The Horrors of Cambodia's Past - Retracing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's footsteps

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In the mid- to late 1970's, Cambodia faced one of the worst atrocities in modern history. During the communist revolution in Cambodia led by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge revolutionary army, approximately 25% of Cambodia's population was killed off. Not only were they killed, but they were often killed in the most brutal and inhumane ways possible. In this video we retrace some of the key places during the dark period and discuss some important and lesser-known issues from the revolution.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum
4:55 China's support for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
12:08 Choeung Ek Killing Fields
19:52 Wat Botum
21:07 Botum Park and the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument
23:07 Closing
#cambodia #history #phnompenh #khmer
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@blacksnow77 Ай бұрын

Very interesting video! Chapeau! This is journalism!

@mikestewart4752 Ай бұрын

Thank you for documenting this difficult subject matter. What you do has importance. ☮️

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Appreciate ya, Mike!

@yvonnezed Ай бұрын

This is so exciting, in a tragic kind of way... I label myself a hobby historian, I love filling up notebooks with "random" tidbits of history when my son's asleep in his bed at night (because education doesn't have to stop when school does!). I've read about these events briefly, and you said at the beginning of the video, you can't fathom any of it really. Its impossible to do so when you're just reading about it. It's one thing to read about it, it's another thing entirely to "see" it! It's still unfathomable to a degree... This was absolutely epic, thank you so so much for sharing this with us!! Absolutely fascinating, soul crushing, intriguing, heart wrenching... It's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster 😅💜

@yvonnezed Ай бұрын

Also yes, China etc throws around the world democracy because they think it's what us "westerners" want to hear. If they call themselves a democracy enough times, people will start to believe it... (And surprisingly, they aren't wrong. Some westerners actually do now believe that China for example, are a democracy 🤦🏼‍♀️😅)

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Sounds like a good hobby to me! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video. It was an important one for me to make and I wanted to try to do it justice and include a few angles that other videos on it didn't. It was a long day, a hot day, but a day well spent. You sound like an awesome mom, btw!

@yvonnezed Ай бұрын

You definitely did it justice! A very sobering, almost sombre, respectful, meaningful justice This is now my favourite video on KZfaq. I've seen a couple of videos on this over the years, but they were pretty much just reading out the Wikipedia page. Your video is so very different, and incomparably better! You certainly made this part of history almost palpable, which others haven't done, and Wikipedia and books could never do. I can only imagine that making it took a bit of an emotional toll though? It's a very "heavy" topic, and to be physically "there", my inner empath would suffer for it 😅 If it did affect you in some way, I hope you do/did something fun, or relaxing after... ☺️ And thank you, I don't know about awesome, but I try 😏😅💖

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

@@yvonnezed Wow - that's about the highest praise a content creator can get. THANK YOU! You have made my day! 🌹🌹

@yvonnezed Ай бұрын

No need to thank me! I just talk too much! 😂 Jokes aside (though I definitely do talk too much 😂), you're the one giving your time and content to us strangers on the internet!! We are the ones who need to thank you for all you do, and letting you know your content is "top tier", and appreciated, is nothing. It's "doing the bare minimum" 😅

@blindpilot3849 Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this piece of history of Combodia. Hope this never repeats again.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching/commenting!

@laoma4131 Ай бұрын

Thanks for reopening my eyes to this dark history which only happened fairly recently.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

It's pretty mindblowing just how recent it really was! Thanks for tuning in my friend!

@floydmayweather2043 Ай бұрын

I came to this place in Cambodia. It was crazy! Not only crazy, but that place had a strange Erie feeling to it. Poor folks.

@mattmortenson9677 Ай бұрын

Really sad to think about what they went through.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

It sure is... I enjoyed making this video, but it wiped me out emotionally.

@ziggyA1001 Ай бұрын

My impression from living there back in 2014 was a real prejudice against Vietnam and Vietnamese people. Hun Sen was installed into power by Vietnam and he used that to cement his 30+ years of rule and now dynastic handover to his son.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Thanks for tuning in and adding to the conversation!

@ziggyA1001 Ай бұрын

My pleasure, great channel the Chinashow sent me your way Anecdotal example. My students would always shout "Yuan" and laugh if anyone did something stupid. I later found out this was a pejorative term for Vietnamese people! Which didn't go down that well with the American teacher whose mum was Vietnamese. I was also told that during Vietnamese rule a lot of financial exploitation went on by Vietnamese during that period. Wholesale looting of copper electric cables, etc.

@tonydevos Ай бұрын

Better hun sen than pol pot

@luckyip1875 Ай бұрын

I’ve been there once, it’s really one of the most horrific places in the world! Hope all the victims there would rest in peace!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🥺🥺🥺

@blacksnow77 Ай бұрын

Is shocking

@jgdyt Ай бұрын

I have visited that museum and the Killing Fields. It was a life changing event. I will never forget it. I think more Americans should see it. Feel better, go to Angkor Wat.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching/commenting. Very cool that you have been to these places as well.

@jgdyt Ай бұрын

@@chopsticksandtrains You've certainly seen more than I have. Have you ever asked people in Mainland China if they know about Pol Pot or the Khymer Rouge? I've brought it up in a few discussions. Most don't know what he is responsible for, and those that have heard of Pol Pot don't know what happened was a communist cultural revolution.

@jemappllesphan6143 Ай бұрын

I don't think those kids were begging for money, I think they were just giving a Sompeah, a gesture for hello

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

The boy actually said, "Money"

@wadadli4sun Ай бұрын

09:30 There was a sizable Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia. Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge considered all non-Khmer to have corrupted the country and killed them. All ethnic Vietnamese that stayed were killed and some 300.000 fled. My partner is Viet and currently works in Phnom Penh, but I don't think she has visited the museum. Probably should be mentioned that whilst they were ousted in '79, cliques of Khmer Rouge hung on for a further 25 years mainly in the NNW of the country.

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

Great comment. Yes, during my research for this video I did see that Khmer Rouge rebels were still fighting as late as 1994. Interesting to hear about your partner's situation as well. Just based on your life situation (correct me if I'm wrong) you're living in Cambodia while seeing a Vietnamese woman... I'm sure you have a whole host of insights into the complexities and nature of the relationships there.

@wadadli4sun Ай бұрын

@@chopsticksandtrains I wish......It's complicated. I only visited for a few days around Christmas, then we travelled to Sài Gòn. She's working on a contract in PP. We originally met in Sài Gòn, were I was about to take a new job, but the start up folded. She then did a masters degree here in the UK and had to return (visa), then 'the virus that shall not be named' and life circumstances. We're working on it! Started watching Matt and Winston + various SEA channels back in 2016 to get a greater understanding about living in primarily Vietnam and HK. ✌️

@chopsticksandtrains Ай бұрын

@@wadadli4sun Very interesting story - thanks for sharing! Wish you best with all that - and yeah, Matt and Winston are amazing. All the best brother