#khmer rouge

[news4dzhozhar]

He certainly proved the adage "only the good die young" living to 100.

#war criminal #henry kissinger #burn in hell #Vietnam #cambodia #laos #bangladesh #chile #argentina #east timor #khmer rouge #pol pot #war crimes #good riddance #its about time

[beardedmrbean]

Oh no I burned the soufflé again

#communism #socialism #khmer rouge #cambodia #pol pot

[jay-wasreblogging]

Henry Kissinger has died!!

#196 #r196 #r/196 #:3 #me and who #ruleposting #as a cambodian and a child of Khmer Rouge survivors. i hope this death brings even just the littlest of peace to all victims and survivors! #henry kissinger #khmer #Khmer rouge

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, in just 4 years it is estimated that 1.7 million were killed by dictator Pol Pot (1925-1998)

*  Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

#Cambodia #1975 #1979 #1.7 million #killed #dictator #Pol Pot #1925-1998 #Killing Fields #killing field #Phnom Penh #Cambodian genocide #Cambodian genocide. #Comunist #comunism #Khmer Rouge #Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

[reasonsforhope]

"A trove of precious jewelry from Cambodia’s past has been repatriated after surfacing in London.

Totaling 77 artifacts from the medieval kingdom of Angkor, they are believed to have been trafficked from the country during the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge and the civil wars that plagued the country during the 20th century.

Angkor was one of the greatest powers in the East between the 9th and 14th centuries. Their theocratic capital of Angkor Wat is considered one of the 7 Wonders of the Medieval World, and today is still the largest religious complex on Earth.

The treasures date squarely to this period of flourishing and some of the crowns are believed to have sat on royal brows. They include items “such as gold and other precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period including crowns, necklaces, bracelets, belts, earrings, and amulets,” the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts said in a statement.

The items came from the estate of recently-late serial art trafficker Douglas Latchford, who for many years was considered an expert antiquities appraiser, but was later discovered to have worked alongside the Communist Khmer Rouge to traffic hundreds of artifacts from the country.

Now, many of the nation’s historical treasures are returning, and this trove is just the most recent tranche.

Last year, US citizens or institutions returned either voluntarily or by court order, 30 items sold by Latchford, including a 10th-century sculpture of the Hindu god Skanda atop a peacock considered a “masterpiece.”

The year before that, the estate of Latchford, who died in 2020 before he could be convicted of antiquities trafficking, sent back five bronze and sandstone sculptures to Cambodia."

-via Good News Network, 2/22/23

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Bonus Info:

"The return of the items followed a September 2020 agreement with Latchford's family under which all Cambodian artifacts in their possession would be returned to Cambodia. Other stone and bronze artifacts were returned in September 2021."

-via NPR, 2/21/23

#angkor #cambodia #southeast asia #khmer rouge #antiquities #ancient art #ancient jewelry #ancient history #repatriation #museums #art history #good news #hope #anti colonialism #museum ethics

[ivovynckier]

"Wise man" Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon illegally expanded the Vietnam War to Cambodia.

The end result of this special military operation? Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge murders 1.5-2 million Cambodians, 25% of the population.

#henry kissinger #kissinger #war criminal #war crimes #richard nixon #nixon #vietnam war #cambodia #khmer rouge #pol pot

[bear-of-mirrors]

…… when you learn that the US supported the Khmer Rouge and even voted to let them keep Cambodia’s UN seat until 1993 after Vietnamese intervention deposed them and stopped Pol Pot’s genocide in 1979 so that the US could try and weaken Vietnam’s influence in Southeast Asia.

#cambodia #cold war #vietnam war #vietnam #united nations #united states #history #khmer rouge #tw genocide

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

christianity listed as number one even befire judaism lol

#varg vikernes #thulean perspective #anti intellectualism #christianity #khmer rouge #islam #judaism #sjw #crony capitalism #quora #found #he hates christianity so much lol

[kodachrome-net]

Interrogation room, Tuol Sleng, 2005

#cambodia #tuol sleng #toul sleng #khmer rouge #cambodian history #s-3 #s3 #s3 prison #phnom penh #khmer #asia #photographers on tumblr #original photography #lumix dmc-fz20 #mekong.net #bruce sharp #2005

[workersolidarity]

Watch "How the USA and China backed the Atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge" on YouTube

An interesting look at the history between Kampuchea, Vietnam, and Pol Pot during the Khmer Rouge regime

#pol pot #Kampuchea #khmer rouge #socialist history #communist history #marxism leninism #socialism #communism #socialist politics #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #Youtube

[falseandrealultravival]

An army that bullies its people is weak: Myanmar, Cambodia, and China (Essay)

Pol Pot

The rogue Myanmar military, which carries out airstrikes on its people, is in turmoil. Three ethnic minorities on the border with China and Myanmar's pro-democracy forces are uprising, and the military is at a standstill. Although it is their fault, I believe a military that exerts power over its people is fragile.

The same can be said about Cambodia, a fellow Southeast Asian country that suffered turmoil in the 1970s. The Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), headed by Pol Pot, forced the Cambodian people into forced labor and committed genocide: small China, small Mao Zedong. The Khmer Rouge fought against Vietnam (Cambodia-Vietnam War: 1978-1989), but it lost momentum against its people and fled into the jungle. It is vulnerable to external forces.

The model for the armed forces of Myanmar and Cambodia was the Chinese military, which bullies the weak Tibetans and Uyghurs. China is strong enough to defeat external powers. Sino-Indian War (1962), they defeated India. However, India lost because its military equipment and systems had not been modernized. At the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), China sent as many as 1 million volunteer soldiers to try to force a draw. they haven't lost. I haven't heard of any other stories about the Chinese army winning.

If you compare Pol Pot and Mao Zedong, they are very similar. They are incompetent as policy managers and less than mediocre as military commanders. China will probably lose if it fights an external force on par with itself. Therefore, China today wants to be looked at as "strong" in many ways externally, but isn't this because they want to avoid going to war? They are weak.

Rei Morishita

自国民をいじめる軍隊は弱い（エッセイ）

自国民に空爆を行うような外道のミャンマー軍が動揺している。中国国境の３つの少数民族と、ミャンマー民主化勢力が蜂起して軍は浮足立っている。自業自得であるが、自国民に力を振るう軍隊は脆いものだと思う。

同じ東南アジアの国で１９７０年代に荒れたカンボジアについても同じことが言える。ポル・ポトを首魁としたカンボジア共産党＝軍（クメールルージュ）は、カンボジア国民に強制労働を強い、大量虐殺を行った。小・中国、小・毛沢東である。このクメールルージュがベトナムと戦い（カンボジアーベトナム戦争：１９７８－１９８９）、自国民に対しての勢いはどこへ行ったか、クメールルージュはジャングルの中を逃げ回った。外部勢力にはからきし弱い。

ミャンマーやカンボジアの軍隊のモデルになったのが、弱いチベットやウイグルをいじめる中国軍である。中国は、外部勢力に勝つほどには強い。インドとの戦争（Sino-Indian War:

１９６２）で、インドに勝った。ただしインドはその当時、軍の装備、制度が近代化されておらず、負けたのだ。朝鮮戦争（１９５０－１９５３）の終盤、中国は１００万人にも及ぶ義勇兵を派遣し、引き分けに持ち込んだ。負けてはいない。他には、中国軍が勝った話は聞かない。

思うに、ポル・ポトと毛沢東を比べると、両者は非常に似ている。政策運営者として無能で、軍指揮者としても凡庸以下である。たぶん、中国も、自分と同等の外部勢力と戦ったら敗北するだろう。だから今の中国はいろいろな意味で対外的に「強面」であるが、現実に戦争することを避けたいからではないか？実質弱いから。

#An army that bullies its people is weak #Myanmar #Cambodia #China #essay #rei morishita #Khmer Rouge #Pol Pot #Mao Zedong #Vietnam #India #Sino-Indian War

[cemyafilmarsiv]

The Killing Fields directed by Roland Joffe

#Khmer Rouge #political cinema #The Killing Fields #Roland Joffe #cinematography #cinema #photography #7

[xtruss]

War Criminal Henry Kissinger’s Cambodia 🇰🇭 Legacy of Bombs and Chaos

When News of Henry Kissinger's Death Spread this Week, Many Disgusting Former World Leaders Lined up to Pay Tribute.

— By Ouch Sony & George Wright | BBC News | Phnom Penh & London

War Criminal, Most Disgusting, Boak Bollocks and Hell Bound 🔥 Henry Kissinger

Former US President War Criminal George W Bastard Bush said the US had "lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs".

Former UK War Criminal Prime Minister Bloody British Bastard Tony Blair described the ex-US secretary of state as an artist of diplomacy, who was motivated by "a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it". Boris Johnson called Kissinger "a giant of diplomacy and strategy - and peace-making".

But peacemaker is not a term you're likely to hear many in Cambodia use when describing Henry Kissinger.

During the Vietnam War War Criminals, Kissinger and then-President Richard Nixon ordered clandestine bombing raids on neutral Cambodia, in an effort to flush out Viet Cong forces in the east of country.

Altogether, the US dropped more than 2 Million Tons of Bombs on Cambodia from 1965-1973. For context, the Allies dropped just over 2 Million Tons of bombs during the whole of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Kissinger maintained that the bombing was aimed at the Vietnamese army inside Cambodia, not at the country itself.

Vorng Chhut Recalls People Being Killed By the War Criminal US Bombing

Vorng Chhut, 76, had never heard the name Henry Kissinger when bombs started dropping down on his village in Svay Rieng province, near the Vietnamese border.

"Nothing was left, not even the bamboo trees. People escaped, while those who stayed in the village died," he said. "A lot of people died, I can't count all their names. The bodies were swollen and when it became quiet, people would come and bury the bodies."

A 2006 Yale University report, Bombs Over Cambodia, stated that "Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history".

A Pentagon report released in 1973 stated that "Kissinger approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids in 1969 and 1970" as well as "the methods for keeping them out of the newspapers".

"It's an order, it's to be done. Anything that flies, on anything that moves. You got that?" Kissinger told a deputy in 1970, according to declassified transcripts of his telephone conversations.

The number of people killed by those bombs is not known, but estimates range from 50,000 to upwards of 150,000.

War Criminal US Dropped More Two Million Tons of Bombs on Cambodia 🇰🇭

One of the most notorious incidents was the accidental bombing of the small town of Neak Luong, where at least 137 Cambodians were killed and another 268 were wounded.

A New York Times report by Sydney Schanberg, who was later portrayed in the film the Killing Fields, quoted a man called Keo Chan, whose wife and 10 children had just been killed.

"All my family is dead!" he cried, beating his hand on the wooden bench where he had collapsed. "All my family is dead! Take my picture, take my picture! Let the Americans see me!"

Another man stood near an unexploded bomb in the town asked simply: "When are you Americans going to take it away?"

Unexploded American bombs littered the Cambodian countryside, maiming and killing people for decades to come.

Many also say that another consequence of Nixon and Kissinger's bombing campaign was that it helped pave the way for one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. Around 1.7 million people died at the hands of the Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 - almost a quarter of the population.

An Estimated 1.7 Million Died Under Khmer Rouge Rule

Prior to that, the ultra-communists had little support, but its ranks grew as American bombs fell.

The CIA's director of operations reported in 1973 the Khmer Rouge forces were successfully "using damage by B-52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda".

In 2009, the first Khmer Rouge official to be tried for crimes committed under the regime's reign of terror told the UN-backed court: "Mr Richard Nixon and Kissinger allowed the Khmer Rouge to grasp golden opportunities."

Kissinger always pushed back on criticism regarding the bombing of Cambodia.

"I just wanted to make clear that it was not a bombing of Cambodia, but it was a bombing of North Vietnamese in Cambodia," he said in 1973.

When he was 90, he claimed bombs were only dropped on areas "within five miles of the Vietnamese border that were essentially unpopulated".

Watergate Scandal Criminal Richard Nixon, Seeing Here Pointing at a Map of Cambodia 🇰🇭, and the War Criminal Kissinger Ordered Clandestine Bombing Raid on Cambodia.

Elizabeth Becker, an American journalist who covered the bombing campaign in 1973, said this was not the case.

"First you interviewed the refugees as they were coming away from the bombing, then you'd go to the bombing and there were moonscapes - you'd see the corpses of buffalo, you'd see houses burned, the rice fields gutted," she told the BBC.

"You saw the destruction and you thought: why was this modern air force bombing the countryside so much? In those days the farmers of Cambodia weren't even used to seeing motor vehicles, they routinely said to me: 'Why is fire falling from the sky?'"

Pen Yai, 78, cooperated with the Viet Cong inside Cambodia before the bombing started, but said large numbers of civilians were killed by American bombs, including his father and brother-in-law.

"I was so scared and could not sleep. People died everywhere. We just ran and recognised people who had been killed... we could not do anything," he said.

Many world leaders have praised Kissinger, who shared the 1973 Nobel peace prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Vietnam war and was later handed the Presidential Medal of Freedom - America's highest civilian award.

Prim Hen Says She is Still Angry at the War Criminal US to this Day

But few who were in Cambodia in the 1970s will remember his legacy fondly.

Prum Hen, 70, was forced to flee her village when American bombs started raining down. She said she knew little about Kissinger and felt little sympathy when informed of his death.

"Let him die because he killed a lot of our people," she said, adding that she still feels deep resentment towards the US.

"They bombed our country, killing a lot of people and separating people from their children. Later on, the Khmer Rouge killed husbands, wives and children."

Ms Becker said the gravity of Kissinger's policies in Cambodia cannot be understated.

"To say the bombing was imprecise... it was inhumane. It's not just the number of people, it's the legacy.

"You cannot exaggerate what it did to the country."

#Hell Bound 🔥 War Criminal Henry Kissinger #War Criminals Bush & Blair #Watergate Criminal Richard Nixon #Cambodia 🇰🇭 #Khmer Rouge

[strejdaking]

Seems relevant.

#henry kissinger #renegade cut #war crimes #vietnam #vietnam war #richard nixon #cambodia #khmer rouge #Youtube

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Some 8,000 skulls at the Choeung Ek Memorial (Stupa) near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

📸  One more shot Rog

#skulls #death #khmer rouge #killing fields #killing fields of Cambodia #phnom penh #cambodia #skeletonization #dead #massacre #cambodian genocide #genocide

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 7 of the 50 book challenge. My survival in the killing fields by Mao Sim. The author survived the killing fields in Cambodia as a 5-10 year old and her mother, older brother and younger sister survived as well. It’s very short but interesting story.

#book 7 #50 book challenge #2024 #my survival in the killing fields #mao sim #history #Cambodia #biography #pol pot #khmer rouge #murder #starvation #book #me