Around 26,000 Vietnamese died to fend off the Chinese invasion in the North in 1979, and around 25,000 Vietnamese died from 1975 to 1989 in Cambodia to stop Khmer Rogue back to power. I hope the young Cambodians don't forget 20~30 years ago, there were also people who were young and still had bright future. Yet because of war they died in foreign land.
@sinreaseyduch1495 Vietnam and Cambodia are always good brothers. I am Vietnamese. I am very grateful to Cambodia for helping us during the Vietnam war.
In the end the Vietnamese did leave on their own, after having built, against all odds, a sufficiently stable Cambodian government that could stand up against KR remnants backed by both the West and China. Only for Cambodians to follow the KR's footstep of discrimination and paranoia against ethnic Vietnamese.
@@CokeNire Yes, you're right, and exactly because the Cambodians have a long history of f kg themselves up, they should be paranoid about themselves, not Vietnam!
Friendly reminder: Until 1993, the KR had a seat in the UN, and the British special forces provided military assistance to the KR guerrillas when they were at war against Vietnamese troops and the government from Thai camps in the 1980s.
It's a big fat lie that the KR received military assistance from any western country never mind fro British special forces. Go peddle your BS somewhere else.
Bây giờ chúng tôi phải đối mặt với bộ phận lật sử đổi trắng thay đen bất chấp những bằng chứng lịch sử rõ ràng Dù bất kỳ thời đại nào trong lịch sử thì có vẻ như chính quyền Campuchia vẫn luôn là con rối của nước khác
@@advanced2780 As a Cambodian, please don't spread your communist Viet cong ideology on this comment. We all know it is all politic, don't use 2 million death of Khmer people as a political advantage and claimed yourself as hero when Vietnam betrayed Cambodia and sided with Soviet when we help you fought against American, we gained nothing but betray and now you are a hero, don't you feel shame? 2 million deaths shouldn't be use as political games, it is in the path. Release Cambodia, no hero claim themselves as hero,
Im 69..remember how this was "discovered" after years of this happening. As a teenager in New Zealand..it shocked me for life that we were never informed till after it was over
This wasn't mentioned on Vietnam documentaries but there wasn't much said just that we failed and they really don't want to talk about stuff that makes Americans feel worse I guess we gotta go to work pay the bills 😂
My GF is a KR survivor. Born in a refugee camp after being displaced by the genocide. We live in Auckland now and the Cambodians are thriving here. Go and look at all the cafes in mangere bridge. Most of the workers, owners there are refugees from the genocide. No holding them back now
My mother experienced the Pol Pot era, during which she was captured by the Khmer Rouge and confined to a labor camp, where she witnessed the killing of friends and family members before her eyes. She expressed that the Vietnamese intervened to liberate many Cambodians from the ongoing genocide. To this day, she is profoundly grateful to the Vietnamese soldiers who saved her life. Although my mother is aware of the Cambodian community in America, she has not engaged with them, as she has converted to Christianity and now identifies solely with her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and God. ❤❤
What Vietnam did, in clearing the Khmer Rouge, was/is certainly commendable and justified. My uncle was a PAVN soldier in Cambodia in the 80s. I do however think that people on the internet who learn bits of history through this medium often leave out nuance. The United States diplomatically aligned with the Khmer Rouge, via the exiled coalition government only after '79 (though it denied giving direct financial/military aid to the KR). I've seen claims that the US gave support between 75-79, which is improbable considering the Mayaguez incident. I would even go on to say that Vietnam was not squeaky clean. The North Vietnamese army did aid the KR during the Cambodian Civil War, though the relationship later became fraught, with reports of clashes with the NVA. Prior to the termination of diplomatic relations, Vietnam maintained an embassy in Phnom Penh and state media in both countries extolled their friendship (however the KR was also conducing cross border raids, killing numerous civilians). This is a talking point that has been made by Cambodian nationalists concerning Vietnam's actions in the country - the relationship between Vietnam and KR. I will say that most countries take care of themselves first, and (unfortunately maybe) it is not their priority to intervene in another country. What Vietnam did was justified, and self-defence, but it didn't start out of a vacuum, like so many pop-history people suggest.
simply Vietnam at the time totally didn’t expect how the Khmer Rouge would turn out to be, I don’t think anyone would have expected that, it was beyond just cruel
That is misleading. The US never supports the Pol Pot in anyway or any form. The main problem with the US is that it abandoned SE Asia altogether. Pol Pot came into power with its forces backed by the Chinese Communists and as the result, the genocide happened. Were the Vietnamese Communists the angels that would come voluntarily to Cambodia to liberate people there from the Pol Pot massacre ? Not a chance if the Khmer Rouge did not attack Vietnam and threatened to destabilize the country which the Vietnamese Communists spilled their blood to win and unify recently.
@@oakspines7171Fact: The US did support the KR by ordering Thailand to house them, sending aid to feed them, secretly arming them, holding Cambodia's seat at the UN for them for 13 years.
I don't understand the cruelty or how the Khmer Rouge thought their ideology could result in a successful country. They would kill educated people or anyone who didn't have callouses on their hands, amongst others. It seems insane.
They promote the idea of Kampuchea kingdom from the ancient Champa kingdom as a power house of agriculture, and self-sufficient in food like the China revolution from Mao. So everyone must be a farmer, anything else is forbidden as it counts as propaganda and lies by the west. The doctor got sent to the labor camp and they believe any sickness can be cured by ancient folk medicine lore. So they destroyed all of modern medicine and hospitals. All of the other scientists and teachers also got purged because it is considered as promoting enemies propaganda and going against the Khmer kingdom wise.
It is insane, all these regimes are led normally by psychotic psychopaths and they surround themselves with more of the same and then the sheeple go along. People are not a healthy species.
So. There was a highly evolved society called the Khmer there that lasted from something like 800-1500. And the Khmer Rouge...they were trying to bring it back. And not just in name. They were trying to bring it back, as in what they thought was the way of life those people lived and everything. Nevermind the fact that 1000 years have gone by. Nevermind that the concept of communism didnt exist to people in the year 1000. Nevermind that even an ancient society had thinkers and inventors. They idealized the Khmer and thought they could make their civilization as powerful as the actual Khmer were.
Can you see right now, in november 2024.. That Trump will not make provocations or kamikaze the country in policies, resulting in a major war or financial crisis... when he do begin his 2nd term? No you cannot... no one can tell the future
Remember that Jimmy Carter - so called "Human rights Icon" is the first US President to ahve supported Pol Pot and the KR's claim to be the "legitimate government" of Cambodia. This is important to remember as he is currently in hospice and is not long for this world. The myth makers are going to spread a lot of misinformation about this supposed "human rights icon" and it's important to remember his role in trying to legitimize Pol Pot.
Actually the US supported Sihanouk, who was part of a coalition of groups that opposed the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge didn't "fight off the Americans", they defeated the Cambodian government's military (which in turn had its supply of weapons and ammunition cut off by the US). And remember that Vietnam armed and trained the Khmer Rouge - it was only after Pol Pot attacked Vietnam due to a border dispute that Vietnam invaded Cambodia.
@@MoeHamHead-bx7og No, the US supported Pol Pot because Sihanouk was just a figurehead with no teeth! Google 'US support Pol Pot at UN'. The US and China insisted that the KR must hold the seat at the UN for Cambodia! The US used Lon Nol to overthrow Sihanouk in1970! If he stood alone, nobody would support him. He had no army to fight Vietnam while Pol Pot did! That's the point! The US and China only used him for political reason because they couldn't support Pol Pot alone after the world had discovered his genocide!
When Death Happens", a Cuban documentary, was filmed in February 1979. It was directed by Jorge Ramón González who entered along with the Vietnamese troops. The bodies of the tortured were still in the cells. The documentary was produced by the Cuban TV Film Studios.
this is incredible...this was in 1980...and the journalism was much much better than todays garbage....this devestated country coming back to life after the crushing power of the khmer rougue..
This is one of horrors of Kissinger’s career,his machinations and sociopathic politics were responsible for the genocide….yet he received a Noble Prize and was praised for his so called courage and leadership,it’s incredible how much suffering he has caused in pursuit of his geopolitical world view…
@@jasonotto9126 The bombings gave Pot and the Khmer Rouge raison d’etre and the nationalistic narrative to cast themselves as the fix for the situation. What happened afterward, obviously, is one of the most indiscriminately evil chapters in modern world history.
I don't know which country supported the Khmer Rouge before 1975 until the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. One question is that if the Khmer Rouge had not attacked Vietnam and killed villagers at the border so that Vietnam would have to fight back and destroy the Khmer Rouge, what would Cambodia be like now... but the problem is definitely, when Vietnam fought against the Khmer Rouge to protect itself and help Cambodia escape genocide. When he returned to Vietnam, he did not leave behind any scandals, something rarely seen in the world, proving his humanity and discipline of the Vietnamese army. One thing is clear: in the 19th century, Vietnam performed a miracle in preventing genocide in Cambodia just like in World War II, the Allies won victory to help the Jews escaped genocide.
North Vietnam supported the Khmer Rouge from 1970-73, while the US supported Lon Nol from 1970-75. And no, the Allies didn't win the victory to help Jews escape genocide. It was only Jews who helped fellow Jews.
honestly we cannot deny that involvement help us to get out of that darkest era, but the long complexcity of political agenda between Cambodia and Vietnamese are beyond the naked eyes of foreigner can see as we're Cambodian who can see it: _if we looked at the earlier stage of this cool/hot war between USA vs Vietnam, it was Cambodia who acted as the catalyst to help North Vietnam (supported by Soviet Union/China) win over south Vietnam (Support by USA) in order to unify the country as it is nowaday...and that dragged us in this cool war between USA & Cambodia..., which lead USA help General Lon Nol to depose the Cambodian goverment running by King Sihanouk as the chief of state because Sihanouk helped North Vietnam to station their troops in the Cambodia's border , which help strategy's advantage of North Vietnam to fight and win over south Vietnam. (Sihanouk was betrayed & lost trust by his cabinet for helping North Vietnam) [ additional info if you need to understand the story there] => And the Khmer rouge who fled to the forest (who was actually againt King Sihanouk policy) with communist ideology got their opportuniy to spread their ideology to Cambodia farmer in the countryside gaining popularity step by step (because lately gained support by Sihanouk as Sihanouk tought that Khmer Rouge would help him to gain back the power)...with the support from Sihanouk, Khmer Rouge was able to raise the troops quicky from the poor farmer in the country and able to fight toe to toe with General Lon Nol troops supported by USA. later USA betrayed General Long Nol and Prince Serimatak agreements by withdraw their drops back and let alone Lon Nol troops faced the Khmer Rouge. Unfortunately, General Lon Nol lost the war without USA support. Lately with new running goverment by Khmer Rouge Ideology (inspired by Mao Zedong's ideology), they put Sihanouk in the house arrest, migrate the city people to the country site, destroy money, factory, modern car anything related to western, kill educated people or previous goverment official as they thought those would be againt their ideology (Honestly I read documentary about their internal conflict of their head of Cabinet, but no one can win over Pol Pot's ideology/decision, which later Pol Pot Kill them for againing his ideology) [Pot Pot is head of Khmer Rouge] ....With their stupid ideology beyond words, people have to wear the same things, have no fucking right under their protection, doing only farming, irrigation, eat in the comminity (almost like animal because traditional farming cannot mass the production and have no enough food for the people)... People started dying because of lacking of foods specially childrens. With their lack of integrity and thought everyone in their goverment was secrety working for CIA or Vietnamese goverment, Pol Pot start the investigation and became paranoid with everyone under his wing, let to the mass killing of innocent people from Citizen, low ranking people to high ranking people...(and I thougth that there is the involvement of Vietnamese secret agent as well for the paranoid's scheme in order to destroy Pol Pot Regime too as Pol Pot did waged war againt Vietname in the border in order to get back all of the land lost in Cambodia Low Part of country by previous king for several generation...., Kampuchea Krom (Ho Chi Minch City nowadays).... _Their help to Cambodia during 1979 also had hidden agenda, which is to take over country political benifits and Cambodia resource...as they knew that swellow Cambodia like Champa was the impossible task...So their strategy for the last 400 years is to swellow Cambodia step by step like the typhon swellow their pray like how they slowly swellowed Cambodia low part(Kampuchea Krom)...and they did it like K5 (ក៥) Project is to kill the man powers of Cambodia to cut the tree in the border to protect again the left over Khmer Rouge etc....
What a lot of commenters here love to omit is the fact that the Khmer Rouge was supported militarily by North Vietnam until 1973, and supported diplomatically by Vietnam until the Khmer Rouge attacked them in 1978. And it's also quite telling that a lot of the people bringing up American support for the Khmer Rouge omit the fact that the US supported the Khmer Republic from 1970 to 1975, and the US and China supported the Khmer Rouge during the 1980s
1998 I visited Pol Pot's brother in Kompong Thom and got the only photo of him. He said he didn't know that his brother was the head of the Khmer Rouge, but his neighbours told us that was BS, he didn't have to work in the fields during the 1970s, when millions died, He stayed at home and did nothing.
Without Vietnamese troops went in 1978, Combodia would have been a graveyard till today. And yes only Vietnam had the gut to help the neighbor that was in trouble. China did not So Cambodians should never forget your courageous neighbor
I have went through this dark and terrifying era in Khmer history during my childhood . I have lost parents and half of my siblings to the regime. My concern is that human never learns and history will repeat at some point and some where. 😢
I never knew my grandparents from both sides of my family mother and father side . All because this monster pol pot. They were all murder by kids around 10 to 12 years old. That why i respect my mother because she was a teacher and she made it. Plus seeing your family get murder i can't explain how strong my mother is.. when she told me what had happened i swear you can make a movie from her life story.. having her own business and teaching. living a well-off life before The monster came and escaping a massacre seeing your whole family murdered living in a refugee camp for 4 years then coming to America and raising a family of 4 barley knowing any English. But still did it she was a really strong woman.
NB The current Prime Minister, Hun Sen, was part of that Vietnamese "oriental blitzkrieg" that took out the Khner Rouge after the Khner Rouge had invaded Vietnam. He had left the KR as a refugee to Vietnam before joining the Vietnamese military. Now, whenever western media refer to him they always call him "Ex Khmer Rouge" but NEVER mention he fled them and risked his life to fight them and take down their government. (Why? Because his government refuses to be a vassal of the US and wants friendly relations with China).
you want to explain how Cambodia's biggest export market is the USA ?.. how Cambodia is no more than a province of China.. the "pig butchering" Chinese Mafia run scam centers in Cambodia. And what happens when the bill from China becomes due - take a good look at what Laos is living through now and it is going to get a lot worse.. oh, you want to explain why desperate Chinese are entering Cambodia illegally looking for work ?
can you explain why there are huge numbers of Khmer?Americans... where are the Khmer/Chinese ???? and you missed the point that China supported Pol Pot... you are full of cheap propaganda..
He was a high-ranking Khmer Rouge commander, probably directly involved in the genocide. Once the top KH lunatics began to turn on each other, he fled for his life and offered to serve the 'historic enemy' because he spotted a chance to regain power in Cambodia under them (exactly what happened). He then proceeded to sell his country into vassalage to China (the China that invaded Vietnam to try to save its KH buddies), and give the middle finger to those who actually saved Cambodians (the Vietnamese) He's a corrupt, authoritarian, but wily little r@t, just like his former KH buddies. FIFY
I’m suspicious of that camp director who is one of the rare survivors that was kept alive due to his ability to keep the machinery running. He freely admitted to assisting in the execution of the torture implements! If there was a Nuremberg style court hearing on war crimes there, they should thoroughly question this guy’s participation in those brutal activities! He seems very sus and is, at the least, complicit with those crimes, even if it is involuntary! He should not just get a pass and walk around like, “oh well, back to normal…!”
The Chief interrogator/torturer at Tuol Sleng returned to his village and lived out his days as a totally free man, even after everyone knew what he had done. You can even find videos of Western journalists tracking him down years later (he hides in his family hut, peering out at them from a safe distance) As with many of the worst offenders, he was protected by the fear that if the new authorities 'reached too far down', they might stir up a new Khmer Rouge reaction all over again. Only a few of the very top offenders were ever held accountable, and only 'sort of' (mostly, they died of natural causes in captivity)
this was normal. The only justice administered was by prisoners and forced laborers when the KR were overthrown. see the famous book on it and how in a couple of instances the freed prisoners bashed in the heads of their torturers with hammers. sadly, Cambodia and KR were too “valuable” to larger powers and there were little consequences for the KR. Instead of the typical rallying cry for justice of “so it never happens again”, there was just a lot of political posturing and. collective “never-mind. nothing to see here.”
The Vietnamese army defeated the genocidal regime in Cambodia, Vietnamese farmers are the world's leading rice producers. Vietnam is not rich but it is the most generous and friendly country in the world.
And yet North Vietnam supported the Khmer Rouge from 1970 until 1973, and diplomatically supported by Communist Vietnam until 1978, when the Khmer Rouge attacked their borders
Cambodians don’t like Vietnam because they feel Vietnam took their land, like the Mekong Delta, a long time ago. Even though Vietnam stopped the Khmer Rouge, many think they stayed too long and tried to control Cambodia.
Rouge was NO leader he was a murderer of the Killing Fields. Cambodians suffered greatly under his power! He will get his punishment on judgment day from almighty God in Christ!! ✅
The Cambodians should be a model on how to deal with such terrible atrocities. So many other countries would still be in shambles if they had gone thru the same horrors. Much love for Cambodia!
Now I wonder how Cambodians thank Vietnam ending the genocide. Not sure though if its intentional. Love this summary of old reports, I am not even born during that time.
@AlexaRobin21 and what's that have to do with the amount of equipment WE left behind? Afghanistan is 3x in size then south Vietnam..........not to mention they captured stuff from dead bodies just as the vc did. H
Nice cope. The United States government funded and protected the Khmer rouge. Chomsky never denied any of these atrocities, he only questioned the media's false narratives.
He could have been argued as somewhat…skeptical of the coverage. Not believing in news coverage of atrocities committed by (until their overthrow) US enemies can be somewhat understood, given how paid for the media is.
Sandy is 97 years old this year, folks! He was in the street of Saigon, VN on the fall of Saigon as the NVAs were rolling into the city on April 30, 1975.
I visited Choeung Ek in 2008. When you walk down the paths around the mass graves, you can see the bones coming up through the dirt. People would pick them up and deposit them next to the graves.
hang chúc nghìn thanh niên VN đứng lên tuyến đầu đã hy sinh, lính hunsen chỉ phía sau, có súng nổ là họ chạy, chúng tôi không thèm lấy 1 mét đất nào của campuchia
The US, China, Britain and Thailand supported and supplied Khmer Rough with weapons and training. Invading Vietnam and committing horrific crimes. My father and uncle were part of the volunteer army to liberate Cambodia. My father's older brother and 2 of his cousins lost their lives defending our country against China's invasion from the North.
Looking at big picture, those countries may supported Khmer Rouge for against communism from Vietnam, backed by Soviet!! It's kind of proxy war during the Cold War !! But in detail, what Pol Pot and the gangs did genocide to their own people, you can't really blame other countries, but Pol Pot's extreme insanity!!
My uncle was an american soldier at the end of the Vietnam war. He was sent into Cambodia afterwards. It was hell on earth, people dying from no food and the dead everywhere.
Khmer rouge and Mao Zedong carried out stupidism not communism. Communism established by Karl Marx and Engels and developed by Lenin based on industrial workers revolution, Mao and Pol pot did their stupidism base on illiterate people.
@@echohunter4199 It's not. It's communism. The two aren't the same. Much of the western world is 'socialist' by US terms. Communism is an utter failure though, even if you someone ignore things like this.
5:00 I had the absolute pleasure of meeting this man when I visited S21 and the killing fields in Cambodia back in 2018, it's incredible to see him here as he was a frail old man when I met him.
After World War II, Cambodian people had experienced the greatest tragedy in the world. Almost one third of Cambodian people lost their lives in gruesome circumstances. But when Pol Pot gained control of Cambodia, Japanese left-wing politicians, scholars and mass media shamelessly praised this and insisted the superiority of socialism over capitalism. Since genocide in Cambodia came to light, they have been keeping silent as if such tragedy had never taken place.
So they essentially underestimated the Vietnamese army and should not have attacked the border post. Is that what happened? Am I sort of getting it right. Does anyone know?
Lived in Phnom Penh for 6 months. The descendants of those who lived through the regime have also been affected. Was having a beer outside a corner shop and a man in his 20's started talking to me and he had some kind of nervous twitch, perhaps inherited ptsd.
You are right, as a Cambodian I see the same, many young people have this weird nervous complexity. many Cambodian don't know what it is, they just think we are super shy but it's not, it's the problem that hold the Cambodian youth potential. I myself been having this same thing since very young age. It's really hard.
it was all the fault of the usa and the west. they destablized the region and then turned their backs of the mess. my heart breaks when i read about that time in history.
Its crazy to think that back in 1975 the vietnamese help the khmer rouge to take power and help pol pot to make bloodiest regime of cambodia history... when pol pot got to the power he fought vietnam in the 1979 because he wanted some land from vietnam and that is why vietnam fought the khmer rouge. Im sure that if pol pot didn't want land from vietnam, vietnam would never attack the khmer rouge and save the cambodian people.
Trong Chiến tranh Việt Nam, Bắc Việt Nam đã hỗ trợ Khmer Đỏ trong huấn luyện và giúp họ lật đổ chính quyền Campuchia. Ban đầu, thủ lĩnh Khmer Đỏ là một người ủng hộ Việt Nam, nhưng sau khi Pol Pot lên nắm quyền, mọi thứ đã thay đổi. Pol Pot chỉ huy Khmer Đỏ tấn công các tỉnh biên giới ở Việt Nam và buộc VPA phải tấn công và tiêu diệt Khmer Đỏ nhưng họ cũng vô tình cứu người dân Campuchia khỏi nạn diệt chủng. 411 / 5.000 During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam assisted the Khmer Rouge in training and helping them overthrow the Cambodian government. Initially, the Khmer Rouge leader was a supporter of Vietnam, but after Pol Pot came to power, things changed. Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge to attack the border provinces in Vietnam and forced the VPA to attack and destroy the Khmer Rouge, but they also inadvertently saved the Cambodian people from genocide.
During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam assisted the Khmer Rouge in training and helping them overthrow the Cambodian government. Initially, the Khmer Rouge leader was a supporter of Vietnam, but after Pol Pot came to power, things changed. Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge to attack the border provinces in Vietnam and forced the VPA to attack and destroy the Khmer Rouge, but they also inadvertently saved the Cambodian people from genocide.
The Vietnamese only supported the Khmer Rouge at the beginning when they were all fighting against the French. Back then the KR weren't a bunch of genocidal maniacs and there were two factions, Vietnamese and Chinese. Pol Pot was the leader of the Chinese faction and he had Chinese roots himself. With aggressive backing from China, he gradually purged all the cadres in the Vietnamese faction. By 1973, he had total control of the KR and turned them against Vietnam by attacking Vietnamese troops in Cambodia's jungle and robbing their supplies. So no, he had Chinese support, not Vietnam's.
It's crazy to think that, because it didn't happen that way at all. It was the United Snakes of Amnesia (are you aCIA disinfo bot??) that supported Pol Pot. This is incontrovertible fact. Go troll elsewhere, Pentabot.
25:00 It's funny he said that. As a matter of fact, the government of Vietnam DID give up control of Cambodia, and the Mekong River DOES flow backwards sometimes. For several centuries, Cambodian kings have used the natural backflow of the river as a demonstration of their power, as they "order" the river to reverse course with annual spring tides. Journalists have always been the worst people in the world to listen to.
No one helped Cambodia at that time but Vietnam did with a high cost of Vietnamese soldier lives, however, it was sad that all of Vietnam effort was misinterpreted.
@Ffhjjkkkbdssrthb tell me when socialism did that? Was it back in the late 1700s when trade unions started? You know decades before Marx was born? Was it during the Roman times when roman citizens demanded days off and fewer hours of work? Was it in Ukraine when socialist worked the people to deletion? Or under Mao when the socialist id the same? Pol pot? I can go on. I cant wait to hear when socialism was the main player in helping the working man(or as the leftist call them deplorables and garbage) dont confuse social programs with socialism. Socialism has caused more pain and suffering than the nutzis and facists combined, by whatever metric you care to use. but they gave us Highways so they should be given a slight break on all the vile things they did, maybe even thanked , right?
@Ffhjjkkkbdssrthb so not socialism as stated, but social programs. Programs like the Romans had, the Fascist had, the nutizis(are these the socialists u r talking about?). Here in the US we have social programs, programs that were uually private programs like Social Security, but that didnt happen because of socialists. Socialists didnt do anything on their own, they jumped on ideas already being worked towards, aligning themself with groups already in power, and tried to take credit for anything that happened. To have "social" in the name of a government type does not mean socialist.(unless we are talking about nations like N. Korea). Socialism/marxism by any meteric used was worse than the facists and nutzis combined. It has caused more pain, misery, and destruction than any other political group.
It was actually Margaret Thatcher who gave the KR political, financial and military aid. Look it up. The tory government sent the SAS to teach the KR how to plant the landmines we sent them.
Scary that the Western leftists supported the Red Khmers, after they had supported Stalin, then simply the Soviet Union, then Mao, etc. Today they support and represent...
Calling the KR socialist is like saying DPRK is a democracy. But can't blame you. The US still aided them until the 90s and sent them tons of weapons, even the UK helped train KR soldiers. Of course you bots gonna get brainwashed 😂
@@titmit6940except the US supported Lon Nol and the Khmer Republic from 1970 until 1975. Only in the 1980s did the US support the Khmer Rouge alongside Communist China
Place is still a pure hell in the stranglehold of the HUN family. Look around there, 1% of the people can drive a Bentley or Rolls Royce oh wow. And the kids of those ones go to university in UK or Aus. So nice. 99% of the rest of the country earns $250 a month.. nice place
When a dictator rakes the wheel this is the result paranoia that leads to mass deaths how many countries have been through this in Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia the list goes on and on.
0:24 🚨NO!! CPK were supplied U.S. weapons by the U.S. government as a U.S. Rebel Militia against Sihanouk and Lon Nol because they were firm about remaining neutral in the Vietnam War and refused to allow the U.S. to attack Viet Kong from the northern countryside of Cambodia. Similar to how we supplied weapons to rebel militias in Syria, or are during currently in Ukraine and Israel.
The historian Ben Kiernan has been widely criticised for his earlier work being very Pro Khmer Rouge. Like many left wing intellectuals, including those who had earlier admired Stalin and Mao, Kiernan only “changed sides” when it was all over and the evidence of the atrocities was overwhelming
It's false to accuse the Khmer Rouge of doing 'a great deal of damage' to the over 1000 year old Angkor Wat and of destroying 'thousands of statues of Buddha'. The narrator himself states at 18:25 that "it's (the damage) very hard to discover- Angkor Wat has no 'proper care and maintenance and no conservation program." The photographic evidence, such as it is, shows that the damage very likely occurred over the previous centuries. Unfortunately, this video is mostly Western propaganda and a poor resource to understand the real damage caused by the Khmer Rouge.
The United States supported the Khmer Rouge in several ways, including: Aid - The US provided millions of dollars in aid to the Khmer Rouge, including to a coalition with Norodom Sihanouk. The US also provided $85 million to the Khmer Rouge between 1980 and 1986. UN seat - The US voted to keep the Khmer Rouge-dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) in Cambodia's UN seat until 1993. China - The US encouraged China to provide military support to the Khmer Rouge. Diplomatic support- The US refused to recognize the new Cambodian government until 1993.
Many of our American family served in war there. None believed the war "winnable". My father 7th division Army in the korean war 50-53. Myself, Lebanon Special Weapons 81-84.
This tragedy still unsolved misery who's behind this killing fields ? Who's created Khmer rouge Pol Pot ? Is it the Viet Cong Ho- Chi Minh there ambitious to take Cambodia and Loas as once country call Indochina. They're already get Kampuchea Krom it South Vietnam in the past it's used to be Cambodia land the Stupid France ceded to King of Vietnam in 6/4/1949.
No. It was the initiative formed by the French colonialists. Go to read: "Going Indochinese" by Christopher Goscha (2012). Do not say what you don't know exactly and have no evidence!
what was Pol Pots vision of future Cambodia ? did he care ? how long did he think the country could last as a medieval society ? he lived as a recluse in the countryside ....just a mad evil man ???
Around 26,000 Vietnamese died to fend off the Chinese invasion in the North in 1979, and around 25,000 Vietnamese died from 1975 to 1989 in Cambodia to stop Khmer Rogue back to power. I hope the young Cambodians don't forget 20~30 years ago, there were also people who were young and still had bright future. Yet because of war they died in foreign land.
I'm a live today because of the Vietnamese soldiers. I lost my father during the Kmher Rouge regime. It was a nearly four years in hell !
After Helping CAMBODIA from Pol pot killings Then Vietnam government Helping turn into CAMBODIA invasion....So Sad
Plenty of brainwashed cannon fodder to go around. You only stopped the Khmer Rouge because of border conflicts not humanitarian reasons.
Thanks you for your help but don’t forget we involve in war because we were helping you fighting with US.
@sinreaseyduch1495 Vietnam and Cambodia are always good brothers. I am Vietnamese. I am very grateful to Cambodia for helping us during the Vietnam war.
In the end the Vietnamese did leave on their own, after having built, against all odds, a sufficiently stable Cambodian government that could stand up against KR remnants backed by both the West and China.
Only for Cambodians to follow the KR's footstep of discrimination and paranoia against ethnic Vietnamese.
I won't say the paranoia is unjustified. Lost of Khmer krom and the Nguyen dynasty occupation tend to do that to a mf
@@Tran5513 No, the paranoia against Vietnam is unjustified. The Cambodians should be paranoid about themselves!
Cambodia and Vietnam relations didn't start from the end of KR. It started long ago before that.
@@CokeNire Yes, you're right, and exactly because the Cambodians have a long history of f kg themselves up, they should be paranoid about themselves, not Vietnam!
@@CokeNire yes, that's exactly why I said so above.
The quality of old news reels puts anything on tv now to shame
The participants are showing character.
wow that's deep bro
You can thank Joe Rogan for that
u mean they both are fake?
@ can tell with near certainty that you didn’t get a great education
Friendly reminder: Until 1993, the KR had a seat in the UN, and the British special forces provided military assistance to the KR guerrillas when they were at war against Vietnamese troops and the government from Thai camps in the 1980s.
It's a big fat lie that the KR received military assistance from any western country never mind fro British special forces. Go peddle your BS somewhere else.
What
There are a British jounarist back then find out this story try to print it and he had found drop death
@@TopatTom Don't listen to Xx6xXT. He's clearly peddling BS. BTW, the KR didn't even acknowledge the UN, never mind apply for UN membership.
@@TopatTom It was Vietnam who brought down the Khmer Rouge.
Took years to learn that it was the Vietnamese army that put a stop to 'Year Zero'. It certainly wasn't promoted at the time.
This newstation reported it in 1980.
America reeeeeeally fuct up Southeast Asia by playing their domino theory games on their turf.
Had something to being backed by UN I guarantee 🤔
@@yippeekiyay9219 And the US recognized the country until 1993.
@@kingnoob9680 No, the USA recognized the Khmer Rouge as the "legitimate government" of Cambodia.
Thank you Vietnam for saving Cambodia from 4 years of hell!!
How?
@@craigbritz1684vietnam sent troops to liberate cambodia
Bây giờ chúng tôi phải đối mặt với bộ phận lật sử đổi trắng thay đen bất chấp những bằng chứng lịch sử rõ ràng
Dù bất kỳ thời đại nào trong lịch sử thì có vẻ như chính quyền Campuchia vẫn luôn là con rối của nước khác
Only to protect its border not to save anybody
@@advanced2780 As a Cambodian, please don't spread your communist Viet cong ideology on this comment. We all know it is all politic, don't use 2 million death of Khmer people as a political advantage and claimed yourself as hero when Vietnam betrayed Cambodia and sided with Soviet when we help you fought against American, we gained nothing but betray and now you are a hero, don't you feel shame?
2 million deaths shouldn't be use as political games, it is in the path. Release Cambodia, no hero claim themselves as hero,
Im 69..remember how this was "discovered" after years of this happening. As a teenager in New Zealand..it shocked me for life that we were never informed till after it was over
This wasn't mentioned on Vietnam documentaries but there wasn't much said just that we failed and they really don't want to talk about stuff that makes Americans feel worse I guess we gotta go to work pay the bills 😂
My GF is a KR survivor. Born in a refugee camp after being displaced by the genocide. We live in Auckland now and the Cambodians are thriving here. Go and look at all the cafes in mangere bridge. Most of the workers, owners there are refugees from the genocide. No holding them back now
My mother experienced the Pol Pot era, during which she was captured by the Khmer Rouge and confined to a labor camp, where she witnessed the killing of friends and family members before her eyes. She expressed that the Vietnamese intervened to liberate many Cambodians from the ongoing genocide. To this day, she is profoundly grateful to the Vietnamese soldiers who saved her life. Although my mother is aware of the Cambodian community in America, she has not engaged with them, as she has converted to Christianity and now identifies solely with her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and God. ❤❤
As I recall the US kept Pol Pot a seat at the UN for many years after.
@@martyn26.2 Isn’t America great ?? 😁😁😁
What Vietnam did, in clearing the Khmer Rouge, was/is certainly commendable and justified. My uncle was a PAVN soldier in Cambodia in the 80s.
I do however think that people on the internet who learn bits of history through this medium often leave out nuance. The United States diplomatically aligned with the Khmer Rouge, via the exiled coalition government only after '79 (though it denied giving direct financial/military aid to the KR). I've seen claims that the US gave support between 75-79, which is improbable considering the Mayaguez incident.
I would even go on to say that Vietnam was not squeaky clean. The North Vietnamese army did aid the KR during the Cambodian Civil War, though the relationship later became fraught, with reports of clashes with the NVA. Prior to the termination of diplomatic relations, Vietnam maintained an embassy in Phnom Penh and state media in both countries extolled their friendship (however the KR was also conducing cross border raids, killing numerous civilians). This is a talking point that has been made by Cambodian nationalists concerning Vietnam's actions in the country - the relationship between Vietnam and KR.
I will say that most countries take care of themselves first, and (unfortunately maybe) it is not their priority to intervene in another country. What Vietnam did was justified, and self-defence, but it didn't start out of a vacuum, like so many pop-history people suggest.
simply Vietnam at the time totally didn’t expect how the Khmer Rouge would turn out to be, I don’t think anyone would have expected that, it was beyond just cruel
That is misleading. The US never supports the Pol Pot in anyway or any form. The main problem with the US is that it abandoned SE Asia altogether. Pol Pot came into power with its forces backed by the Chinese Communists and as the result, the genocide happened.
Were the Vietnamese Communists the angels that would come voluntarily to Cambodia to liberate people there from the Pol Pot massacre ? Not a chance if the Khmer Rouge did not attack Vietnam and threatened to destabilize the country which the Vietnamese Communists spilled their blood to win and unify recently.
Countries, especially a particular one, should mind their own business, even more if nobody asked for their "help".
@@SurnaturalM Fact: Hun Sen and a bunch of others went to Vietnam and asked for help.
@@oakspines7171Fact: The US did support the KR by ordering Thailand to house them, sending aid to feed them, secretly arming them, holding Cambodia's seat at the UN for them for 13 years.
I don't understand the cruelty or how the Khmer Rouge thought their ideology could result in a successful country. They would kill educated people or anyone who didn't have callouses on their hands, amongst others. It seems insane.
They promote the idea of Kampuchea kingdom from the ancient Champa kingdom as a power house of agriculture, and self-sufficient in food like the China revolution from Mao. So everyone must be a farmer, anything else is forbidden as it counts as propaganda and lies by the west. The doctor got sent to the labor camp and they believe any sickness can be cured by ancient folk medicine lore. So they destroyed all of modern medicine and hospitals.
All of the other scientists and teachers also got purged because it is considered as promoting enemies propaganda and going against the Khmer kingdom wise.
It is insane, all these regimes are led normally by psychotic psychopaths and they surround themselves with more of the same and then the sheeple go along. People are not a healthy species.
So. There was a highly evolved society called the Khmer there that lasted from something like 800-1500. And the Khmer Rouge...they were trying to bring it back. And not just in name. They were trying to bring it back, as in what they thought was the way of life those people lived and everything. Nevermind the fact that 1000 years have gone by. Nevermind that the concept of communism didnt exist to people in the year 1000. Nevermind that even an ancient society had thinkers and inventors. They idealized the Khmer and thought they could make their civilization as powerful as the actual Khmer were.
Mao did a similar thing in China
So did Stalin did in Soviet Union. Stalin put around 20 million people in slavery like the gulags. They worked you to death.
Remember that the USA aligned itself with the Khmer Rouge and against Vietnam. Vietnam brought down the Khmer Rouge after it fought off the Americans.
Can you see right now, in november 2024..
That Trump will not make provocations or kamikaze the country in policies, resulting in a major war or financial crisis... when he do begin his 2nd term?
No you cannot... no one can tell the future
Worst was part of UN
Remember that Jimmy Carter - so called "Human rights Icon" is the first US President to ahve supported Pol Pot and the KR's claim to be the "legitimate government" of Cambodia. This is important to remember as he is currently in hospice and is not long for this world. The myth makers are going to spread a lot of misinformation about this supposed "human rights icon" and it's important to remember his role in trying to legitimize Pol Pot.
Actually the US supported Sihanouk, who was part of a coalition of groups that opposed the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge didn't "fight off the Americans", they defeated the Cambodian government's military (which in turn had its supply of weapons and ammunition cut off by the US). And remember that Vietnam armed and trained the Khmer Rouge - it was only after Pol Pot attacked Vietnam due to a border dispute that Vietnam invaded Cambodia.
@@MoeHamHead-bx7og No, the US supported Pol Pot because Sihanouk was just a figurehead with no teeth! Google 'US support Pol Pot at UN'. The US and China insisted that the KR must hold the seat at the UN for Cambodia! The US used Lon Nol to overthrow Sihanouk in1970! If he stood alone, nobody would support him. He had no army to fight Vietnam while Pol Pot did! That's the point! The US and China only used him for political reason because they couldn't support Pol Pot alone after the world had discovered his genocide!
When Death Happens", a Cuban documentary, was filmed in February 1979. It was directed by Jorge Ramón González who entered along with the Vietnamese troops. The bodies of the tortured were still in the cells. The documentary was produced by the Cuban TV Film Studios.
Can u put a link?
Link pls, I want to watch it too
Sounds interesting.
Link please, very interested
im interested to watch the docu and hoping kindly you can provide a link on where to watch it 😊.
Back when British news was the best. The BBC make me embarrassed to be British now.
You embarrass too easily. Must be woke.
this is an ITN news report,the clue is in the letters ITN in the top right hand corner 🤣
Don't be so pedantic , I think he means " journalism " in general . Which as he states is embarrassing.
BBC is just dogshit now.
@@rafd3593the bbc knew about and aided Saville in his 30 year crime spree against children. I guess they’re ok if you support that sort of stuff.
this is incredible...this was in 1980...and the journalism was much much better than todays garbage....this devestated country coming back to life after the crushing power of the khmer rougue..
This is one of horrors of Kissinger’s career,his machinations and sociopathic politics were responsible for the genocide….yet he received a Noble Prize and was praised for his so called courage and leadership,it’s incredible how much suffering he has caused in pursuit of his geopolitical world view…
He's done many things but explain how he is connected to this please
Noam Chomsky dismissed accounts of Cambodian genocide refugees from 1975-78
@@jasonotto9126 The bombings gave Pot and the Khmer Rouge raison d’etre and the nationalistic narrative to cast themselves as the fix for the situation. What happened afterward, obviously, is one of the most indiscriminately evil chapters in modern world history.
This channel is such a valuable resource - thank you for uploading all these classics
great video and very detailed
I don't know which country supported the Khmer Rouge before 1975 until the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. One question is that if the Khmer Rouge had not attacked Vietnam and killed villagers at the border so that Vietnam would have to fight back and destroy the Khmer Rouge, what would Cambodia be like now... but the problem is definitely, when Vietnam fought against the Khmer Rouge to protect itself and help Cambodia escape genocide. When he returned to Vietnam, he did not leave behind any scandals, something rarely seen in the world, proving his humanity and discipline of the Vietnamese army. One thing is clear: in the 19th century, Vietnam performed a miracle in preventing genocide in Cambodia just like in World War II, the Allies won victory to help the Jews escaped genocide.
North Vietnam supported the Khmer Rouge from 1970-73, while the US supported Lon Nol from 1970-75. And no, the Allies didn't win the victory to help Jews escape genocide. It was only Jews who helped fellow Jews.
honestly we cannot deny that involvement help us to get out of that darkest era, but the long complexcity of political agenda between Cambodia and Vietnamese are beyond the naked eyes of foreigner can see as we're Cambodian who can see it:
_if we looked at the earlier stage of this cool/hot war between USA vs Vietnam, it was Cambodia who acted as the catalyst to help North Vietnam (supported by Soviet Union/China) win over south Vietnam (Support by USA) in order to unify the country as it is nowaday...and that dragged us in this cool war between USA & Cambodia..., which lead USA help General Lon Nol to depose the Cambodian goverment running by King Sihanouk as the chief of state because Sihanouk helped North Vietnam to station their troops in the Cambodia's border , which help strategy's advantage of North Vietnam to fight and win over south Vietnam. (Sihanouk was betrayed & lost trust by his cabinet for helping North Vietnam)
[ additional info if you need to understand the story there] => And the Khmer rouge who fled to the forest (who was actually againt King Sihanouk policy) with communist ideology got their opportuniy to spread their ideology to Cambodia farmer in the countryside gaining popularity step by step (because lately gained support by Sihanouk as Sihanouk tought that Khmer Rouge would help him to gain back the power)...with the support from Sihanouk, Khmer Rouge was able to raise the troops quicky from the poor farmer in the country and able to fight toe to toe with General Lon Nol troops supported by USA. later USA betrayed General Long Nol and Prince Serimatak agreements by withdraw their drops back and let alone Lon Nol troops faced the Khmer Rouge. Unfortunately, General Lon Nol lost the war without USA support. Lately with new running goverment by Khmer Rouge Ideology (inspired by Mao Zedong's ideology), they put Sihanouk in the house arrest, migrate the city people to the country site, destroy money, factory, modern car anything related to western, kill educated people or previous goverment official as they thought those would be againt their ideology (Honestly I read documentary about their internal conflict of their head of Cabinet, but no one can win over Pol Pot's ideology/decision, which later Pol Pot Kill them for againing his ideology) [Pot Pot is head of Khmer Rouge] ....With their stupid ideology beyond words, people have to wear the same things, have no fucking right under their protection, doing only farming, irrigation, eat in the comminity (almost like animal because traditional farming cannot mass the production and have no enough food for the people)... People started dying because of lacking of foods specially childrens. With their lack of integrity and thought everyone in their goverment was secrety working for CIA or Vietnamese goverment, Pol Pot start the investigation and became paranoid with everyone under his wing, let to the mass killing of innocent people from Citizen, low ranking people to high ranking people...(and I thougth that there is the involvement of Vietnamese secret agent as well for the paranoid's scheme in order to destroy Pol Pot Regime too as Pol Pot did waged war againt Vietname in the border in order to get back all of the land lost in Cambodia Low Part of country by previous king for several generation...., Kampuchea Krom (Ho Chi Minch City nowadays)....
_Their help to Cambodia during 1979 also had hidden agenda, which is to take over country political benifits and Cambodia resource...as they knew that swellow Cambodia like Champa was the impossible task...So their strategy for the last 400 years is to swellow Cambodia step by step like the typhon swellow their pray like how they slowly swellowed Cambodia low part(Kampuchea Krom)...and they did it like K5 (ក៥) Project is to kill the man powers of Cambodia to cut the tree in the border to protect again the left over Khmer Rouge etc....
Thank you for your video ❤
I remember watching sandy galls’s reports from all over the world when I was growing up. A great journalist.
Remember when the entire world sat by and watched the genocide happen?
What a lot of commenters here love to omit is the fact that the Khmer Rouge was supported militarily by North Vietnam until 1973, and supported diplomatically by Vietnam until the Khmer Rouge attacked them in 1978. And it's also quite telling that a lot of the people bringing up American support for the Khmer Rouge omit the fact that the US supported the Khmer Republic from 1970 to 1975, and the US and China supported the Khmer Rouge during the 1980s
Preach on. The US and China supported the Khmer Rouge because Vietnam was USSR-backed. Things don't happen in vacuums
23:07 A Cambodian woman think about Vietnamese troops stationing in Cambodia
23:58 And she point out who is behind Khmer Rouge at that time
And the English donnie trying to instil division with assumptions rather than looking at the positives that have come about from this "occupation".
Thank you for those take your time to learn the history of my country even though I do not live through this but my parents live through it
Wow, this is some serious historical footage.
1998 I visited Pol Pot's brother in Kompong Thom and got the only photo of him. He said he didn't know that his brother was the head of the Khmer Rouge, but his neighbours told us that was BS, he didn't have to work in the fields during the 1970s, when millions died, He stayed at home and did nothing.
Without Vietnamese troops went in 1978, Combodia would have been a graveyard till today. And yes only Vietnam had the gut to help the neighbor that was in trouble. China did not
So Cambodians should never forget your courageous neighbor
China was in favour of pol pot.
I have went through this dark and terrifying era in Khmer history during my childhood . I have lost parents and half of my siblings to the regime. My concern is that human never learns and history will repeat at some point and some where. 😢
chính sách 3 mặt của campuchia , quên luôn ơn người giúp mình, trung quốc, mỹ sẽ làm cho đất nước này tự giết nhau thêm lần nữa
Try to not fall in the path of communism.
I never knew my grandparents from both sides of my family mother and father side . All because this monster pol pot. They were all murder by kids around 10 to 12 years old. That why i respect my mother because she was a teacher and she made it. Plus seeing your family get murder i can't explain how strong my mother is.. when she told me what had happened i swear you can make a movie from her life story.. having her own business and teaching. living a well-off life before The monster came and escaping a massacre seeing your whole family murdered living in a refugee camp for 4 years then coming to America and raising a family of 4 barley knowing any English. But still did it she was a really strong woman.
NB The current Prime Minister, Hun Sen, was part of that Vietnamese "oriental blitzkrieg" that took out the Khner Rouge after the Khner Rouge had invaded Vietnam. He had left the KR as a refugee to Vietnam before joining the Vietnamese military. Now, whenever western media refer to him they always call him "Ex Khmer Rouge" but NEVER mention he fled them and risked his life to fight them and take down their government.
(Why? Because his government refuses to be a vassal of the US and wants friendly relations with China).
you want to explain how Cambodia's biggest export market is the USA ?.. how Cambodia is no more than a province of China.. the "pig butchering" Chinese Mafia run scam centers in Cambodia. And what happens when the bill from China becomes due - take a good look at what Laos is living through now and it is going to get a lot worse.. oh, you want to explain why desperate Chinese are entering Cambodia illegally looking for work ?
oh, you want to tell me that Cambodia has "free" elections ? are you a propagandist ?
can you explain why there are huge numbers of Khmer?Americans... where are the Khmer/Chinese ???? and you missed the point that China supported Pol Pot... you are full of cheap propaganda..
Hunsen did not join Vietnamese army, he formed new Khmer army force for liberating Cambodia with support from Vietnam government.
He was a high-ranking Khmer Rouge commander, probably directly involved in the genocide. Once the top KH lunatics began to turn on each other, he fled for his life and offered to serve the 'historic enemy' because he spotted a chance to regain power in Cambodia under them (exactly what happened).
He then proceeded to sell his country into vassalage to China (the China that invaded Vietnam to try to save its KH buddies), and give the middle finger to those who actually saved Cambodians (the Vietnamese)
He's a corrupt, authoritarian, but wily little r@t, just like his former KH buddies.
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Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
I’m suspicious of that camp director who is one of the rare survivors that was kept alive due to his ability to keep the machinery running. He freely admitted to assisting in the execution of the torture implements! If there was a Nuremberg style court hearing on war crimes there, they should thoroughly question this guy’s participation in those brutal activities! He seems very sus and is, at the least, complicit with those crimes, even if it is involuntary! He should not just get a pass and walk around like, “oh well, back to normal…!”
The Chief interrogator/torturer at Tuol Sleng returned to his village and lived out his days as a totally free man, even after everyone knew what he had done. You can even find videos of Western journalists tracking him down years later (he hides in his family hut, peering out at them from a safe distance)
As with many of the worst offenders, he was protected by the fear that if the new authorities 'reached too far down', they might stir up a new Khmer Rouge reaction all over again.
Only a few of the very top offenders were ever held accountable, and only 'sort of' (mostly, they died of natural causes in captivity)
this was normal. The only justice administered was by prisoners and forced laborers when the KR were overthrown. see the famous book on it and how in a couple of instances the freed prisoners bashed in the heads of their torturers with hammers. sadly, Cambodia and KR were too “valuable” to larger powers and there were little consequences for the KR. Instead of the typical rallying cry for justice of “so it never happens again”, there was just a lot of political posturing and. collective “never-mind. nothing to see here.”
the cinematography is so good
The Vietnamese army defeated the genocidal regime in Cambodia, Vietnamese farmers are the world's leading rice producers. Vietnam is not rich but it is the most generous and friendly country in the world.
And yet North Vietnam supported the Khmer Rouge from 1970 until 1973, and diplomatically supported by Communist Vietnam until 1978, when the Khmer Rouge attacked their borders
Typical oversimplification. Vietnam only took out the Khmer Rouge because of border disputes.
Cambodians don’t like Vietnam because they feel Vietnam took their land, like the Mekong Delta, a long time ago. Even though Vietnam stopped the Khmer Rouge, many think they stayed too long and tried to control Cambodia.
@@vath5150 quân đội campuchia yếu kém, không kỉ luật, súng nổ là chạy, liệu VN rút quân quân của hunsen có chống nổi polpot ko?
@@Thunderchild-gz4gc It's your own thinking, and not true.
Sandy gall was a brilliant reporter very BBC like but worked for ITN which was different from the beeb news..he had a reassuring voice .
Rouge was NO leader he was a murderer of the Killing Fields. Cambodians suffered greatly under his power! He will get his punishment on judgment day from almighty God in Christ!! ✅
The Cambodians should be a model on how to deal with such terrible atrocities. So many other countries would still be in shambles if they had gone thru the same horrors. Much love for Cambodia!
quân của husen đánh đâu thua đó .vô kỉ luật, nếu ko có việt nam giúp thì làm được gì
Now I wonder how Cambodians thank Vietnam ending the genocide. Not sure though if its intentional. Love this summary of old reports, I am not even born during that time.
Not totally. They turn their back to Vietnam and smile at China. They worship four-facet god: Bayon.
Amazing video . 😮. Hope its never lost and remain as part of the campuchean historical archives
Just as many vehicles and guns left behind in Afghanistan as Vietnam.
I have my doubts on that. The South Vietnamese military was 3x the size of the Afghan military.
@AlexaRobin21 and what's that have to do with the amount of equipment WE left behind? Afghanistan is 3x in size then south Vietnam..........not to mention they captured stuff from dead bodies just as the vc did.
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After the Vietnam civil war they had to deal with this too. A little wild that vietnam had to fight back to back wars.
Such a painful part of history.
thank you so much for the people who risk their life investigate and documentary this dark side of our nation. i really appreciate it so much.
Chomsky was very very wrong about Cambodia.
Nice cope. The United States government funded and protected the Khmer rouge. Chomsky never denied any of these atrocities, he only questioned the media's false narratives.
In what way?
@@DrSpooglemonhe praised the KR.
@@system1912 Literally never happened.
He could have been argued as somewhat…skeptical of the coverage. Not believing in news coverage of atrocities committed by (until their overthrow) US enemies can be somewhat understood, given how paid for the media is.
Sandy is 97 years old this year, folks! He was in the street of Saigon, VN on the fall of Saigon as the NVAs were rolling into the city on April 30, 1975.
I visited Choeung Ek in 2008. When you walk down the paths around the mass graves, you can see the bones coming up through the dirt.
People would pick them up and deposit them next to the graves.
thank you, In 1980 it started to dawn on me that maybe Vietnam was on the side of honor and human dignity and not war mongering
hang chúc nghìn thanh niên VN đứng lên tuyến đầu đã hy sinh, lính hunsen chỉ phía sau, có súng nổ là họ chạy, chúng tôi không thèm lấy 1 mét đất nào của campuchia
The US, China, Britain and Thailand supported and supplied Khmer Rough with weapons and training. Invading Vietnam and committing horrific crimes. My father and uncle were part of the volunteer army to liberate Cambodia. My father's older brother and 2 of his cousins lost their lives defending our country against China's invasion from the North.
Looking at big picture, those countries may supported Khmer Rouge for against communism from Vietnam, backed by Soviet!! It's kind of proxy war during the Cold War !! But in detail, what Pol Pot and the gangs did genocide to their own people, you can't really blame other countries, but Pol Pot's extreme insanity!!
My uncle was an american soldier at the end of the Vietnam war. He was sent into Cambodia afterwards. It was hell on earth, people dying from no food and the dead everywhere.
And people still actually believe that communism is good .
The socialists that watch this wouldn’t dare to try and debunk this video and all they will say is; “this isn’t actual socialism” lol.
The actual communist defeated them after defeating America
Khmer rouge and Mao Zedong carried out stupidism not communism. Communism established by Karl Marx and Engels and developed by Lenin based on industrial workers revolution, Mao and Pol pot did their stupidism base on illiterate people.
@@echohunter4199 It's not. It's communism. The two aren't the same. Much of the western world is 'socialist' by US terms. Communism is an utter failure though, even if you someone ignore things like this.
And the Americans, the British, support this "communism," so are they good?
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I had the absolute pleasure of meeting this man when I visited S21 and the killing fields in Cambodia back in 2018, it's incredible to see him here as he was a frail old man when I met him.
After World War II, Cambodian people had experienced the greatest tragedy in the world. Almost one third of Cambodian people lost their lives in gruesome circumstances. But when Pol Pot gained control of Cambodia, Japanese left-wing politicians, scholars and mass media shamelessly praised this and insisted the superiority of socialism over capitalism. Since genocide in Cambodia came to light, they have been keeping silent as if such tragedy had never taken place.
và họ đổ lỗi cho Việt nam
@@duynv89 Generally speaking, neighboring countries tend to be at odds each other.
i was there recently and i loved it...beautiful people and all characters.
So they essentially underestimated the Vietnamese army and should not have attacked the border post. Is that what happened? Am I sort of getting it right. Does anyone know?
trung quốc xúi dục, liên hiệp quốc làm ngơ
Lived in Phnom Penh for 6 months. The descendants of those who lived through the regime have also been affected. Was having a beer outside a corner shop and a man in his 20's started talking to me and he had some kind of nervous twitch, perhaps inherited ptsd.
You are right, as a Cambodian I see the same, many young people have this weird nervous complexity. many Cambodian don't know what it is, they just think we are super shy but it's not, it's the problem that hold the Cambodian youth potential. I myself been having this same thing since very young age. It's really hard.
He's on meth
It's widespread there
There's no such thing as 'inherited PTSD'
it was all the fault of the usa and the west. they destablized the region and then turned their backs of the mess.
my heart breaks when i read about that time in history.
Its crazy to think that back in 1975 the vietnamese help the khmer rouge to take power and help pol pot to make bloodiest regime of cambodia history...
when pol pot got to the power he fought vietnam in the 1979 because he wanted some land from vietnam and that is why vietnam fought the khmer rouge. Im sure that if pol pot didn't want land from vietnam, vietnam would never attack the khmer rouge and save the cambodian people.
Trong Chiến tranh Việt Nam, Bắc Việt Nam đã hỗ trợ Khmer Đỏ trong huấn luyện và giúp họ lật đổ chính quyền Campuchia. Ban đầu, thủ lĩnh Khmer Đỏ là một người ủng hộ Việt Nam, nhưng sau khi Pol Pot lên nắm quyền, mọi thứ đã thay đổi. Pol Pot chỉ huy Khmer Đỏ tấn công các tỉnh biên giới ở Việt Nam và buộc VPA phải tấn công và tiêu diệt Khmer Đỏ nhưng họ cũng vô tình cứu người dân Campuchia khỏi nạn diệt chủng.
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During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam assisted the Khmer Rouge in training and helping them overthrow the Cambodian government. Initially, the Khmer Rouge leader was a supporter of Vietnam, but after Pol Pot came to power, things changed. Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge to attack the border provinces in Vietnam and forced the VPA to attack and destroy the Khmer Rouge, but they also inadvertently saved the Cambodian people from genocide.
During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam assisted the Khmer Rouge in training and helping them overthrow the Cambodian government. Initially, the Khmer Rouge leader was a supporter of Vietnam, but after Pol Pot came to power, things changed. Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge to attack the border provinces in Vietnam and forced the VPA to attack and destroy the Khmer Rouge, but they also inadvertently saved the Cambodian people from genocide.
The Vietnamese only supported the Khmer Rouge at the beginning when they were all fighting against the French. Back then the KR weren't a bunch of genocidal maniacs and there were two factions, Vietnamese and Chinese. Pol Pot was the leader of the Chinese faction and he had Chinese roots himself. With aggressive backing from China, he gradually purged all the cadres in the Vietnamese faction. By 1973, he had total control of the KR and turned them against Vietnam by attacking Vietnamese troops in Cambodia's jungle and robbing their supplies. So no, he had Chinese support, not Vietnam's.
@diehardcat So after the war against France, the Khmer Rouge was no longer friendly with Vietnam and turned to support China. Interesting information.
It's crazy to think that, because it didn't happen that way at all. It was the United Snakes of Amnesia (are you aCIA disinfo bot??) that supported Pol Pot. This is incontrovertible fact. Go troll elsewhere, Pentabot.
It's interesting to see a situation where a population actually appreciated an invading force.
3:45 why is bro smiling like it’s funny.
He's nervous. Probably not used to being taped.
Have you ever been on TV? Bright lights in your eyes, group of ppl watching you. He’s probably nervous
25:00 It's funny he said that. As a matter of fact, the government of Vietnam DID give up control of Cambodia, and the Mekong River DOES flow backwards sometimes. For several centuries, Cambodian kings have used the natural backflow of the river as a demonstration of their power, as they "order" the river to reverse course with annual spring tides.
Journalists have always been the worst people in the world to listen to.
22:53 Yep, Merican learned it the hard way
May of us would do harm if given permission. It's the lack of permission that keeps them civil.
Does Starmer carry a photo of Pol Pot in his pocket ?
Starmer literally lives rent free in your little gammon brains
No one helped Cambodia at that time but Vietnam did with a high cost of Vietnamese soldier lives, however, it was sad that all of Vietnam effort was misinterpreted.
Another beautiful example of a Socialist utopia.
😂😂😂😂
@Ffhjjkkkbdssrthb tell me when socialism did that?
Was it back in the late 1700s when trade unions started? You know decades before Marx was born?
Was it during the Roman times when roman citizens demanded days off and fewer hours of work?
Was it in Ukraine when socialist worked the people to deletion?
Or under Mao when the socialist id the same?
Pol pot?
I can go on.
I cant wait to hear when socialism was the main player in helping the working man(or as the leftist call them deplorables and garbage)
dont confuse social programs with socialism.
Socialism has caused more pain and suffering than the nutzis and facists combined, by whatever metric you care to use. but they gave us Highways so they should be given a slight break on all the vile things they did, maybe even thanked , right?
@Ffhjjkkkbdssrthb so not socialism as stated, but social programs. Programs like the Romans had, the Fascist had, the nutizis(are these the socialists u r talking about?). Here in the US we have social programs, programs that were uually private programs like Social Security, but that didnt happen because of socialists.
Socialists didnt do anything on their own, they jumped on ideas already being worked towards, aligning themself with groups already in power, and tried to take credit for anything that happened.
To have "social" in the name of a government type does not mean socialist.(unless we are talking about nations like N. Korea).
Socialism/marxism by any meteric used was worse than the facists and nutzis combined. It has caused more pain, misery, and destruction than any other political group.
The girl spoke truth. At that time .
Shocked Keir Starmer, didn't give Khmer Rouge, UK citizenship.
You actually pressed send after typing that. No moment of doubt entered your head? Not even a tiny bit?
He would have given the victims of torture citizenship though. He has a respect for human rights, unlike many of his detractors.
@@rafd3593 Noticed with his support of Rwandan Tutsi warlords.
@@rafd3593 personal favourite is Keir making it an election pledge to end arms sales to Saudi. How did that work-out now he's PM ??
It was actually Margaret Thatcher who gave the KR political, financial and military aid. Look it up. The tory government sent the SAS to teach the KR how to plant the landmines we sent them.
The way he calls people peasants is…upsetting to say the least.
Thanks communism.
Lol you mean communist Vietnam for stopping the khmer rouge?
Most successful communist country be like:
You mean the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, that ended this?
Or the US and its stooges in Thailand, who supported the KR after it was overthrown?
I've read that even khrmer back then was communism before communism
@R3TR0J4N it was a Monarchy before being a communist country.
Scary that the Western leftists supported the Red Khmers, after they had supported Stalin, then simply the Soviet Union, then Mao, etc. Today they support and represent...
Two million innocent people, one quarter of the population, died under Pot's communism. Some people in America want that here too.
Calling the KR socialist is like saying DPRK is a democracy. But can't blame you. The US still aided them until the 90s and sent them tons of weapons, even the UK helped train KR soldiers. Of course you bots gonna get brainwashed 😂
@@titmit6940except the US supported Lon Nol and the Khmer Republic from 1970 until 1975. Only in the 1980s did the US support the Khmer Rouge alongside Communist China
US funded Pol Pot along with China
25:02 The Mekong river flowing backwards must of been a quite a site in 1989.
Pol Pot's year zero....A nation unburdened by what has been. Sound familiar ?
And we said no
Sandy Gall was one of UK's greatest reporters. Being embedded with the mujiadeen during the Russian invasion being one of his highlights.
This is what happens when you vote any leftist ideals …American democrat, socialist, communist etc..
No.
@@CarlCoppinger go live in a commie country then
Fascinating country Cambodia,I visited in 2023,friendly people who went through hell in the 1970s.Sandy Gall,ITN legend
Kinda sounds like the kr might have been jewish....😅
No funny.
now thats an interesting (but sad) topic
So horrible. Then the guy in charge got off easy .
Place is still a pure hell in the stranglehold of the HUN family. Look around there, 1% of the people can drive a Bentley or Rolls Royce oh wow. And the kids of those ones go to university in UK or Aus. So nice. 99% of the rest of the country earns $250 a month.. nice place
When a dictator rakes the wheel this is the result paranoia that leads to mass deaths how many countries have been through this in Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia the list goes on and on.
Polpot received all kinds of support from the Western. Only Vietnamese risked their lives to stop the genocide and was called "the invaders".
0:24 🚨NO!! CPK were supplied U.S. weapons by the U.S. government as a U.S. Rebel Militia against Sihanouk and Lon Nol because they were firm about remaining neutral in the Vietnam War and refused to allow the U.S. to attack Viet Kong from the northern countryside of Cambodia. Similar to how we supplied weapons to rebel militias in Syria, or are during currently in Ukraine and Israel.
The historian Ben Kiernan has been widely criticised for his earlier work being very Pro Khmer Rouge. Like many left wing intellectuals, including those who had earlier admired Stalin and Mao, Kiernan only “changed sides” when it was all over and the evidence of the atrocities was overwhelming
WOW THE VIET TOOK OVER IN JUST 1 WEEK KUDOS TO THE VIETS.
It's false to accuse the Khmer Rouge of doing 'a great deal of damage' to the over 1000 year old Angkor Wat and of destroying 'thousands of statues of Buddha'. The narrator himself states at 18:25 that "it's (the damage) very hard to discover- Angkor Wat has no 'proper care and maintenance and no conservation program." The photographic evidence, such as it is, shows that the damage very likely occurred over the previous centuries. Unfortunately, this video is mostly Western propaganda and a poor resource to understand the real damage caused by the Khmer Rouge.
the museum is in PP NOT Kampu Chea
The United States supported the Khmer Rouge in several ways, including:
Aid - The US provided millions of dollars in aid to the Khmer Rouge, including to a coalition with Norodom Sihanouk. The US also provided $85 million to the Khmer Rouge between 1980 and 1986.
UN seat - The US voted to keep the Khmer Rouge-dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) in Cambodia's UN seat until 1993.
China - The US encouraged China to provide military support to the Khmer Rouge.
Diplomatic support- The US refused to recognize the new Cambodian government until 1993.
Many of our American family served in war there. None believed the war "winnable". My father 7th division Army in the korean war 50-53. Myself, Lebanon Special Weapons 81-84.
We must never forget. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I miss the twentieth century, when a Westerner could feel superior. That's all gone.
Very interesting but I had to stop watching because Temo is sponsoring it had enough of those ads it's driving me insane
I miss my grandparent
This tragedy still unsolved misery who's behind this killing fields ? Who's created Khmer rouge Pol Pot ? Is it the Viet Cong Ho- Chi Minh there ambitious to take Cambodia and Loas as once country call Indochina. They're already get Kampuchea Krom it South Vietnam in the past it's used to be Cambodia land the Stupid France ceded to King of Vietnam in 6/4/1949.
No. It was the initiative formed by the French colonialists. Go to read: "Going Indochinese" by Christopher Goscha (2012). Do not say what you don't know exactly and have no evidence!
Modern communists: Communism works! it was just never tried
Actual communism:
You know a ghost was moving that rope...
Just remember he died comfortably retired, of natural causes in his old age.
Pol pot died in peace but who knows with buddah
Where are the UN and the rest of civilation human had been in this time???
what was Pol Pots vision of future Cambodia ? did he care ? how long did he think the country could last as a medieval society ? he lived as a recluse in the countryside ....just a mad evil man ???