Cambodia | Khmer Rouge | TV Eye |1979

Respected Thames Television Journalist Julian Manyon travels to war torn Cambodia where a bloody war between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam.
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First Shown: 05/04/1979
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[@CanadianGirlInTheDominican]

I was lucky to be saved from the war. I was born Nov. 1974 and was found in a bombed village as one of two survivors. I was lucky to be adopted and made it to Canada. April 6 1975. (I was supposed to be on Operation Babylift but last min. Was taken off and put on a Canadian Airforce plane. God Bless the people of Cambodia and the survivors.)

[@hugoposada7713]

Bless you. What a tragedy.

[@angelspencer1668]

Thankful ❤

[@CatManTho]

I've been really interested in knowing more regarding firsthand account of the people that was directly affected by this society. Hope things have worked out well for you.

[@MatthewWilkinson-rc5qf]

As a Canadian, I'm saddened that you didn't say God Bless the Canadians who saved you.

[@KeoMap]

50 years old now is your age. Where do you live now?

[@007fx7]

Love to see Cambodia' growth. Peaceful for the whole world!!!!!!!!!! From Vietnam.

[@alexzhangdragonn3438]

vietnam caused all the trouble in Indochina, causing wars since the first indochina war to the second in the 1960s and to third in the 1970s.

[@Kamnaruun]

Vietnam is the cause of the war in Cambodia, do not want to fool▪︎ Vietnam is the founder and supporter of the Communist Party in Cambodia

[@tuantrinhdinh1826]

​@@alexzhangdragonn3438Hãy đến làng Ba Chúc Việt Nam để nhìn thấy hàng loạt xương người của người dân Việt Nam bị quân của Polpot sát hại. Đó là bằng chứng để quân đội Việt Nam phản công tiêu diệt Polpot.

[@leocuto525]

@@alexzhangdragonn3438

[@officialclizz123]

@@alexzhangdragonn3438not at all. khmer communist propaganda.

[@Thisisstupid427]

Back when journalists actually cared

[@Clazzette]

Reminds me of Sydney and his fellow journalists from the Killing Fields.

[@LilCrackuser]

@@davidmoore3959 exactly! real journalism is still out there, but you must find it, nowadays with advertising it will not be suggested to you sadly..

[@brianblueskye9715]

@@LilCrackuser Advertising has no influence or control over what is reported. It doesn’t work that way.

[@LilCrackuser]

@@brianblueskye9715 im talking about the media that is suggested advertising to low IQ people, I wasnt at all talking about reporting, but on that note if monsanto pays to advertise on fox for lets say 25 million dollars a year do you think fox is inclined to report on wrong doings? not rlly

[@brianblueskye9715]

@@LilCrackuser Ethically they should, and that’s on the editors. Again, the advertiser doesn’t have any influence on what is and isn’t reported. They’re free to pull their advertising. I’ve seen cases in newsrooms where they report on an advertiser’s wrong doings and the advertiser remains, because the advertiser still needs to generate business. There’s a fine line between advertising and editorial content.

[@tholomewplague125]

Wish we still have this type of journalism

[@rangergxi]

Journalism was terrible back then as well. Denialism was the norm with both journalists and academics. They were so opposed to the Vietnam war that they believed that this was just sensationalism.

[@Katie-mw7pd]

Vice is the only big modern news outlet with journalists who actually emerge themselves in the subject of their reporting. They’re hit or miss but occasionally put out amazing pieces.

[@jaytok7]

@@Katie-mw7pd vice is a very biased news outlet...all news outlet have some type of agenda or political view they are trying to push

[@hugoposada7713]

@@Katie-mw7pd Vice is now a sold-out lost cause.

[@revelationmd]

@@hugoposada7713 yeah sadly that post didn’t age well. I’m not sure where people are supposed to go for investigative journalism now.

[@HistoryHustle]

There are still a lot of anti-Vietnamese sentiments in Cambodia I found out. Vietnam occupied the country for over a decade. On the flipside, they ended Pol Pots genocidal regime.

[@longdangphi7765]

The Vietnamese volunteer army for a long time was suggested by the government of Hunsen because if the Vietnamese army pulled back then Polpot would surely come back and the killing would happen again. Some Cambodians still hate Vietnam for the Vietnamese army destroying their descendants, although learning as executioners, to them, murderers are still their love.

[@BlueRice]

@@longdangphi7765 its more than that. Its deep rooted beyond that era. Even during the refugees that escape to Thailand, thai was also killing them too. The u.s came to Thailand to get the refugees but those who heard thailand was killing them they didn't take the chance to get pick up by the u.s. you only see one side. The Cambodian since history always talk about Vietnam cave. They said Vietnam hide in big cave back then etc

[@walterthecat2145]

History hustle hi

[@SilentRain1992]

Polpot 's cambodia turn to china once, we saved their ass, and the whole world at that point supported polpot regime, and now cambodia doing it again

[@jemappllesphan6143]

@@longdangphi7765 Vietnamese violated Cambodia neutrality during Vietnam war (Ho Chi Minh trail) You forced the American bomb us forcing the citizens to revolt

[@person.X.]

Amazing footage. Those journalists taking a huge risk. The insouciance of those guides putting the pins in the grenades. Thank goodness that episode is over for Cambodia.

[@thidasamrith3690]

Thank for sharing this video.

[@ThienHoang-tr3dh]

Yeah but there was nothing compared to the Vietnamese soldiers :)

[@brianblueskye9715]

There was a risk, but journalists always make sure they know what they're going into and evaluate their own safety based on what they know. In this case, they were going with guides who were jumping the border and probably knew how to deal with the Khmer Rouge and may have encountered them before. That was during the war with the Vietnamese when the Khmer Rouge was struggling big time and it wasn't the same as when they had the camps going, and a lot of them (minus the head honcho who came back at the end) were obviously at a point where they felt the same as the refugees.

[@Jerry-Cam]

Watching this documentary just break my heart. Thanks to all crews.

[@dazblaze04]

@green&shadow did Vietnam not liberate you from your own people who are slaughtering you, so u rather be ruled by Khmer Rouge ? I never see the documentary of Vietnam raping and killing you guys, u should be thankful u have the life u have now because if they never invaded you would also probably be dead by the hand of the Khmer Rouge.

[@OUTLAW-2024]

It's amazing that this reporter didn't sink in the mud due to the weight of his balls, respect to him for heading into Cambodia during that horrible time to bring the truth out and expose the Khmer Rouge atrocities...he's one gutsy s.o.b..Those Thai guides too...

[@asiane]

Please God, do not let this history repeat :'( ... The worst ever!

[@Microbex]

Mao's famine, Russia's Holdemor, King Leopolds genocide, The Ottomans genocide of the Christians, and many more. History repeats it self over and over again. I don't think we will ever learn.

[@clawofeagleyeahyeah]

You will never understand raw sex power.

[@mariofec311]

Its happening in 2021. too , in west Papua . People in the future will think of it the same as any other genocide in history , but not until its too late

[@mariofec311]

@@clawofeagleyeahyeah :D say whatt

[@helbitkelbit1790]

It still happens in Africa to this day

[@finnmanproductions9240]

Excellent documentary. It must have been very risky meeting the Khmer Rouge.

[@ttestates1]

In the land of green where the people dressed in black Where the Old people lived in the New people were killed Where the Ancients adored the temples of Ankor With no money to spend with no pots or pans With no cars to drive just living to die. That is a poem I wrote in 1979 after my friend was executed by the Khmer Rouge after he and his small group tried to Assassinate Pol Pot. Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) tried to fit 1000 years of Marxism/Communism into 4 years. More Cambodians were exterminated per capita than the Jews of Europe, and he was allowed to live out the rest of his life protected by China 🇨🇳 with absolutely zero remorse or arrest. Never say, Never again, this happens every day somewhere in the world

[@David-og7di]

You have a friend who attempted to take out Pol Pot?

[@badddkattt]

This is very poignant. I had to research “no pots and pans.” Khmer Rouge wanted to (and did) destroy family and private activities; including family, private eating. 🥣 Pots, pans, utensils taken so that people would feed at commune feeding stations. Western socialists today share the ideology and want to replace private dining with communal kitchens, and the nuclear family with “community.” It’s all presented in very positive ways.

[@derrickkhut894]

I was about 2 years old when this unfolded..my parents went through hell to keep us alive. Till this day I still think the prince has everything to do with the Khmer Rouge invasion

[@chase.7780]

Sihanouk pretty much made the Khmer Rouges by forcing left wing intellectuals into hiding in the countryside through massive crackdowns, which made the rural nucleus for the extremists. his political repression also put the right wing into almost all of Cambodia's government offices, which made it easy for a lunatic like Lon Nol to come into power. basically, Sihanouk drew the battle lines for the Khmer Rouges' revolution and eventual takeover. admittedly, the US helped spark the fire through their support for Lon Nol and the massive bombing campaign Kissinger ordered to flush out the VC and NVA from Cambodia, but Sihanouk was also semi-responsible for that considering how he let the VC build bases in Eastern Cambodia to attack the ARVN despite supposedly being "neutral" in Vietnam's civil war. and he gave the Khmer Rouges free reign to do as they pleased by supporting them when he was deposed and when they came to power. really it's a bit of a stretch to push the narrative that the prince was the good guy in the disaster that was 1970's Cambodia, and that the CIA/USA was to blame for the huge tragedy caused by the Khmer Rouges. personally I'd say the governments of communist China, the US, Vietnam, and Sihanouk are all collectively responsible for creating the environment needed by Pol Pot to do what he did. and good to know you were able to make it out alive from that hellhole with your family.

[@davidstrelec2000]

@@chase.7780 Vietnam overthrew Pol pot who then was financed by the west and usa

[@saupin002]

Yet cambodians arent thankful to Vietnamese who liberated them from khmer rouge. Such rude behavior!! A nation not worth helping at all!!!

[@trantienfc3776]

​@@saupin002 không phải tất cả, ở Cambodia có nhiều phe phái, họ còn phe chủ nghĩa dân tộc cực đoan, muốn kiếm phiếu sự ủng hộ họ phải kích động thù hận

[@berrytastic6358]

@@saupin002 although that is true i dont think u should be so salty when they were in literal crisis

[@dbdiary24]

Could you please tell us more about the former English teacher? Where is he now?

[@shanehalpin7085]

This type of journalism is sadly lost

[@Avaricumstudios]

When Pol Pot told Mao Zedong of his plan on Agricultural reform, Mao Zedong warned him it would be a disaster (It seems he had learnt from the Chinese famine) but Pol Pot didn't listen

[@hoanghanguyen303]

Mao Trạch Đông chỉ cho polpot cách giết người và diệt chủng như lính Trung Quốc giết dân VietNam 1979 ở biên giới phía Bắc VietNam😎

[@Qsen123]

It seems like pol pot was past sympathizing for human life, him and mao both knew before that loads and loads of people will die bc they aren't stupid but they are evil and measure success of a nation in a perverted metrics

[@thihienmainguyen4314]

Whether we like it or not, geography, destiny, .... have made the fate of people in Cambodia - Laos - Vietnam into 1; that is, if any of those 3 countries is troubled, unstable, war-ravaged, ...., then the rest would go the same way: troubled, unstable, war-ravaged. # It's ONLY WHEN ALL THREE COUNTRIES are stable, peaceful, prosperous, then the people in those 3 countries could enjoy peace, stability and prosperity. # Thus, the people in those 3 countries must safeguard their peace, stable environment, prosperity TOGETHER, UNITED.

[@irenewong9227]

my father also a doctor too but Chinese even my father had save one American top soldier ' s life who was so sick at my home town and my father cook some Chinese medicine to him and drink was true story my father had told me but in 1977 my father got kill by killing feal he got kill in front of me and I never forgot my father last word asked killing feal y u killed me and hurt me I do nothing wrong and my father was crying I was crying too then killing feal took my father body away never found till now

[@yevonsama]

what? They Khmer Rough kill even Chinese in Cambodia?? I thought they let Chinese alone?

[@jameswells-uk6qu]

Irene Wong..how horrible..also the U.S. bombed Laos just to try out new kinds of 💣. Terrible loss of innocent life!. We are now, once again living in tumultuous times..many people protesting all over the world...the Bible explains this happening! Very sad😢

[@marinagreco4026]

@@yevonsama Yes: there were massacres of minorities by the Khmer Rouge: for example Vietnamese residents of Cambodia, especially those who lived in a village near the Vietnamese border were killed by the Khmer Rouge. There were also Chinese communities settled for decades or more in Cambodia, so long before the advent of the Chinese Communist government. These people were not Communist Chinese but descendants of Chinese who had settled in Cambodia for a long time, so I think that the Khmers did not consider them to be residents of the People's Republic of China. Some Chinese had even married Cambodians so there were also Sinocambodians. The Khmer Rouge distrusted these poor people because of their origins so they would have killed many.

[@AaAa-pf7tj]

​@@yevonsamaThey killed everyone.

[@BOSIBA]

I wonder if the English teacher still a live today? Where is he now?

[@donsomriversideguesthouse-43]

Also wondering about that. His English was very good also and I think he got a good education. He was probably hiding the fact he was educated and spoke English all of the time when he was under Khmer Rouge control...

[@kennethkuehnle9872]

@@donsomriversideguesthouse-43 Yep......he would have been almost instantly exterminated had he shown his talents to Khmer Rouge soldiers etc.

[@kennethkuehnle9872]

Question do you live in Laos by any chance?

[@donsomriversideguesthouse-43]

Very interesting and the guide, journalists, cameramen etc. had a lot of courage going in there. Excellent work. My mother-in-law told me about the many Khmer people (and Lao people in Cambodia) who came to the islands during the 1970s. Laos also just had the revolution but it was a much safer place for them than to be in Cambodia. I wonder if there is anything on the internet about that as well.

[@haiauhaiauhaiau]

Ashamed ... the Govts that recognised Khmer Rouge back then. My uncle told me how Thai & "many other Govts" supported the killing machine in Thai jungle at the border, and deepened the tragedy of Khmer People 10 more years. Ironically, those people always teach other of humanity. They didn't send relief to innocent Cambodians, they send it to Khmer Rouge in the jungle. They didn't admit that their support (for Khmer Rouge) itself forced our young men to stay for 10 years in Cambodia. Like many other men in this world, my uncle didn't want to endure the nightmare in Cambodia, he wanted to stay with my Grandma, of course. He told me that the local army was too inexperienced, and that they would abandon their position if there were no Vietnamese men there.

[@user-qq6rr2je4q]

"Tell the Cambodians we will be friends with them. They are murderous bastards but we won't let that stand in our way" _ message given by Henry Kissinger on behalf of the US government to the Thai foreign misister to give to the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime, while they were jenociding people. After the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge the US sanctioned Vietnam, urged the Chinese to support the Khmer Rouge rebels and the US itself funded and armed the Khmer Rouge rebels and for more than a decade voted yearly at the UN for the ousted Khmer Rouge to retain Cambodia's seat at the UN.

[@hoanghanguyen303]

👍❤️

[@canuck21]

Hitler was cruel, but he did not massacre his own people. The cruelty of Pol Pot makes absolute no sense.

[@missmcphee8859]

Commnism cares for no one. There is no loyalty to it's people, there is no God to them, there is no loyalty even to the country and its borders. It is only to the party. The party becomes everything. Terrible sinister idoeology

[@jaybot303functionerror4]

He did he murdered Jewish Germans, Disabled Children, Gay Germans & anyone deemed an enemy to the Nazi’s were sent to concentration Camps or executed particularly towards the end of ww2.

[@canuck21]

@@jaybot303functionerror4 No kidding genius. Of course Hitler didn't care about the undesirables which he didn't consider as worthy of being Germans. Especially the Jews. According to the Nazis, Jews are Semites which are much different from the Germans who they believed are Aryans. Are you mentally slow or just ignorant? I can't believe you used that stupid argument as if it contradicted anything I said. Pol Pot didn't care about his people one bit as he eliminated even the brightest of the Cambodian people. Let get this straight here. Hitler was evil but it's arguable that Pol Pot is even worse.

[@lilsnowdrop]

Agreed

[@EliasAbejo-jy3vy]

I kinda get what you are saying but German Jews of the Holocaust didn’t belong to Germany?

[@nanab0z0]

Sihanouk played his part in the tragedy, a major part.

[@harunsulaimann]

Actually Sihanouk is are the master mind of polpot, he is are the one responsible of the mass killing in Cambodia during polpot regime. Today polpot paid damage price done by prince sihanouk.

[@jeanvaljean2136]

I send all my love to the victims of this genocide. Currently I moved in Phnom Penh where I'm living a good standard of life and I know and every day i recall that I owe this to you all. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@David-og7di]

I would pass this by but......I think that you are from the US, super naive, & possibly light in your loafers. The misery of those killed by US bombing, the KR, & subsequent conflict, has done nothing to contribute to the ex-pat privileges or the drugs that you are presently enjoying. And you may as well save your love as that is useless to them. Do you understand this? Cambo is run by that pig Hun Sen mate. His dynastic ruling is not about seeing a good or hope for an improved standard of living for the locals. It is about croneyism, corruption, exploitation, & retaining power. A chunk of that place belongs to China now...but arguably that has been the case since the post colonial conflict. Jean Valjean indeed.....how old are you?

[@honour123]

Why do you call them victims of genocide. They were actually victims of that evil political system called communism, often branded today as socialism. It occured in China, Cuba and the former USSR too.

[@trantienfc3776]

Hy vọng Việt Nam với Cambodia luôn là người bạn tốt, hòa bình phát triển đến với chúng ta

[@null-0]

​@@trantienfc3776 Peace to Vietnam. :) - fellow Cambodian

[@mariekatherine5238]

These were real journalists. It took guts to cross into Cambodia in 1978-1979.

[@AaAa-pf7tj]

This is 1979.

[@menchantola8551]

During that time, the total population was just over 7 million, but in just one short period of Pol Pot-led rule, more than 3 million people were killed in the three years, seven months and 20 days under Pol Pot regime.

[@lilmane1070]

It was 1.7 to 2 million. Also, 3 years 8 months 20 days

[@glow1815]

You sound like you're just making up numbers. You should do your research. 1 and half to 2 million. NOT 3 million never of that.

[@aniballopez2719]

Ive heard estimates of a low of 1.5 million to a high of 3 million. The true number will never be known.

[@Karen-yr3fb]

@@lilmane1070 it wasn't it was well over 3 million

[@lilmane1070]

@@Karen-yr3fb you don’t know what you’re talking about. The 1.7-2 million is the accepted estimate with years of research to back it up, while your 3 million one is based on some comment you read online Edit: your “well over” 3 million one (even worse lol)

[@vvtv2318]

Why I don't see any " thank Vietnam " in list comments?

[@vantrinh9406]

Because the thank you made them feel inferior to their national pride. The Khmer even blamed all the blame on Vietnam. Very funny. History doesn't repeat itself, and Vietnam never dies for others

[@Kamnaruun]

Vietnam is the cause of the war in Cambodia, do not want to fool▪︎ Vietnam is the founder and supporter of the Communist Party in Cambodia

[@Brook.007]

They don't even say , " Thank you " to Thailand. Funny Combo.

[@badddkattt]

Perhaps because the Communist Vietnamese precipitated war in Cambodia by occupying and using Cambodia territory for its invasion of South Vietnam; and Communist Vietnam aided and advised the Communist Party of Kampuchea, the Khmer Rouge, in its revolution to take over Cambodia?

[@sknight2810]

Bc we know their intent and the history behind their aid…?

[@myagent21]

Let’s not forget that Sihanouk created the Khmer Rouge. He is their strong defender.

[@1968weedsmoke]

The United States is responsible for the KR coming to power.

[@eye-studioofficial5589]

Thank to Thailand for good heart for Cambodia during khmer rudge

[@vantrinh9406]

By nurturing, supporting and allowing Polpot shelter. Cambodians are an unbelievable people. Good luck next time

[@ActiveAussie2024]

The Thai government allowed China to send weapons through Thailand to the Khmer Rouge. Over one billion dollars worth. Tanks, RPG s, AK 47 s. China, Thailand, and the USA created the Khmer Rouge

[@leocuto525]

Thailand supports the Khmer Rouge, thank you for supporting this genocide. It's ridiculous

[@mattmolewski7475]

This kind of excursion into Democratic Kampuchea really could have only happened in 1979. Had those journalists gone in a year earlier, there would have been a high chance they would have been found by a Khmer Rouge patrol, taken to a prison camp, tortured, and unceremoniously killed. There are certainly ugly and violent regimes in the world today, but I don't think there's one that has this much of a callous disregard for human life (the worst ones today would probably keep you as a hostage, if nothing else). I personally can't imagine having the guts to try this even in 1979, so huge props to these journalists for taking us to the story at great risk to themselves.

[@AaAa-pf7tj]

Only one journalist-team had entered Cambodia during those yrs, in December '78.

[@kosan2875]

Im surprised that the Khmer rouge were willing to talk and not kill them

[@brianblueskye9715]

I think at that point they were tired and desperate. The ones who talked to them were probably trying to convey some sort of message to the outside world. The Vietnamese were destroying them at that point and it wasn't business as usual like it was in the camps.

[@ttestates1]

They liked talking to Western journalist, it gave the a place to spout their Propaganda

[@mattmolewski7475]

They were on the run at that point, their command structure had collapsed, and these groups were largely fending for themselves: Their priority was living to see another day.

[@irenewong9227]

I worked as animal no food no school no medicine will only waiting to diet I only 10 but I was lucky

[@seannolan1192]

All of my daughters great grandparents, Uncles and Aunts were killed for being doctors, lawyers, teachers and Buddhist Monks. They murdered approximately 60,000 Buddhist Monks. Luckily her grandparents made it through that hell.

[@derrickkhut9516]

Irene Wong .. I was only about 2 when all this took place. I will forever remember these horrific years

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@derrickkhut9516 im sorry for what those monsters did to you and how they took your life you could have had

[@derrickkhut9516]

RaptorFromThe6IX , living in starvation because of this guy.. I couldn’t imagine what my parents gone through to keep us alive, by giving up their foods to keep their children alive. I am not an American citizen and proud of it. I spend most of my life from birth til the age of 11 living in fear and killing. It effects me till this day in many ways. Of course PTSD. learning disability, malnutrition.. just one of few things kids needs at that young age. My parents and brothers would spend all day working in the field and left us little ones alone at home with no one to care for us. Evil, evil.. is what these people have in mind. Greed, corruption is what put this country the way it is.

[@បងក្រកំសត់]

the khmer rouge in that village are assigned to be there to stop the run away civilians like the who had his throat cut and managed to get to Thailand

[@detthachantra7984]

i am cambodian. i am so sad that i know a little about the events of my country that happened at that time. now what i want to know the most is who created and led khmer rouge to kill so many khmer people, and why vietnam invaded cambodia in 1970s. one more thing, i want to know why north vietnamese could use cambodia as their shelter when they fought with usa.

[@laloveisbad88]

War crimes aren't punished. They knew they would get away with it. I've only learned the FULL story recently. We learned all lies about the Vietnam war in school.

[@inquisitvem6723]

is there footage of any western journalist allowed into the city between 1975-1978....not in 1979.

[@inouelenhatduy]

when the vietnam and allied cambodian enter your capital there is nobody left it a ghost city only left + they not only kill cambodian but also vietnamese cambodian and even planing to attack vietnam ( which they did by raiding vietnam village near cambodia border and killing everyone , they just testing for they huge so call invasion with 79k troop along vietnam border like everyone say polpot is maniac guy he think 79k can defeat 500k or something like that in south vietnam at that time )

[@bayoutapes]

your an idiot

[@irtbmtind89]

There is footage shot by a Yugoslavian TV crew. I don't think it's on youtube though.

[@Goonercry]

Let's talk about who help Cambodia overcome Khmer rouge

[@David-st8te]

The translation, when the people speak ALL wrong. The translator JUST say what ever he wants.

[@AnaBasile]

So, could you translate for us the correctly speech?

[@annamariehewitt3173]

I went there in 1979 with The Canadian Medical Team under The Red Cross to give medical assistance to the refugees.....

[@donsomriversideguesthouse-43]

You must have seen horrible things. Very good that you went to help the people there. Did you go to other countries in the 'area' also?

[@annamariehewitt3173]

@@donsomriversideguesthouse-43 After my Tour of Duty was finished I went to Thailand Malaysia Singapore Hongkong and Hawaii...Take Care....

[@donsomriversideguesthouse-43]

@@annamariehewitt3173 Thanks for the answer. I hope you had a good time on that trip. Take care as well.

[@sonywest1007]

Thank you, Annamarie, for your service. God bless you.

[@csick11]

Quit lying. You weren't there

[@DRMICHAEL201]

My mom and her family escape this.

[@itzmiku9305]

DRMICHAEL201 huh? Maybe i forget that on the book can you show it pfp ?

[@Clazzette]

go make an r/askreddit thread and tell us about it.

[@helbitkelbit1790]

Your mom , and "her" family ?

[@keptarareach4810]

@@helbitkelbit1790 Makes sense to me. Her family as in her parents and siblings...etc...

[@Arena807]

Cambodia they don't like Vietnam interfering in this war and has created a wave of hatred towards Vietnam all over Cambodia, they say Vietnam liberated them and occupied this place but Vietnam only stayed to support the stable Cambodian government and possibly remnants. and many of Pol Pot's other forces could still return,

[@duykien4060]

Cambodian government has been under the control of China money. That's why.

[@zglg123]

The absolutely balls on these journalists. We absolutely still have journalists of this caliber- but there’s something incredible about how TRULY alone these ones were- Especially with the hindsight- imagine how atomically screwed they would be if captured.

[@tinfoilhat1619]

the stories my mom and grandma tell me are horrifying.

[@Прион]

Какие истории

[@TSUK213]

Pol pot was a mad man, Sihanuk said, but he was part of that mad man at the beginning because he was so eager to get his power back. At the end Pol pot out smarted him. I'm Cambodian living in the UK and I was 11 year old when Pol Pot came to power. That war had left permanent scars in me, I had lost my farther and so many families

[@philipphan261]

Right on brother! After his overthrow in Mar 1970, Prince Sihanouk incited the people to rise up against the Khmer Republic and go to the jungle to join the underground Khmer Rouge (KR) because they had promised that they would fight to bring him back to power. After defeated the Khmer Republic and taking over the country, the KR outsmarted him and kept him under house arrest after they no longer had any use for him. Almost all the new KR soldiers who had joined the KR after the over throw of the prince, when asked why they joined the KR, they cited Prince Sihanouk's call to join the KR was the reason they did. After the Vietnamese rid off the KR, the prince, who's still hanging on hope of ruling Cambodia one again, was willing to lend his name and legitimacy to the exiled KR government and continue representing Cambodia in the UN body. "Sihanouk was part of the mad man" through and through, not just in the beginning but even after being played by the KR. You can't under estimate a power hungry man's willingness to disregard reality and history.

[@TSUK213]

@@philipphan261 Hun Sen was also one of those who went into the jungle because of Sihanouk's called on the radio to rise up against Lun Nol's regime. The current monarchy in Cambodia is also a useless one !

[@philipphan261]

@@TSUK213 Yes, he was one of the countless peasants who believed Sihanouk was a god like figure because of Sihanouk's slick propaganda machine. However, Hun Sen was the sharpest tool in the shed. He saw the writing on the wall and did not wait to find out if his suspicion and fears were true. He joined some disillusioned KR commanders and made a run for Vietnam to escape a certain purge by the KR, no one is truly safe under the KR regime. The madman Pol Pot did not trust any of his comrades completely, so he continued to purge anyone who he deemed his enemy. Vietnam would not have intervened had it not for the KR's numerous provocations on the Cambodia Vietnam borders which had caused lost of Vietnamese lives and properties. It's a golden opportunity to settle the score with the KR once and for all when the KR defectors reached Vietnam. While we know that Vietnam's overthrow of the KR was not to save the Cambodian people from the KR; nevertheless, it's undeniable that its action had saved countless of Cambodian lives. Countless number of innocent people were saved from certain execution in the nick of time when the Vietnamese soldiers were on the the KR's tail. The history of Cambodia and its neighbors Thailand and Vietnam are complex and complicated. But when it comes down to it, the Khmer history tells us that generations of Khmer king would seek help from Thailand or Vietnam to help keep them in power or to return them to power when they fled Cambodia. Sihanouk fled to China, the KR's benefactor. Once in power, these selfish kings must repay the debts to their benefactors, fair and simple. Even today, a country will offer "help" to another country only when doing so would protect its interest or gain something in return. Vietnam was no different in that context. I'm a Khmer, and I would not hesitate for a moment to say "Thank you Vietnam for your invasion of my native country to save many of my compatriots' life from being executed by my native country's madman. I would not have been able to reunite with my family (KR's survivors) had it not been for the invasion."

[@thihienmainguyen4314]

Wish everyone view again the bloody and chaotic, hellish scenes everywhere in Cambodia's pre-1975, due to American bombing and overthrowing of Norodom Sihanouk (America's "side show"). Then view again the Pol Pot's years with deserted cities, forced march, execution fields, Tuol Sleng's photos of children, women and men, with their terrified eyes, waiting to be tortured and executed. # Then view the scenes of today's Cambodia BURSTING WITH LIFE. # Then pause a little and honestly, impartially ask: "Thanks to whom for this revival?"

[@manatee2500]

Noam Chomsky still has doubts about this?

[@mcmanustony]

no

[@rangergxi]

He keeps quiet about this.

[@canuck21]

What did he say about the subject?

[@NS-ve4ms]

Not a typical war or killing. The kind, that nearly wiped out its history, culture, old wisdom, ultimately its future to redevelop quickly.

[@KeoMap]

where do they live now? How old are they?

[@leonandrews7180]

I have been to Cambodia twice. There is a chance maybe that I and my Chinese wife may live there when I am older in retirement (if I can retire) on the coast. Cambodia to me is a place that is mainly either fishermen, rice farmers, herders and merchants. Most people are rural and lived a very simple life. As long as they were fed and clothed, had their crops and animals and a roof over their head, life is good. They are a simple people, not a stupid people, but a bucolic people who didn’t lack for much and most didn’t care for material wealth beyond what the land could give them. But we humans always seem to have this pathological need to control each other, so we have these larger nations, like China, Vietnam and Russia wanting to control this small country in any way possible. Then the scourge of Communism which demands absolute control of people for their own ends. So because of this, this peaceful, agricultural Buddhist country was thrusted into wars from all sides, and in comes the Khmer Rouge butchers supported by China to murder over two million of these people. Horrendous. Since we humans don’t know how to leave each other alone in the World, there will be more control and then eventually we will all destroy ourselves. And genocides will happen again. We are not more enlightened, just more advanced in ways to control and kill each other.

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

You make it sound so cool/cruel..Good luck to you sir.

[@lesangpro]

Wait, did you group Vietnam with China and Russia, wanting to take over smaller countries, despite being a small country itself? You're making Vietnamese sounds like a bad guy here. Last time I check, it's the Vietnamese people who freed the campuchia's from pol pot's genocide while everyone turn a blind eye on this . And of course they couldn't just leave right after doing so, much like how the America wouldn't leave Iraq after the war, because power vacuum would appear and they had to make sure another pol pot wouldn't appear again

[@nghiemduonghung9750]

@@lesangpro 1978, Vietnam kick Pol Pot out of Cambodia, but he didn't get captured so Khmer Rouge fled to the border regions of Thailand, and, with assistance from China, continue the fight for the next 10 years. Pol Pot died from heart attack and never get condemn, thanks to China and US influence in UN. The annual UN General Assembly resolutions from 1979-1990 always condemned Vietnamese occupation. www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hypocrisy-why-didnt-they-arrest-him-20-years-ago

[@SilentRain1992]

To be fair,polpot attacked vietnam first in 1975, massive killing without rules. Polpot actions is more about result of political change in Vietnam/China/Usa/USSR. vietnamese. We dont invade combodia for political issue, oil or gas or nature resource. We defend our people. You think polpot is crazy enough to invade in viet nam in 1976, we just litterally fight the worlds most poweful nations, with years of combat? Politic is always make war, and FYI, vietnam wars were never civil war.

[@niz2640]

the US also support Khmer Rouge cause of their humiliating loss in Vietnam

[@kikolmulz]

Wait I am confused who is the man being interviewed? at 0:06 Is he Pol Pot??

[@pedroalexandredillemburg3751]

That was the Cambodian prince

[@AaAa-pf7tj]

No. IDK who he is, but Pol Pot gave only two interviews in the time of this video, and NEVER to British.

[@eugeneodonnell4680]

It's Prince Sihanouk. Member of the royal family and politician. He was Cambodian leader in the 1950's and 60's until he was overthrown. later he was leader in the 1990's. He played all sides. Pol Pots enemy then later briefly had an alliance with him.

[@MichealN123]

No China no cry! No China no war

[@longdangphi7765]

that is true

[@tinhhoangvan9327]

No Kissinger too

[@hoanghanguyen303]

👍

[@AngkarYearZero]

This is amazing to see actual Khmer Rouge in Cambodia at the time. They were highly secretive. 17:23

[@nguyenhieu1687]

Many Cambodians say Vietnam invaded Cambodia. What is invasion? Invasion is taking territory, plundering resources, stealing land. What did Vietnam steal from Cambodia? Nothing. In contrast, Vietnam sacrificed a lot of soldiers and money to Cambodia to have the peace it is today.

[@jemappllesphan6143]

Ho Chi Minh trail. You violated Cambodia neutrality during Vietnam war, which helped Pol Pot got his power, also Viet cong supported Pol Pot during the Cambodian Civil war

[@Kamnaruun]

Vietnam is the cause of the war in Cambodia, do not want to fool▪︎ Vietnam is the founder and supporter of the Communist Party in Cambodia

[@user-qq6rr2je4q]

"Tell the Cambodians we will be friends with them. They are murderous bastards but we won't let that stand in our way" _ message given by Henry Kissinger on behalf of the US government to the Thai foreign misister to give to the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime, while they were jenociding people. After the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge the US sanctioned Vietnam, urged the Chinese to support the Khmer Rouge rebels and the US itself funded and armed the Khmer Rouge rebels and for more than a decade voted yearly at the UN for the ousted Khmer Rouge to retain Cambodia's seat at the UN.

[@cuongphamgia3540]

Everything you said was actually before pol pot became evil. And did the people who supported pol pot back then know that pol pot would become like that?

[@KingBoraBeats]

So this what our parents went through... they don't believe issues in their lives is related to ptsd instead they believe what happen to them is karma from their past life so they accept what happened.

[@lauramounir3660]

Hitler was a communist as a young man in Bavaria. We aren’t told that in school just like the history of communism isn’t taught. I suppose they don’t want us to know that Nazism was fascism and is one small step to the right of communism and that both come from far left.

[@AaAa-pf7tj]

Hitler was never communist, and the very important factor of both Nazism and Faschism is to be very right-wing

[@IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI]

Hitler never was a communist. Perhaps you are confusing him with Mussolini, although he was just a supporter of socialism for a short time, even then embracing policies contradictory to socialism and communism. Furthermore, fascism is the highest stage of capitalism and the furthest you could get away from leftism.

[@elgritton]

This is chilling. During this time the world is just discovering the major atrocities of Pol Pot

[@mysteriesuntold3393]

Great documentary very informative!

[@LKaramazov]

Excellent video!

[@shanehalpin7085]

The journey must of scary

[@joejoe809]

Good reporting ..

[@eiidii2328]

Giờ thì người cambodia lại tiếp tục muốn nội chiến , họ liên tục ra đường biểu tình ngài hunsen . Bản thân người dân cambodia thích nội chiến

[@GeorgeGr11]

sihanook says that Pol Pot was mad but he supported him in 1970-75

[@runbou3485]

អរគុណបង

[@thiennguyenxanh]

កម្ពុជាជំពាក់យោធាវៀតណាម kampouchea chompeak yothea vietneam

[@LoiLe-uh8rr]

Quá chuẩn và chính xác bạn ơi

[@Yodasgaming1316]

អាឆ្កែយួន

[@dkn193]

Vietnamese people use their lives, blood, and affection to help Cambodians, and not like the US they use money to help Cambodia's civil war.

[@dkn193]

Thank you, love from Vietnam kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIiZfGVurd6Ym8k

[@philipphan261]

Never saw this footage before, I was on edge the entire time watching it! There's no question this devoted journalist and his TV crew loved their profession on the verge of being insane. It's true hell on earth the victims and survivor of the murderous Khmer Rough had to live through. Those who were killed by the KR were considered "fortunate" for their suffering have ended, those who remained couldn't stop thinking when their turn would come in the night. Their experience was not unlike that of Holocaust survivors.

[@theabsurd9416]

The Khmer Rouge were not communist, at least not while Pol Pot was leading. When the Khmer Rouge were fighting the US-backed government, they were on the right side, so to speak, but after they began purges and mass-killings, they really went down hill. It is good that the Vietnamese invaded. They liberated Cambodia from these “...communists...”.

[@corettaha7855]

The Absurd they were always communists. You can read articles from the archives where they are openly discussed as such, sometimes celebrated for it, sometimes reviled for it. But they were communists right down the line

[@p.nguyen8136]

"iT wAs nOt rEaL cOmMuNiSm"

[@theabsurd9416]

Coretta Ha Maybe, but they were US-backed.

[@theabsurd9416]

Philipp Nguyễn My fuck. As you know, communists are SO fond of US support and loved Margret Thatcher (who also supported the Khmer Rouge).

[@calebharman7661]

@@p.nguyen8136 real communism isn’t authoritarian you fucking capitalist bootlicker

[@vathanapen8951]

I dont trust The King.

[@biocaster777]

He seemed to be a bit of a tyrant. But I think he's legue better than other options.

[@brianblueskye9715]

The Prime Minister is the one the world is wary of. Australia has objections to his leadership. He’s also been in power since 1985.

[@Cruzx.]

@@brianblueskye9715he’s literally a dictator now every election is corrupted

[@razareg0808]

I’m afraid this is going to resemble Afghanistan’s future...

[@bluetortilla]

We humans will never understand the insane and cruel things that we do, things that have nothing to do with preservation or survival, and I doubt we’ll ever be able to prevent them.

[@shanehalpin7085]

Fancy showing the faces of the guide's

[@lvrkayla]

my mom was born one year after this

[@HaoNguyen-nl3fz]

Then u must be very young

[@lvrkayla]

Luke Skywalker Vito Corleone yep

[@varzacwarin782]

So sad for those Khmers who died in that Stupid war , the Khmers suffered so much from the war they did not start...thanks to the UN and those who helped Khmer people.

[@3xorciist]

Actually the UN didn't helped at all instead they stood watching the country suffer.

[@keptarareach4810]

What's worst is that the US supports Pol Pot's seat in the UN just because they suffered a humiliating lost in the Vietnam War which they had no place in

[@nguyenhieu1687]

The United Nations is on the side of the Khmer Rouge, sir. Only Vietnamese hold your hand.

[@hoangxuan5430]

Thank the West and the capitalist countries, the UN is also a product of the US and its allies. We Vietnamese people were born after the war. If given the choice, we will never save you again. The ungrateful.

[@JustACommunist]

The UN didn't helped Cambodia, Instead they aided Khmer Rouge, also the Vietnamese is the one who saved Cambodians from the regime of Pol Pot

[@irenewong9227]

I only 10 years old

[@jameswells-uk6qu]

All communists are evil. But yet people fall for it..go figure!

[@powerslave7876]

But vietnamist communists saved this people...

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

Sheep wanna be led, no matter who the shepherd is.

[@jameswells-uk6qu]

@@jamaaldaynitelong8367 Unfortunately that is true and sad!

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

@@jameswells-uk6qu Our world is a beautiful yet fucked up place with beautiful and fucked up people....We are our worst enemy at times.

[@joshuacondell1686]

No all fascists are evil

[@carmenlumayog5755]

They were irresponsible and incompetent they doesn't know how to protect their country from harm!supposedly all Cambodians can fight all of their enemies to depend their rights of the sovereignty of their nation and they can ask help from France since it was colonised the whole country by France the problem were the political leaders has no unity at the time since the graft and corruption was going on inside the government officials,and the aggression of America had began.all Cambodians leader at that time,has lack of wisdom and knowledge how to settle down their problem in simple manner!

[@derrickkhut9516]

What the Khmer people did to us then still scar me till this day... corruption, greed.. I’m still holding grudges against these monsters.

[@tangmengtech566]

What did they do to you?

[@derrickkhut9516]

@@tangmengtech566 if you must that question.. then you must not live that life.. I don’t need to explain to you sir, your question is offensive.. read about the civil war during those time.. and you will get the answer

[@tangmengtech566]

No, read your own comment again. What did "the Khmer people" did to you?

[@derrickkhut9516]

@@tangmengtech566 I know what I wrote , if you can’t comprehend then it’s your problem.. I don’t need to answer anything to you.. go fuck yourselves.. you probably one of them that still alive

[@naritanaret]

@@derrickkhut9516 I think u are confused. Khmer is the people in Cambodia (Cambodian). Khmer Rouge is different. We are not monster, we are a victim of war and foreign intervention.

[@khonnysann8885]

He doesn’t saved his own people…,he flees away… he’s so selfish

[@longbao9375]

campuchia thank you the u s and /UNHCR / so much

[@mrrrith7473]

I'm Khmer or Cambodia

[@mrpeabodythethird]

See how they use the young with their inexperienced idealism....

[@มดแดง-ฃ3ข]

เราต้องเอาโครงการถนนเข้ากดดัน

[@TheCambodianHistoryGuy_English]

Nah, that is worser than hell. Cus' hell doesn't have innocent people...

[@hoanghai4964]

campuchia thanks you the / UNHCR / so much

[@duyloi409]

Vietnam sacrificed more than 100,000 soldiers to rescue the Cambodian people from the Pol Pot genocide, considered the most brutal and inhumane in human history. Vietnam has done what the United Nations and the world could not do and all distorted history that Vietnam invaded Cambodia If, after destroying the Pol Pot, Vietnam withdraws its troops, then the Pol Pot will return and everything will be much more dire. Humanity and the world owe Vietnam an apology The generation of Cambodians that still exists today owes Vietnam a debt of gratitude

[@AngkarYearZero]

Vietnam didn't invade Cambodia to free the Cambodians. The Khmer Rouge were attacking Vietnam pretty consistently at the point, killing Vietnamese civilians.

[@duyloi409]

@@AngkarYearZero Khmer Rouge pol pot forces are rebels with Chinese support who not only massacred Vietnamese people near the border with Cambodians but also brutally massacred all Cambodians. If it weren't for the Vietnamese army to destroy the Khmer Rouge pol pot, there would be no Cambodian people who would have survived until now. Cambodians are ungrateful people. They have denied this truth. That's why the Cambodian country to this day is only There are 17 million people and poverty with low education, that is the price to pay for ungrateful people and distorting the history of a bad country in terms of moral character. They will become debtors and will become slaves to China, who helps the Khmer Rouge kill their own people.

[@duyloi409]

lực lượng pol pot khơ me đỏ là phiến quân với sự hậu thuẫn của trung quốc chúng không chỉ tàn sát người dân Việt Nam khu vực gần biên giới với Cambodians mà còn tàn sát dã man tất cả người dân Cambodians nếu không có quân đội Việt Nam tiêu diệt pol pot Khmer đỏ sẽ không có hệ người Cambodians nào sống sót đến hiện tại người Cambodians là những kẻ vô ơn họ đã phủ nhận sự thật này đó là lý do đất nước Cambodians đến ngày nay chỉ có 17 triệu dân và nghèo đói với học thức thấp kém cái đó là giá phải trả của những kẻ vô ơn và xuyên tạc lịch sử một đất nước tồi tệ về nhân cách đạo đức họ sẽ trở thành con nợ và sẽ thành nô lệ cho trung quốc kẻ tiếp tay cho Khmer đỏ sát hại chính đồng bào của mình

[@duyloi409]

@@AngkarYearZero The Khmer Rouge were backed by China to massacre Cambodian people and kill Vietnamese civilians near the Cambodian border to cause war in the southern region of Vietnam. On the other hand, China has prepared its forces and launched a war to invade Northern Vietnam but was defeated by the Vietnamese people's army.

[@anhnamky6697]

cambodian thank you the / UNTAC 1992 / so much

[@Chhor47]

All of these tragedies come from we trust on one coward country

[@corettaha7855]

simon chhor the Cambodian people produced pol pot. So it was at least more complicated than that

[@jemappllesphan6143]

@@corettaha7855 why would Cambodian gave Pol Pot power when back then the country was stable? The stability of thr country drain down when the Vietnamese involved *cough* Vietnam trail

[@homelessEh]

anyone else expect count duckula to start playing?

[@narithchannelofficial9350]

និយាយច្រើនគ្មានប្រយោជន៍

[@tanchhay2850]

M

[@PaulMauser]

6:14 lol

[@ឳភ្នំពេញអើយ]

The destruction of modern khmer society was done by Norodom Sihanouk. As soon as the Khmer Rouge victory on April 17 1975, Sihanouk gave order to evacuated city populations. Sihanouk also gave order to kill Sisowat Sirik Matak while he was traped inside French Embassy. Sihanouk returned to Cambodia with heavily protected by bodyguards from North Korea because Sihanouk, the scumback did not trust Khmer security service. I never considered Sihanouk as King of Cambodia. He was in fact the play boy and the unprofessional movie star of Cambodia.

[@nickoleme]

Are you sure, they didn't lie and just use his name to get people to follow their order?

[@ophanimangel3143]

@@nickoleme Sihanouk helped Pol Pot rise into power because he thoroughly opposed Lon Nol’s government, even though he was himself a bad leader who even led with an authoritarian hand for years before he was deposed.

[@canuck21]

@@nickoleme Norodom Sihanouk is a 🤡.

[@JackyThai-ls8gw]

After watching, I realized that Pol Pot and the communist regime were very scary.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Cambodia was better under Lon Nol

[@derrickkhut9516]

Sir you are the reason why your people dies in millions. My parents separated from their children for life. I’m live in starvation for decades. You are the one that created the regimes

[@vitouvt1084]

Derrick Khut he is no polpot

[@derrickkhut9516]

Vitou VT you must be brainwashed.. don’t tell he is not, I was there.. I experienced it myself. He is the one that created Khmer Rouge.

[@vitouvt1084]

Pol pot is the one who created it

[@derrickkhut9516]

Vitou VT apparently you need to learn your history before you can speak.. please don’t reply to me if you don’t know all your facts..

[@zerbutterftw]

...who?

[@semengkim]

🇰🇭

[@HallyVee]

Keep in mind that this is effectively enemy propaganda. You're hearing about someone from their enemy.

[@helbitkelbit1790]

That's true....

[@irenequidachay3609]

Not Forrest, they call it a freaking jungle 🤣

[@sreylaekmaes6870]

La📆😷😷😷

[@dutchschultz3076]

I like how he said communist grenade. I don't think that the grenade cares who or what it kills.......

[@canuck21]

It simply means it was put there by the communists.

[@pania3952]

This documentation is a whole lie

[@tidakadaide]

why?

[@vitouvt1084]

Your life is a lie

[@pania3952]

Vitou VT 😂😂😂

[@yerlocalpeanutdealer795]

Are you fucking joking

[@youtubeconseilproduitutile3616]

A cause de sihanouk les khmers ont beaucoup souffert Il est mort de sa belle mort Même pas un mot d'excuse pour sont peuple

[@ชญาภาชัยวิวัฒน์]

Stupid leader destroys most.

[@ouahtwai1741]

The real khmai khmaos will rise 2019

[@Lucas_07-PL]

And ?