CAMBODIA: KHMER ROUGE GUERRILLAS DEFECT TO GOVERNMENT ARMY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2015
- (6 Jun 1998) Khmer/Natsound
Over one-thousand Khmer Rouge fighters have switched sides, trading in their guerrilla gear for official Cambodian army uniforms.
It was a scene long thought unimaginable at Anlong Veng, the rebels' stronghold until its recent capture by the army with the help of Khmer Rouge defectors.
The induction ceremony marked what the army hopes will be the death of the Khmer Rouge, the communist movement whose reign of terror killed as many as two (m) million Cambodians.
Not long ago this sight would have struck fear into the toughest of government troops.
But now these Khmer Rouge guerrillas have finally given up their decades-old fight, and with it, their last base of power.
Anlong Veng, close to the northern border with Thailand, was meant to be an impregnable fortress, but it fell on Friday with barely a gunshot.
In an orderly display of surrender, the last bastion of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge guerrillas officially joined the government side.
Hosts of government officials flooded into this once dreaded stronghold, to celebrate the handover.
Among them was Ke Pauk, the guerrilla commander whose defection in March led to the Khmer Rouge's road to collapse.
Few could have ever expected to see Defence Minister Tea Banh
(pronounced TAY-AR BARN) so relaxed with men who would likely have shot him just a few weeks ago.
His walk among his recent enemies was a telling example of the swift changes that have occurred in this dark corner of Cambodia.
The more than one-thousand Khmer Rouge troops swapped their old Chinese Communist-style uniforms for the government issue fatigues - demonstrating their new desire for peace.
The fighters' surrender followed the over three thousand others who had defected from Anlong Veng over the past three months.
With the fall of the base, the final destruction of the notorious guerrilla group seems closer than ever.
Up to two million Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge regime during their 1975-1979 reign.
Since its overthrow, Khmer Rouge troops have fought a guerrilla war in an attempt to hold onto their legacy of power.
But the fight appears to be losing its followers.
On Friday they listened, and apparently approved, as their former commanders publicly vowed that those bloody days of genocide were gone forever.
SOUNDBITE: (Khmer)
"I'm very happy to join the government now. The war's over at last."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop, former Khmer Rouge commander
But many still bear its scars and wonder what the future holds.
But the evidence of change and hope were apparent.
This used to be the home of Ta Mok, nicknamed "the Butcher," who succeeded Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot.
The home stands empty, still featuring inside maps of Cambodia, the country that the Khmer Rouge campaign so brutally ruled.
Despite promising signs of change, some dedicated followers are still clinging to the past.
The Khmer Rouge's current leader, Ta Mok, and a handful of loyalists are believed to be hiding somewhere in the jungles
Several kilometres away from Friday's ceremony, troops still loyal to the hardline leadership patrolled what's left of their territory on the Thai-Cambodia border.
These are the first pictures of Khmer Rouge forces since the death of Pol Pot.
They had vowed to wage an attack to retake their old base during the defection ceremony, but their threat proved hollow.
For now, all they appear to have left are a few kilometres of jungle in a cause with few fighters left.
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Miss that time so much 😪
When was this filmed?
90s I guess
98
Cambodia Goods
เตียบัน.เนี้ยมป๊ะ
CAMBODIA thank you the /UNTAC / so mụch
Heroes
ប៉ៃលិន?
Tại sao ko thay mũ của kheme đỏ bằng quân phục khác nhỉ .khó hiểu ông hun sen thật.
Your country
campuchia thank you the us and / unhcr /
Where vietnam
Viet Nam muôn năm
go home.
ขาดสารอาหาร...รุนแรง
Traders.....can't beat them join them...should of lined them up for the firing squad.
I think you meant traitors instead of traders (traders are the ones who engage in trade/commerce)
@@elendil6144 not a good speller no school
คนพวกนี่แหล่ะเอาตัวรอดเก่งในป่า
ពួកអាស្វារស់ក្នុងព្រៃយូរណាស់មកហេីយ
คนป่าทั้งนั้น..มนุษย์โบราณ จะไปสู้ไครได้
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Your country
สู้กับพ่อมึงไงไอ้สัส😅
สงสารช่างอนาถาแรงงานตัดอ้อยยังมีสง่าราศรีก่วานี้
30ปีกอ่น
why they're kill too many children and wemon ?..
THAT HOW THE COMMUNISTS ARE. VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST SAME SAME . THEY KILLED TOO MANY WEMON BACK IN VIETNAM WAR
@@vietgiancongsanoiquan4699 are you fried? it was communist vietnam that ousted Pol Pot and his US backed Khmer Rouge maniacs
@@DynamiteBarcTrooper NO MAN. IS WAS THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS NOT U.S
VIỆT GIAN CỘNG SẢN ĐỘI QUẦN except it was the us
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge
@@DynamiteBarcTrooper ALLEGATIONS MEAN. I THINK YOU GIVE THAT GUY SOME MONEY BUT I 'M NOT SURE. AND I THINK THIS STORY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS SIDES. THAT HOW THE COMMUNISTS ARE. THEY DID SOMETHINGS THEN BLAMES FOR OTHER LIKES THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS THEY COULD SHOW YOU A CRAZY VIETNAMESE GUY STAND ON THE SIDE WALK OF HO CHI MINH CITY AND TELL YOU THAT CRAZY GUY WAS CAUSES BY THE U.S AGENT ORANGE
เป็นเขมรแต่ดันไปไส่ชุดทหารเวียดนามเฮ้อช่างไม่เป็นตัวของตัวเองเลยมีอะไรที่คิดเองได้มั่งเขมร
ไม่ใช่ชุดทหารเวียดนาม มันแป้นชุดทหารเขมรแดง
นักหัวหรือ
Jbong บักเขมร😬😁มาทำงานในไทยติอาระบาน😬😁
@@user-rc8sj2zl8r ไอหา
@@user-rc8sj2zl8r USA
Mặc cà sa là phật, bỏ cà sa thành quỷ.
nói ngược rồi. thành phật mới mặc cà sa, thành quỷ thì bỏ cà sa.