communists invading Communists? Capitalists backing Death Cults that originally claimed to be Communists who were defeated by Communists? Again it was never about Communism vs Capitalism. Makes you rethink who your villains once were. Makes you think about the hidden heroes you never saw in the former villains you were told to villianize. Maybe the Vietnamese aren't the monsters our propaganda in the Vietnam era, told us they were, maybe they weren't bad people, or villains, maybe they were someone's heroes, someone who survived longer because that despicable Khmer regime was ousted. Maybe Rambo movies don't hold the same feelings they once held, and the old Vietnam movies feel less we did our best, and more why the hell were we there? It's wasn't our war, and we were wrong. The spread of Communism you say? Then why were Communists (PR China) invading Communists (Vietnam) because they responded to an attack by self proclaimed Communists in reality a death cult (Khmer). Reality is gray. Politics are muddy. Ideologies mean little to players, opportunists, and cults.
Yuri Bezmenov warned us about people like LBJ and the Khmer Rouge.
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@@vicinte Still they are better than both US and China, one just retreat back home being sore loser condemning VN's action although they themselves doing nothing to help Cambodia. The other keep on supporting Khmer Rouge even when their Chinese civilians in Cambodia were being massacres.
@@vicinte They helped Khmer Rouge because they were promise alliance while the Cambodia government at the time is likely to shake hand with the South VN, and the path North VN use to support communism party in the south run along Cambodia. They must take on that chance in order to continue supporting the South resistance, they didn't think Khmer Rouge would causing such atrocities to their own people, they merely helping a fellow communism "fight for the people" or so Khmer Rouge claims. Needles to say once the atrocities that Khmer Rouge have done unfold, VN quickly sever ties with them and actually done something about it, invade Cambodia the second time and even left Cambodia with the newly raise government, wonder if American would be so nice after doing such thing.
And please don't say stuff like "we only lost because people back home protest" You are already on the losing side before the election happened, after suffer the endless skirmishers, US soldier losing the will to fight, some even show insubordination to their officers. US stopped sending troops in, instead using South VN soldiers to fight for them. The communism in the South already rally enough people to start an insurgency. Bombing run and chemical warfare as an attempt to break North VN morale was futile, It was matter of time before the South fall, and American just waiting a sign to pull out.
This is something cambodians will never admit. They are ungrateful and have an irrational hatred towarda vietnam. If.vietnam didnt go to cambodia these cambos wouldn't even be here alive but 6 feet deep underground.
I am 🇰🇭 Cambodian and this video means so much to me ,thanks to all the people who save lives of the next generation,I feel terrible to everyone who passed away at the time ,but also thanks 🙏 them who survived!😭😢
I'm from Cambodia
And i'm just glad that Pol Pot era was over.
Ikr, if he still goes on, I'd rather move to Siem Reap, or Japan.
@@meimei1748 if you can move, that's it..
Electric Boba Japan ?? Your life must be cheap there
WE DON'T REALLY KNOW IF THOSE KHMER ROUGE ARE GONE. OR NOT. WE NEEDS TO TEACH THIS HORRIFIED HISTORY TO THE CAMBODIAN STUDENTS. WE MUST MAKE SURE THIS HORRIFIED HISTORY WILL NEVER TO BE REPEATED,.
Tôi đến từ Việt Nam và tôi rất buồn vì dân campuchia nói chúng tôi cướp đất, nếu cướp thì chúng tôi chỉ cần đóng biên giới Polpot sẽ tàn sát dân campuchia hết, rồi cướp sau,
Could've watched months more about japan, but Cambodia is basically non-covered. There is so much to find about japan, but not Cambodia, so I'm glad for this change!
Zulamun my thoughts exactly. I'd love if other less covered nations could be covered aswell.
It;s great that people are learning more about Cambodia and what happens especially when our neighbors are cared more about
The 80s was hard for Vietnam. The country had just finished the fight with the world most powerful army. We didn't even have a chance to begin rebuilding the country. For more than 10 years, we had to fight agaisnt Khmer Rouge guerrilla in Cambodia and fight skirmishes at the border with China meanwhile being sanctioned by both US and China.
@@yuththegod5697 Then we win again and will rise agian. Ok?
Injected I am so sorry that I was being rude, I won’t do that again, I promised.
Dino Cism
However the Khmer people always had a grudge against Vietnam since they invaded Cambodia multiple times and mostly literally took its south territory
@@wat1614 Get your fact straight. Vietnam and Cambodia for a thousand year don't share any border, that was under Suryavarman II, from 1128-1138, Khmer Empire at that time expanded to the North took over the land of Laos today, invade Vietnam 3 times, sometime with the help of ancient China, and Champa, and got their ass kick each time, when Champa no longer help them fight Vietnam, they invaded Champa too. In 18th century Vietnam expanded to the South and take both Champa and part of Khmer Empire. Not only it's Cambodia invaded Vietnam first, it all happened hundreds of years ago. So where's that grudge comes from? It's all Deng Xiaoping and Pol Pot's propaganda to force Cambodian against Vietnam in the past. Now, Xi Jinping and Hunsen use it to control their people, so Hunsen can stay in power with the backing of Beijing, and China have a new province.
@@nghiemduonghung9750 young people in Cambodia so bad, they learned history from tiktok.
My mom and dad survived this
@010101Gaming actually my middle school teacher survived it. He came to America as a refuge while he was young and for the two years I had him, he was pretty sane but I'm sure he still has some type of trauma
Yeah my grandpa and grandma survied this as well
010101Gaming and they're sane...
010101Gaming Everyone I know who are 40 and up are all sane......and yeah I’m Cambodian.
Same here
There were 4 families in a suburb call “the World”: America - the richest and most powerful, China -the second richest and powerful, Vietnam - a poor but brave family living in a house just in front of China’s, Cambodia - a poor family who live in the right of Vietnam’s house.
Not long ago, America intruded into Vietnam’s garden and beat his wife and son badly for some unclear reasons, Vietnam stood up and chased America out of his garden, although he got several injures.
During that time, Cambodia told China about his will to erase his current family to free himself for a new marriage and got China support. China gave him money to buy gun and promise to keep quiet.
While Vietnam was putting bandage on his wife’s and his own wounds from the fight with America, Cambodia quietly came over to Vietnam’s garden and stabbed Vietnam’s son who was playing there. Hearing his son’s scream desperately, Vietnam rushed out to see his son in a blood pond. He could only have enough time calling his wife to take care of the poor boy and ran followed Cambodia.
Cambodia ran back home and locked his wife and daughter in a room, shoot one of his son in his head, beat the other son till dead, and kept hitting his wife and toddle who were tied to a chair. Vietnam was in front of Cambodia’s house knocking on the door to ask Cambodia out to talk; in reply he could only hear Cambodia’s wife and little toddle scream in dismay.
The whole neighbourhood heard the scream. China turned his music loud pretending he could not hear anything. People from other nearby houses peered their heads out of their windows asking what’s happening? America knew Cambodia’s wife and children were in danger but because all of his hatred to Vietnam he just hoped Cambodia would kill Vietnam too. So America shouted to everybody to get back to their houses, nothing wrong.
At this state, Vietnam decided to break into Cambodia’s window, ran through the kitchen, up to the bedroom where Cambodia’s stabbing nonstop his wife. He broke in the room, fought Cambodia to the floor, got shot in his leg but managed to tie Cambodia’s hands.
China saw it all, he ran out in front of Cambodia’s house and shouted to all neighbours, “Vietnam intruded Cambodia, I’ll teach him a lesson”. And there he ran to Vietnam’s house with his son holding the sharpest knives that they have; they broke the door and immediately stabbed Vietnam’s injured wife and son. Vietnam’s wife bravely fought back, got many wound but managed to badly injure China. Vietnam’s wife let China and his son to withdraw and she hurried back to her son who was bleeding on the floor. On the way out, China and his son destroyed the whole Vietnam’s kitchen.
In front of Cambodia’s house, all neighbours were drawn by America and China and were shouting at Vietnam who was inside, condemned his action as an intruder and asking him out to give his hand up. Nobody care to Vietnam’s wife and son who were begging for help just nearby. Vietnam untied Cambodia’s wife and toddle, gave them a knife to protect themselves, and then decided to go back home to take his wife and son to hospital. When Vietnam’s gone, all neighbours got in and called police to catch the already tied Cambodia. On the way Vietnam drove his car to hospital, people yelled at him for his intrusion into Cambodia’s house.
Sometime later, Cambodia’s wife and toddle recovered, and now lived in the house with no man. China is tempted by Cambodia’s wife, they have kept flirting recently. To bribe Cambodia’s daughter, China have bought a lot of sweet for her. This naïve little girl enjoys the sweet so much that now she likes China more than anyone else. And as her memory about what happened faded away, she even starts learning Vietnam hatred from China.
At Cambodia’s tribunal, he was the only one who faced the verdict, the one who gave him support was not named. America and other neighbours got medals for their courage acts. Vietnam’s name was never mentioned. However, in some of their accusation, Cambodia’s wife and daughter blame Vietnam for intruding into their house and ask for his compensation for their broken windows and doors. When being asked about “gratitude”, they answer “We could have been able to free ourselves without Vietnam’s intervention”There were 4 families in a suburb call “the World”: America - the richest and most powerful, China -the second richest and powerful, Vietnam - a poor but brave family living in a house just in front of China’s, Cambodia - a poor family who live in the right of Vietnam’s house.
Not long ago, America intruded into Vietnam’s garden and beat his wife and son badly for some unclear reasons, Vietnam stood up and chased America out of his garden, although he got several injures.
During that time, Cambodia told China about his will to erase his current family to free himself for a new marriage and got China support. China gave him money to buy gun and promise to keep quiet.
While Vietnam was putting bandage on his wife’s and his own wounds from the fight with America, Cambodia quietly came over to Vietnam’s garden and stabbed Vietnam’s son who was playing there. Hearing his son’s scream desperately, Vietnam rushed out to see his son in a blood pond. He could only have enough time calling his wife to take care of the poor boy and ran followed Cambodia.
Cambodia ran back home and locked his wife and daughter in a room, shoot one of his son in his head, beat the other son till dead, and kept hitting his wife and toddle who were tied to a chair. Vietnam was in front of Cambodia’s house knocking on the door to ask Cambodia out to talk; in reply he could only hear Cambodia’s wife and little toddle scream in dismay.
The whole neighbourhood heard the scream. China turned his music loud pretending he could not hear anything. People from other nearby houses peered their heads out of their windows asking what’s happening? America knew Cambodia’s wife and children were in danger but because all of his hatred to Vietnam he just hoped Cambodia would kill Vietnam too. So America shouted to everybody to get back to their houses, nothing wrong.
At this state, Vietnam decided to break into Cambodia’s window, ran through the kitchen, up to the bedroom where Cambodia’s stabling nonstop his wife. He broke in the room, fought Cambodia to the floor, got shot in his leg but managed to tie Cambodia’s hands.
China saw it all, he ran out in front of Cambodia’s house and shouted to all neighbours, “Vietnam intruded Cambodia, I’ll teach him a lesson”. And there he ran to Vietnam’s house, broke the door and immediately stabbed Vietnam’s injured wife and son. Vietnam’s wife bravely fought back, got many wound but managed to badly injure China. Vietnam’s wife let China to withdraw and she hurried back to her son who was bleeding on the floor. On the way out, China destroyed the whole Vietnam’s kitchen.
In front of Cambodia’s house, all neighbours were drawn by America and China and were shouting at Vietnam who was inside, condemned his action as an intruder and asking him out to give his hand up. Nobody care to Vietnam’s wife and son who were begging for help just nearby. Vietnam untied Cambodia’s wife and toddle, gave them a knife to protect themselves, and then decided to go back home to take his wife and son to hospital. When Vietnam’s gone, all neighbours got in and called police to catch the already tied Cambodia. On the way Vietnam drove his car to hospital, people yelled at him for his intrusion into Cambodia’s house.
Bro you wrote all of these by yourself, or it's just a copypasta? If not, then I am impressed.
this is a masterpiece!!
lol dude :))
@@JulySniper it's not the point. just read what his comment says.
Yesss! The world owns Vietnam an apology
The Khmer Rouge was the craziest regime in the 20th Century, and possibly the craziest in history. What kind of regime kills so many of its own people that the country starts to collapse, and therefore the regime itself? And the country would have totally collapsed even without the Vietnamese invasion, just many more people would have died first.
If they kept to kill their own people, Cambodia would've been without any human being by now. A state without its own people has no sense. So the regime of the Khmer Rouge had no sense itself.
Venetian Lion One thing you need to know tho. The soldiers were all brain washed teenagers. It also worst because they are killing teachers, doctors, governors, singers......basically anyone who have some sort of educational background. They think it’s unfair that educated people (people who live in the city) are all live in the luxurious. They want to make a country with no social class so they evacuated people in the City to countryside to experience “what people in the countryside gone through”
People have to hide their profession if they don’t want to get killed.
It was very hard for our country after the regime because 90 percent of educated people were all gone.
@@neathsuon3895 So wait you're telling me you're Cambodian? It must be harsh living there after everything that the Khmer Rouge did to your country... :(
Venetian Lion It’s not for me tho since I’m only 18. Our country is pretty developing in the City so I never really have to go through anything tho. But yeah every person you know who is 40 or more are probably experienced that tragic events. My mom never talked abt it like ever and sadly she actually got diagnosed with depression after we moved to the U.S.
But yeah can’t say the same for people who live in poverty or lower social class. I know some of friends who are pretty messed up.
Interesting comment you are absolutely right. I read somewhere that they planned to keep only 10000 people alive the purest Khmers with pure Khmer blood. Anyway they were so crazy that they provoked their own collapse by attacking Vietnam. Can you imagine a small country with a small population Cambodia had 7 millions people at that time who were dying and and the small Khmer rouge army without real heavy weapons attacking a country with a real army and a much bigger population like Vietnam? It's just insane. But fortunately for us Khmer people they did it without Vietnam intervention we all would die. But we have to remember that they were totally brainwashed and low educated people. I would also mention that we can notice that some dictatorships provoke their own collapse for example even nazi Germany by attacking USSR and opening a second front because of some madness they were disconnected from the reality
Honestly i love these series. They tell an unbiased story by a guy who's ACTUALLY IN the country and not just some dude sitting at a desk in the states. The voice is nice to hear and the pace is set to where it gives you time to take it in but not bore you.
THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF THAT SHOULD BE ON TV!
You mean like Murdoch press. They made a reference to that in the movie The Killing Fields, when Schonberg did his reporting from the Phnom Penh not from some desk in Bangkok
Man, sometimes I feel like the world is a struggle between all the nice people tryng to live their lives and all the crazy idealists trying to save the world.
America bombing the shit out of Cambodia wasn't idealism trying to save the world.
Albert Dillion the Americans thought bombing the shit out of Cambodia would scare the Communist Cambodians into submission so you could technically say it was a sort of idealistic belief:
Great way to put it.
@@Hyxhxie Huh...
Thinking a bit about it and well..
That is incredibly accurate, in fact, one can say that modern professional soldiers, are the most idealistic people on the planet, I mean, most of the professional soldiers, especially junior officers, seem to have an idea that they prevent more harm then they cause.
An interesting idealism.
Sad thing is any nice person can go at least a bit crazy when given absolute power.
Wow. This was intense and again, this is well-done. I got used to more of you talking to the camera in the first season but digging this too especially the angles and grading. I realized while watching this that I know way more about Vietnam than I have ever known about Cambodia probably due to the historical narrative pushed in school curriculum. It's incredible that there was never any closure...
You are not alone. Chinese educated Chinese, are completely unaware that the primary reason why Pol Pot received American support was because of China and Mao (You must remember the famous handshake right?) Also the numbers don't tell the full story go with fractions, the Khmer Rouge killed 1/4 of Cambodia.
Pol Pot also went to University in Paris... Which is how he discovered Marxism
@@Muireachgaming8957 i think Marxism has nothing to do with genocide.. Just some crazy dictator in the name of communism..
And you know what? Behind Khmer Rough was China's support. Throughout the 1980s, they had consistently demanded Vietnam not only to retreat its army, but also to constitute a new Campuchia Government includes Khmer Rough. China had always declared that there was no genocide at all, and Vietnam just told a fake story, using it as a cause to invade Campuchia to reunite Indochina. In my opinion, Vietnam interfered Campuchia not only because its needs of peace and security but also for humanity reasons.
Now we see. Khmer Rough is a devil which killed so many people in vast brutal ways. And we can also see, China is a liar, a big big liar in Asia. It is (not was) because it continue to lie about their nine-dots sovereign in South China Sea. Actually, they has illegally occupied those islands by forces. They took some from South Vietnam (1974) and took some from Vietnam (1988). They shot and killed 64 Vietnamese soldiers.
South East Asia, be careful and thoughtful with China.
Vietnam gov do nothing wrong, the gov have to protect it people. Example in the past Japan boom Us troops in Hawai, the Us boom two city of Japan with nuclear boom and no one complaint about it. My Vietnam do the similar
Not only South East Asia, Russian, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Hong Kong and Republic of China (Taiwan), Indian,...needs to be aware of China. China has changed it's history to trick people of all the worlds to believe and be it's allies, China also always try to fix the border between it and it's neighbour country. The Nine-dash line also the most obvious proof that China is trying to invade Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia,...
@@marinaaguas9219 Fuck China. Thank you.
And yet people are still buying Chinese products and even the smallest thing that is inside an electric device or tool is made in China.
"Tell the Cambodians we will be friends with them. They are murderous bastards but we won't let that stand in our way" _ message given by Henry Kissinger on behalf of the US government to the Thai foreign misister to give to the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime, while they were jenociding people.
After the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge the US sanctioned Vietnam, urged the Chinese to support the Khmer Rouge rebels and the US itself funded and armed the Khmer Rouge rebels and for more than a decade voted yearly at the UN for the ousted Khmer Rouge to retain Cambodia's seat at the UN.
It’s so sad how my school just brushed over the Cambodian Genocide. It wasn’t part of the curriculum but my teacher decided to do a one day lesson on it and my whole class was so intrigued, but since it wasn’t part of the curriculum we all ended up doing our own research on it
governments ultimately want to implement their own version of the khmer rouge, so the curriculum is meant to ignore such.
God bless your teacher for making time for such, because it's a truth that indeed needs to be told. and God bless you all for researching further.
Thảo nào giới trẻ campuchia lúc nào cũng bảo Việt Nam xâm lược, nếu chúng tôi muốn chiếm đất thì để 1-2 năm sau polpot sẽ diệt chủng hết người campuchia rồi xang chiếm sau,
I've been in the S-21 prison. I really wish that I could have spent more time there. It was fascinating but I could feel that it was haunted. Only 7 people made it out alive. Most people only spent a few hours before being killed. In some of the classrooms, there are thousands upon thousands of mugshots of all the people who were brought in. It's horrifying really, but it needs to be talked about. I got the chance to speak with a woman there who told me that her whole family was killed in the genocide because she went to school. Her neighbours told her that the Khmer Rouge waited for her for an hour but she hadn't come back so they killed her entire family and left their corpses in their home. She spoke as if she was completely disconnected from what had happened. I think that talking about the genocide and discussing how it affected modern Cambodia is necessary to help them heal. Great video!
I've had a similar experience when I visited the concentration camp in Dachau Germany. A sinister sense of dread sent shivers down my spine. Unbelievable to what ideological fanatism can lead to. I'm still horrified by that experience but it's a valuable one. Those are stories that have to be told, to warn us not to make the same mistakes. Everyone should once visit a place like that as a reminder to value what they take for granted.
BouncingCookie not only idealism... hate as well
I visited in 2005. I was there 3 hours. And in that time not one person spoke. Complete silence.
We helped Cambodia build their goverment and together fight against pol pot, pol pot still kill Cambodian until 1989, then new government of Cambodia strong enough to keep peace, so Vietnam withdrawn and then in the 21 century, young Cambodian people learned history from tiktok of china and then spread hate that Vietnam want to ocuppy Cambodia, so sad, i leared we are friends in the school and now it is not like that, Cambodia is so strange. So sad for thoundsand of Vietnam people died in that time, young people do not live in that time can not understand what happened with their country by pol pot and nuon chia, they are not Cambodian, they are chinese and want to do Mao and deng policy that time.
Most of the people incarcerated at S21 were fallen Khmer Rouge themselves.
Thank for the coverage on Khmer's past, this is good to have in historical archives and such. Let it be known since we're almost forgotten, again thank you.
They forgot a few things. Khmer Rouge were anacho-communo-primitivists. Initially during the Vietnam war they came and asked for help from USSR , which saw where this was going and responded NOPE !. They went an allied themselves with China eventually. Due to growing rift between USSR and PRC , Vietnam was on the side of USSR , PRC and Khmer rouge decide to invade Vietnam at the same time this results in so called border skirmishes a massive but short term war. Khmer Rouge were fighting Vietnam with help from PRC and US and UK. Pol Pot was educated in France.
That is true, but that should be another video topic; the political side of it.
Realpolitik is a son of a bitch.
Vector Freeze5 He forgot to inform us that U.S funded Khmer. R thru Thailand including Youn who help depopulate indigenous people Mon Khmer (no land claimer) smh.
Ivan Monahhov Pol Pot knew Youn took in thousands of orphanage to (during U.S bombing 1969-1970) become foot solider for Youn so those Khmer opharage kids can infiltrate in Khmer .R camp and start murdering Khmer civilian smh. Funny how President Nixon and Henery Kissenger started this illegal war in Srok Khmer and still known as a Hero smh. What a joke...
WOW im from Cambodia and i never saw any one talk like you did GREAT JOB
010101Gaming So what is your problem nigga?
@@yuththegod5697 for real lol
6:22
They decided to invade vietnam .
Vietnam : *I'm gonna end this whole mans career*
that call pro gamer move
They had China backed up, thats why they have the guts to invade. But Vietnam said:" Omae wa mou shindeiru."
Outstanding move
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Not even a single soul on Earth:
Khmer Rouge: *invades the country that just defeated the most powerful superpower and gave them room to rise to power, whose wartime army is still largely standing*
Vietnamese were like th-cam.com/video/IUB-wjXUREE/w-d-xo.html
Cambodia claimed war with Vietnam. After 3 weeks the Vietnamese army got control in Phnom Penh
Pol Pot: Nani??
He think he stronger than French, American and Chinesse to win Vietnam. Stupid Pol Pot. He began the new war since 1975 with VN. Vn attack him in 1977 is too late for me. Maybe VN dont want war and scare of UN. But people see. The UN was lead by China, US. Fuck. 5 leaders of UN Rusia, the US, China, France, England
4 of them invaded Vietnam
Fucking them.
So Pol Pot killed Cambodian, Vietnamesse, Champa...in 4 years . The UN still support him to be member, protect him, cover him. Fucking UN
@@JohannPachelbel81 United Nations? More like Useless Nations
@@JohannPachelbel81 learn to speak english
@@ydk1k253 at least he can tell for everyone understands everything
The original format was more enjoyable. It felt really intimate, like a story you were telling a friend. Its better when you showed us things personally, instead of using stock photos. I love the history and the culture, but what is best is the philosophizing at the end. Keep up the good work!
Kyle Tarrao I agree. Within a few videos I went back to that manner of talking. It is just my natural style. Why fight it?
That said, we've still kept a number of changes we like for the rest of the season. They are easier to employ in countries where prison is the end result of filming.
Still, the content and its narration are outstanding. I know i'm late, but i wanted to thank you. I have, as everyone, studied about the conflict in school, but i was never aware of its real implications and the injuries it has inflicted
stock images?
During my 2 years of exploring the routes and battlefields of Vietnam War, I spent 1 month of that time in Cambodia alone. It shows how sometimes the domino effect that the US feared in Asia is sometimes partially caused by them instead of Cambodia doing it independently.
Hokata great observation! My father was KIA in VN in ‘71. The US government is a criminal organization at this point. I can only hope the good people in our country can remove the cancer of our entire government structure. And soon.
When Vietnam had to help the people of cambodia against The Khmer Rouge, what the United Nation had done?, they embargo Vietnam, China and The US supported for The Khmer Rouge because political reasons, fuck at all
I am wondering that how Lee Hsien Loong feel when he watch this clip, he maybe not believe in what happened in Cambodia. He is still proud of what his father did, that is supporting Pol Pot and lasting the war longer than it should have been.
Singapore benefited lots from existence of polpot regime
Cant believe my eyes that these words a President could say, thousands of Vietnamese civilians were killed by a brutal way
Lee Hsien Long is a Chinese descendant anyway.
Lee hsien long is singapore dictator he is pol pot best friend ..he support pol pot to fight viet nam....and vietnam told this singapore dictator shut up or they will zip his mouth....
Shh later he’ll sue you
i think it's quite interesting how remnants of the khmer rouge become a fact of everyday life here in cambodia; the s-21 prison, known colloquially as Toul Sleng, is referred to casually, as though it's nothing but another street marker - eg. "turn left at toul sleng to get to toultompong market". the minefields are just places we avoid, without much thought put to it. adults in their fifties and older will talk about the atrocities of the khmer rouge casually - eg "oh, you were sent to the broken plate commune? i was kept in phnom penh. we had enough food, but my brother in king's tiger commune starved to death." my mother is familiar with all sorts of plants and animals because she needed to be. she'll point out berries that are bitter and horrible-tasting but she had eaten anyways because she needed to stay alive. she says that they weren't allowed to touch the mangoes in the trees of the pagoda she and other young girls had stayed in, not even when they'd fallen to the ground on their own, because the soldiers would shoot them on the spot. she says that when they worked in the fields, she found insects and stored them in her clothes to eat later, when she was in private and wouldn't be accused of stealing food from the regime. and she says all of this casually, like she's reminiscing about a bad storm that'd blown over. its truly humbling how survivors of the regime just picked themselves back up and started working with all the suffering around them accepted as a part of life.
When humans are tortured they can't help but talk about it to help ease some of the pain, when in pain it is best to talk about it, that helps you improve.
My parents never talked abt it like ever. My dad born in a countryside so I guess he didn’t really experience anything horrible. I know Pol pot targeted rich and powerful people in the city. He just casually mention young soldiers and told me how at this age I could have carried a gun and not knowing how to open stuff.
My mom on the other hand never talked abt it. Actually my mom side of the family only told us to watched all the movies and read all the books related to it. My aunt in the U.S asked me if my mom ever mentioned what she gone through and I said no. She told me to someday sit down with her and asked her what happened. When we were in Cambodia, my mom suffered from depression and she also very very very over protective of me and my brother. I know cause none of my friends parents were as protective as her. I was not allow to hang out with my friends and I was 17 at the times !! She actually was diagnosed with depression when we moved to the U.S tho. Actually her mental health improves a lot since we moved here. She start working again and so she stop worrying abt us which is great for both me and my brother. She still take her medication but she literally a different person now and we all happy for her
Tuol Sleng, ur welcome
I take my hat off to your mum. To all mums and dads and all the people who had suffered the unimaginable and yet managed to shake it off a bit and form today's Cambodia - a place and the people I grew VERY fond of, and that's only after I spent literally 3 days there.
No high schooler will learn this in class
In which country? I learned about this in middle school (though not all the details in this video).
+Melissa Jansen this isnt in most schools in the US considering this isnt not as known to some, but thats why i talk about it and share my story in the genocide to much people as i can and sharing it around the internet so people are aware that isnt. and in this video just saying is just the tip of the ice berg, this isnt even all of the things that happened but is good enough to let you know of the war.
I learned this in public schools. But we only spent a day on it. There is only so much you can cram into a class. The problem with the 20th century is that we don't have enough distance from it to really see what is important. We spend more time talking about the Beatles invading America, than the Soviets invading Hungary.
I remember getting in an argument with my history teacher because we spent twice as much time talking about how American women benefited from WWll than actually talking about the fighting in WWll.
We will probably have to wait for all the baby boomers to die before we can get an objective view of the late 20th century.
I learned basic information on all major genocides and massacres in grade school. My mother is Cherokee, so she was sure us kids received a very non-scrubbed view of history.
Why would Western schools teach stuff about the bad things their governments have done? They're not stupid.
I entered the comments section, nervous. It's TH-cam after all; the more grisly, more horrifying, or the more divisive the topic, the worse the arguments get. I expect calls of "This is what always happens under Communism" or "This isn't real Communism". Instead, I see people enjoying the video, learning about the past, and reflecting on the future. That's a very pleasing change compared to elsewhere.
I had the Same reaction.
@Eric B Let's ignore 60 million with Mao and the gulags of Stalin, okay? Yes, let's spare this ideology from criticism but criticise Nazism only and everything attributed to it. Let's just not equate hammer and sickle with swastika.
@Eric B Khmer Rouge was communist. Even Communists fight among themselves (Orwell illustrated this a lot in his books).
@@eraliaa3219 th-cam.com/video/ClLKm8Q8Pns/w-d-xo.html On the death count of communism
@@eraliaa3219 No, Pol Pot was not at all a communist. First of all, he was backed by the cia to kill actual communists in Vietnam and Laos. Second of all, he officially renounced communism in the 80s. Third of all, None of his policies actually reflected communist policies. His policies were much closer to that of a brutal form of primitivism. Just because he adopted communist imagery and rhetoric does not at all make him a communist. This is pretty obvious.
You don't need to thank us, it's us that need to thank you for providing these amazing videos!
Absolute goosebumps. This channel always leaves me with a chill and shivers.
Thank you for this amazing and eye-opening documentary. It is really sad to see what happened to a great nation under the oppressive regime of the Khmer Rouge. Yet still the spirit of the nation will help it rise again and build a brighter future for the generations to come...
I've never really thought about how the Vietnam War affected other countries. Really great camera shot at the beginning.
It affected at least the whole Indochina. And at some extend, the whole world.
Interesting timing. Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father documentary came out a few days ago and today I see Rare Earth talking about The Cambodian Genocide. Literally losing sleep to learn more about this.
Bernadette Duisters it’s hard to find accurate info as little documentation exists. The KR killed all educated people. Very few left to tell the story. I studied the KR back in the 90’s in college and it is one of the most insane idealistic brutal and sickening things anyone has ever done to people - let alone to your own people.
The Nazis on the other hand were anal about documenting everything. That is why so much is known about everything they did.
Laung yun ❤️🙂
Why watch the "documentary"? I read the book twice and balled my eyes out twice.
"First, they killed my Father" Is one of the best potrays of this sad part in history.
I've been to Cambodia this year and our tour guide told us about his survival story on the way to Siem Reap. He was originally from Pnom Phen and about 6 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. His family of 17 was split up and brought to different labour camps. He said he was in a child labour camp with 100 other children. They had 4kg of rice per day, which gave each kid 4 spoons of rice a day. He considered himself lucky if he was able to kill and eat a snake when no one was watching, but he knew he risked his life when he did. He also told us that one day a guard caught some kids and him climbing a tree, trying to eat the very hard, not yet ripe fruits. He was told to come down and bring a fruit, and he was so happy. But the guard smashed it on his head until it broke, more than 40 times. He blacked out and still has pain there today.
Later his older brother (then 16) was caught climbing a palm tree to drink the water in the leafs. He and his two immidiately younger brothers were brought to the main guard at the town centre, and then sent to "school", which meant killed with iron rods. The children had to dig graves and bury them and all the other dead children each morning. He cried when he told us that so many mothers would never know what happened to their beloved daughters and sons.
The tour guide said that, when the regime fell, he was malnourished and disorientated and didn't know where anyone from his family was or if they were even still alive. He stumbled along the road for three days, approx. 70 miles and by sheer coincidence spottet his mother.
They lost 6 members of their family in 3 years and 8 months, his father, his three oldest brothers (he told us the names and then calculated real quick for us how old they would have been now) and two younger sisters who died of malnourishment.
It was hard to look him in the eyes afterwards. I work with very very traumatised people, think of former child prostitutes or girls that were sold in child pron rings. But nothing came close to what I heard our guide told us that day and nothing shook me to the core like his story.
“Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
-C.S. Lewis
Basically, the Abrahamic God.
Sadly, still very accurate today.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this, I consider myself an informed and educated person and I have literally never heard of this. This rare earth series has been some of my favorite videos on TH-cam, its very refreshing to see such well researched work that really tries to dive deep into the history, the culture and the feeling of what its like to live in other countries. I cant wait to see more from you!
Holy fuck. I had no idea about this. They dont teach this stuff in school. They barely even teach the Vietnam war any more... Thanks for doing this Evan, Francesco and Mr. Hadfield. And as you say in the credits, im definitely going to be doing more research on this.
Well, I mean, I wouldn't go THAT far but, the US educational system is fucked up.
What's the holodomor?
They want to cover it, buried it 1km under the ground.
because on that war time..usa and china support .the evil men pol pot
I can relate. I knew Pol Pot was some evil Cambodian dictator, but I had no idea how horrific it truly was. It was like the wanted to maximize the amount of misery they could cause in 4 years or so.
Reading all the comments of survivors children or grandchildren is great, glad You guys are here
At that time. China, American, Singapore, Thailand, they support Kherme Roge. And the small contry, weak contry, poor contry try their best to stop the Kherme Roge. That contry is VietNam :)
Please, come to Colombia, we need this kind of documentaries about the recent peace treaty , hell, I would even give my room for your team a few days.
English below. Tiếng Việt ở trên.
From the nearly-completed genocide of the Cambodian people at the hands of the heinous Pol Pot clique under direction and orchestration by China’s Expansionist Rulers (and urged on and supported by the US Administration to exact revenge on Vietnam), thinking of the barbaric genocide, physical and cultural, now being committed on the Uyghur people by China’s Expansionist Rulers ....
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This is about the heinous genocide that's being perpetrated on the hapless Uyghur people in Xin-Jiang, China (East Turkestan before that country was invaded, occupied and renamed by China's expansionist Rulers)
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# Đây nói về nạn Diệt chủng người Campuchia và người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs) ở Tân Cương, TQ, do Bành trướng Trung Quốc chỉ đạo, gây ra.
# Năm 1975 - 1978, Bành trướng Trung Quốc điều khiển chỉ đạo bọn Diệt chủng Pôn Pốt .... (và Chính quyền Mỹ xúi giục giúp đở để trả thù Việt Nam)
# trong nước thì gây nạn Diệt chủng khủng khiếp lên Nhân dân Campuchia để dọn sạch Campuchia, sẵn sàng đón Cố vấn, rồi tới Lính (khi Pôn Pốt thua Việt Nam, phải kêu gọi Bành trướng Trung Quốc vô giúp), và sau đó là Công nhân, Dân thường Trung Quốc, vô tràn ngập biến Campuchia thành 1 tỉnh TQ nữa như Tân Cương;
# ngoài nước thì tiến đánh Việt Nam và gây ra những tội ác man rợ lên Đồng bào VN ta.
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Beside the barbaric Genocide committed on the Cambodian people during 1975 - 1978 to wipe Cambodia clean of Cambodians and ready Cambodia for Deng_XiaoPing-Mao_ZeDong's Chinese advisers, then troops, then colonizers, to flood in, there is another no-less barbaric Genocide that has been committed on the Uyghur people, and is now continuing; and the Culprits are the same: The boundlessly greedy, ruthless, brutal, expansionist Rulers of China.
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# Tội nghiệp người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs). Giống như người Tây Tạng, họ bị Giới Cầm Quyền Bành trướng Trung Quốc tiến hành Diệt chủng vừa tinh vi vừa thâm độc tàn khốc.
# Họ bị Diệt chủng vừa con người vừa văn hóa.
# Cộng đồng Thế giới phải giúp họ trước khi họ bị tiêu diệt hoàn toàn; và phải LÀM GẤP.
# Nga ở sát bên là có thể giúp tốt nhất.
# Mỹ, Nhật, Đức, Anh, Pháp, Canađa, Turkey, ... và Cộng đồng Quốc tế phải cộng tác với Nga để giúp cứu người Duy Ngô Nhĩ (Uyghurs) thoát nạn Diệt chủng nầy, thay vì chống phá, kèn cựa với Nga.
# Xin nhắc lại: Phải LÀM GẤP.
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Poor Uighurs (Uyghurs). Like the Tibetans, a very cunning and extremely vicious genocide is being committed on them by China's ever greedy, ruthless, brutal and expansionist Rulers.
# They are subjected to a genocide, both physically and culturally.
# The World Community must help them before they are completely exterminated; and QUICKLY
# Next-door Russia can help best.
# The US, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada, Turkey, ... and the International Community must cooperate with Russia to help the Uyghurs escape this Genocide, instead of opposing, stirring up trouble and causing difficulty for Russia.
# Repeat: World MUST HURRY, before the Uyghurs are gone.
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The Uyghur people is being subjected to a systematic, ruthless, extremely cunning and vicious genocide by China's ever greedy expansionist rulers. The Uyghurs are about to be exterminated, physically and culturally, unless the World helps them, QUICKLY.
Another excellent video. Love seeing your work guys!
"For a nation so associated with the trauma of the past, it is hard to find people here who don't focus on the promise of the future." Gorgeous.
We never really learn about this in schools, it's one of those things you see mentioned in a book or a television show, but you never really LEARN, it's just buried alive and forgotten, but you help us to see and learn.
You handle the stories with such care and precision, and despite all this you still have a touch of self-deprication that ties you back to Earth. You get people to THINK, and I think that's what we need most in the world right now, humans who think with their own hearts and brains.
Thank you for telling these stories, thank you for being such a wonderful storyteller, and I can't wait to see more glimpses of the rare stories of Earth.
I know that these comments often get lost in the windstorm of cyberspace text, but I hope you see this one, and I hope it makes your day a little brighter, and your goal a little clearer. Thank you again, both for the videos and for listening to the words of a schoolgirl.
I'll be watching.
Rare Earth is easily one of the best channels on youtube. I just noticed you did a show on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
I ReALLY enjoy this being a fairly small channel, and I hope it stays that way. Even though it might not be good for the creators (thank you for giving us great content!), it's certainly good for everybody else. We have enough of these channels pulling in three or four million views on videos with 25.000 + comments. It's just not enjoyable being a part of such a large community. In a smaller community, people can get their voices heard and participate on a whole new level, and that's worth SO MUCH MORE than millions of views. You are doing everything right, and I really enjoy the show! Have a good day, viewers and creators :)
My mom and her family witnessed a lot of this. My mom was In a prison camp where she saw people being killed every day. She later escaped to America but it's nice to actually know the cause of all of it. Thanks for the awesome video :D
The Khmer Rouge thought they could take on Vietnam, but they were annihilate right back to the forest.
Just recently found your videos, I especially appreciate that when you add your opinion that it is "your" opinion. Most media these days is seriously lacking in journalistic ethics.
The videos by you I have watched would require someone inhuman to not have an opinion. You do an amazing job of telling the facts and keeping the opinions separate.
By the way I wrote this comment before watching this video, which is what i'm going to do right now.
Very good summary. Usually I can find something to complain about in a presentation, like this, but you did a very good job.
A piece of me dies every time I see these videos. My beloved Cambodia 😢❤️🇰🇭🇺🇸
I've only been there, first time ever, a month and half ago and am simply in love with the place and its people - so I fully understand and share those sentiments 👍👍❤
I'm khmer too and i empathize with u very much
This is my favorite one you guys have made so far! I knew about Pol Pot's regime executing intellectuals, but I never understood the why behind it. Keep it up!
You forgot to mention
Vietnam, of course, continued to brand itself the liberator of the Camobidian, and stressed continuously that at the time of the genocide, the whole world but Vietnam turned a blind eye to what happened.
However, nowadays the Cambodian government is ran by whatever left of that Pol Pot, and the country is being educated that Vietnam was an invader just like the rest. They did not even mention their offensive.
So even right now there s a propaganda war, where Vietnam keeps digging up survivors to tell that Vietnam was a liberator, and Cambodia keeps digging up China and UN's proofs that Vietnam was an invader.
I waited through a few videos. Solid work all. Good content. Thanks.
Best explanation of this conflict that I have seen online: good job, outstanding!
2:14 I never knew this. They never taught this in school. That’s incredibly upsetting
Never trust education systems.
school is for learning . that is the biggest lie. don’t be surprised that they didn’t teach you this. we don’t learn we just memorize and forget .
Pronounced ka-mai. Beautifully done. Brings tears to my eyes. I have only been met with kind eyes and sweet smiles from the Khmer people.
No pronunciation is Khmer,only american says cum,eye.
Americans pronounce it as kuh-mere
it’s like ‘sigh’ but with a more curvier accent to it, like khmigh. does this makes sense? i cant think of an english word that perfectly fits the pronunciation
@@thefirstofitskind895 Wikipedia lists the pronunciation as [kʰmae] and I don't think the [ae] sound occurs English, though it's pretty close to the "i" sound. I'd be willing to bet the "er" spelling comes from the Brits: In British English, "r" isn't pronounced at the end of words and instead modifies the Vowel before it, so British colonialists would hear strange vowels sounds and use "r" to represent this. I know this is how "Burma" ended with an r in the name despite there not being an r sound in there.
This video is incredibly informative, thank you 10/10
This doc. Was very informative. That period in time was "hell on Earth".
The film "They first killed my father" explains it all
The book is 10x "better"
After Pol Pot's death in 1998, Cambodia's population and economy grew a lot. As of 2019, Cambodia IS THE 6th fastest growing country in the world.
Glad to hear
awesome Rare Earth keep spreading knowledge!!
me realizing that if my grand parents didn’t survive this, i wouldn’t be here today 😕
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?"
It’s insane how this was ranked the third worse genocide to ever happen, and yet it doesn’t even get a full page in history books.
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 executed.
# 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?"
You're such a good story teller and this is such a well put together documentary.
Bravo for the little Orwellian touch (1984 t-shirt). That (hi)story is horrifying
Hi to you too
My grandpa almost got killed, but thank god his neighbors hid him when the army was looking for him
It's mentioned but partially elided that the western powers who supported the Khmer Rouge after they were ousted, in the 80's and 90's, was primarily the USA. It wasn't just as a counter to Russian-supported Viet Nam but as part of their de facto alliance with China, the Khmer Rouge's traditional backers.
This is so good. Thank you for sharing this with us 🙏
I've enjoyed every video of yours that I've seen. You do quality work.
Thank you Vietnam for stopping the genocide
You're right there has been almost nobody held responsible for the horrors and most former Khmer Rouge remain living peacefully and more often than not with privileges still. I've spent a lot of time in Cambodia a few years ago and know the place and people well. A Khmer hotel owner and well connected older woman there whom I know was a school teacher who somehow survived. Her obvious wealth and connections today make clear why that it. The UN history in Cambodia is atrocious too. They are known for having debauched so many of the young girls there's even a standing display depicting this at a village museum in Siem Reap.
I've been to the killing fields. The tree was the most sobering for me. They'd hang infant children upside down by their feet and bash their heads against the tree. There is still fragmented bone and clothing stuck to the bark to this day.
what a well thought out, heartfelt presentation. thank you for your time.
I wish you all the success for your channel. It is important work you are doing. Cheers!
Thank you for your video! I was born in Cambodia around Nov. 1974 and I was found in a bombed village. I was one of 2 survivors from the village, me and another baby. We were brought to the Canada House and were to be adopted. I also escaped being put on a plane that crashed called Operation Babylift. I was lucky that last min a Canadian Airforce plane offered to take anyone going to Canada on his plane the next day. And me and the 65 Cambodian babies and our Canadian nurses escaped being killed on that plane crash. I grew up in Canada... arrived in Montreal April 6th 1975 and was all over the newspapers with my parents...
I'm writing a book right now. And I am doing research on Cambodia! Thanks for the video! xo Leah
Thanks for sharing your story. Look forward to reading your book - Love from Đồng Tháp, Vietnam (Good that it's very peaceful everywhere now, in Vietnam, in Cambodia; it's now all about "enjoy life and make happy")
our family (8 of us) left phmon penh with a little food half way. no food left so we have to catch rats in the rice fields of the farmer to grill n eat, n I didn't know this was the beginning. of the killing field . we walked from PP all the way to Kampong Trach n walked back to Kampong Speu stuck there for 7 month that's starving beging we ate only ripe palms fruit to survive n final destination Dontree village they transport us there by (ANGKA) n that 's where. khmer Rouge soldiers took my dad away n beheaded n I lost 2 older. brother rn 1 little sister 😭😭😭😭 of starving skin n bone only I almost not make it.Dontree village I saw it a'll with my own eyes. they. Killed innocence people day n night I was soo scary n I did not know when is my turn.1978 war break out I survive ! I survive! but trauma n nightmares is still with me every day at work or at home. n. be still with me until my last breath.😭 life is unfair
Get on up! Brave man!
That is the reason why we, the Vietnamese, fought to the bitter end against the Khmer Rouge. We fought to protect our people, to save our neighbor, to fight for what is right.
No thanks, no recognition, and we were condemned for that
No matter how you do the videos or where you lace the camera, I really don't want this series to end (I almost watched 3/4 of them)
Just keep rare earth goin you have no idea how much this is good and how much I find it interesting.
I am a child of Cambodia. The suffering of our people was real. I am only five years old at the time, i remembered every vividly. I think it is a learning experience and the future leader of Cambodia will rise from the killing fields and lead to a more compassionate and loving people and country. Thank you a beautiful documentary that base on so much facts about our suffering. I hope the world learn from our history and protect the human right all over the world. I hope one day i am worthy enough to serve my people.
vietnam fixed this big problem
You boys rock. It's almost unbelievable something like this happened only a few decades ago. How did those people not see what they were doing??
(unfortunately) Everything is eventually forgotten -- otherwise history would be less inclined to repeat its worst atrocities.
This guy is an artist. Activism, history, politics all in a such a neat package. This channel needs more subscribers.
An excellent program that earned a new subscriber.
It takes a lot to make my eyes tear up, even after talking to a gentleman I know who survivor Auschwitz, but this video made me cry, I remember watching this unfold in the 6 o'clock news, but never getting the full story. Thank you for this video because no matter how raw and in your face it may be the victims of Pol Pot need to be remembered.
I am from the us and the only reason I know about this is because in a video about life expectancy I saw Cambodia's drop to 19 in 1977 so I looked this up and found this. It's really sad they dont teach this to anyone in schools in the US.
Because, at that time, the US actually were supporting the Khmer Rogue and condemned Vietnam for defeating the genocidal regime, so of course they will hide all of this information. While school is for learning, it is also for brainwashing and propaganda.
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.
Well put together and very educational, well done
Interesting and informative video, thanks for posting!
Great video Evan. I am fascinated by east Asia but realize I know very little about Cambodia. Your video (as your credits suggest) is prompting me to do more research and educate myself - thanks.
+Thelonious M sadly I don’t see much on the genocide online but hopefully you’ll do good! If you have any questions on it just ask me since my family was part and suffered through it so I know most lmao
Amazing stuff! I caught myself binging all of your Japan videos late into the night, haha. My new favorite channel on TH-cam! Would love if you covered the Philippines someday.
I think the most interesting part about genocide is how readily (mostly) young men/soldiers everywhere are willing to inflict pain, suffering and death to people they don't know under the excuse of doing what's right. It happens everywhere and in any time in the history of humanity, groups of young men of fighting age bring horribly violent. It's the awful nature of our species. We're cursed 😐
As i understand
yeah, It happens in every war, on all sides. There are no good guys or bad guys, there is only human nature.
@@garyjohnstone6422 gary, LOL your comment is so ironic. You're so ignorant, you don't seem to realize violent crime far predates any notion of communism. 🤔
Thank you. This was the best and most objective summary of Khmer Rouge regime and its crimes
Thanks for the wonderful historical video.
Listening to this made me cry
# 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 executed.
# 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?"
I dont know whats taken me so long, but my parents are from both Cambodia and Vietnam and survived what happened there. We live peacefully in Canada but I am just starting to learn about the history and what has happened to them, they must have seen some crazy shit , I never appreciated this or took it seriously. This was wrong way of thinking. They never talk about it, but I know atleast 1 of my parents have trauma from this but i dont know why i never thought about it or connected it. I can only be a better son from now on. Also I feel more pride and proudness of my parents from the bottom of my heart now knowing this is the adversity they dealt with to get me to be a succcesful individual in the western world today. i just shed tears i have never shed in my whole entire life. Thanks for this amazing video and I am happy I started this journey to understand my own families history