Pol Pot - The Khmer Rouge & the Killing Fields Documentary

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[@khimsomneang9552]

Yes sure really I am like your story show it look so good I am like because I like in suffer story for play the same my daddy group show that have torture guy the rendering of story and killing too

[@johnthorinthemelodyproject980]

Having just watched a documentary of Idi Amin a few days before watching this, it's fair to say that these men would never have been able to ascend the heights of evil they perptrated against their people without the, in some cases, the unwitting and sychophantic help of their people, in most cases and the help of foreign interests playing to their own agenda in the shadows. Was Pol Pot evil? Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Could he have killed 1-4 Cammbodians between 1975-79 on his own? Of course not. Our history is littered with the stories of innocent men and women dying under the yoke of evil men and their cold eyed ambition. But not one of these men in the past or now can prevail if the people around them stand up en masse and say non. Enablers and lick-spitters, political ambition and covert machination all will fall short in the face of a people prepared to make the hard decisions early on and say non. Without our help Pol Pot and Idi Amin and their many many contemporaries would have lived out their lives at best as farmers or second level bureaucrats in some dinghy office in the backstreets of nowhere. Which is where they really belong.

[@thaonguyen-gz8uq]

thanks alot from vietnamese. our sodiers thank for explaning why we have the war vietnam camdobia. pol pot is too cruel though my grandpa told to.

[@miraslovak2030]

@@khimsomneang9552 a

[@raymonddeflaviis2306]

I'm not buying your narrative that Pol Pot wasn't a committed communist. This is no small point. I doubt you are close enough to this topic-- do anything but regurgitate leftist views from the Academy, British or American. And I doubt Peter McGuire would agree with you. He's seen the archives first hand, and has gotten his feet wet, on the ground, in Cambodia.

[@michaelsinger4638]

The fact that he died a free man peacefully in bed is the ultimate injustice.

[@kaliskunkog2255]

You must not know why he was a free man. He eventually fought for America against the Vietnamese. Look it up. America gave him a seat at the U.N..

[@Erik-vp5bm]

And this is why I don't believe in karma.

[@abrockkalypse]

he did not die as a free man - he was convicted guilty and set under house-arrest..

[@nedmccarroll8462]

U get the history,

[@samuelstephen8147]

@@abrockkalypse By his own party.

[@auntbutton905]

In college I had a classmate in my writing class that was a refugee from Cambodia. He read his paper to the class. I remember him relating how he and his sister and his mother had to flee to the jungle. They were starving, and figured out what berries and seeds were hopefully safe to eat by watching the birds and what they ate. And after he got to the parr where, while searching the jungle for food he came to a clearing and looked down to find himself staring down into a massive and deep pit full of dead people. He was pretty sure his father was among the dead in that pit. There wasn't a dry eye in room. It was 30 years ago and it haunts me still.

[@small_fries7573]

😢😢😢😢😢 Life is unpredictable and possibly fragile... Have u thought about whether u go 2 heaven or hell after this life? Cuz life is short & fragile. Look at how many peeps die each day...but there's hope... It is alright to be concern or not know about what happens after this life. Fortunately there's a way to not suffer, not be in danger, not be poor, not get hurt, not have to work in vain, not have to feel any kind of negative vibe, and not to get tired anymore. Imagine you will be invincible, immortal, and holy with a new, upgraded body to the core! Imagine everyone around you will be the same as you. Isn't that a delightful thought? It's true you or anyone can have eternal life. All you got to do is to accept Jesus Christ 🙏 as your Savior! Once you do, He will let you into heaven during your day when you finally see Him! God does like you. You have to reach our to Him by prayers 🙏 ❤️ ♥️. Let Him know your issues 🙏 He is listening to you.

[@Acemechanicalservices]

Ironic, isn’t it? Most colleges in America are beginning for another pol pot moment. If anyone disagrees with that, you’re either ignorant or a liar.

[@axidhaus]

But that wasn’t real globalized technocrat communism

[@Richard_Cranium]

When I was fresh out of trade school. I apprenticed under a Master Machinist who had a brother that escaped pol pots evils by escaping into the forest. His brother eventually escaped the country, but unfortunately passed away shortly afterwards because of starvation and damage to his body from exposure, malnutrition, eating tree bark and other wild grasses and whatever he thought would be okay... but ultimately all that took its toll and the poor dude. Remembering him and others like him helps remind us that WE can never let evil prevail.

[@michaelalemke1423]

I'm married to a Cambodian refugee and what his family have been through is heartbreaking

[@JohnEllisLearningConsultant]

Thank you for mentioning that Vietnam put a stop to the murder of the population of Cambodia.

[@rrussell9731]

My wife said without the Vietnamese she would be dead. The funny thing is the KR would tell them the Vietnamese were rapists and murders, yet it was the Vietnamese that saved their lives.

[@stofosaurus]

The real liberators of Cambodia were Vietnam while the rest of the world just stood by and did nothing even when they had learned of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. And Vietnam did this while licking it's wounds after winning the war against western imperialism AND invasion from the Chinese to the north later on. Vietnam is a true powerhouse 🇻🇳 Absolutely astonishing.

[@justinbowers2749]

And if we did do some thing, we would be instantly called imperialists

[@joserodriguez-jh5vp]

@stofosaurus . Lol the ideology of Pol Pot is alive and well in you! I bet you live in an affluent middle class neighborhood in the US or UK. Lol

[@justinbowers2749]

I hate Pol Pot and I hate his political views, what I’m saying is that if we had intervened, the history books would just decry us as evil imperialists and glorify Pol Pot as some sort of liberator

[@joecurran2811]

​@@joserodriguez-jh5vpJustin is correct though.

[@chanamcaosutv6124]

Thank you. Because ,you was tak the true story about viết nam

[@MC-vp4eg]

Thank you for the insightful documentary. My dad lived through the killing fields executions in Battambang. He witnessed his 2 older brothers beheadings because they couldn’t speak Khmer well enough due to being ethnically Chinese/Vietnamese. The rest of the family spoke fluent Khmer so their lives were spared. Both of his parents died of disease from bad drinking water. He was separated from his siblings due to the war, ending up on the streets at the age of 13. He was, unfortunately, one of the many children who would become child laborers by the Khmer Rouge. Dad would constantly remind me, when I was a kid, of what he went through. He worked for about 4 years, 20 hour days farming and piling bodies/ throwing bodies in ditches. He said that bodies were piled high everywhere that it was impossible to count. He told me that a 10 pound rice bag had to feed his camp of 200 people. He had to eat fish and frog tadpole, snakes, and other undesirable things to survive. Among other stories he told me, he had a gun pointed to his head while relieving himself to ensure that he wouldn’t run away. He tried escaping twice, first time to the mountains to the border of Thailand, to which many were turned away. The second time, he was able to enter Thailand and was rescued by the Red Cross. He told me when he boarded the plane that he was wearing rice bags as clothing. Out of his entire family, he was the only one who sent in the US, the others went to Australia. He did very well for himself despite only having the clothes on his back. Because of his work ethic and survival instincts, he worked his way up in the restaurant industry to becoming an executive chef and managed several restaurants and eventually owning a few restaurants. Every year in August he celebrates his refuge to the US, paying respects to the country that brought him in, giving him an opportunity to become successful and have a better life, and expressing his thankfulness to President Jimmy Carter for taking in refugees from his country.

[@somalyith4712]

Trust me I understand how u feel..when we had refuge we had to work our buts off..I started working since I was 8..sewing

[@rosemaryus-ct6151]

i am sorry ur father and so many other people lived under such terrible conditions, and glad that ur father was so successful in the united states.

[@littleme3597]

@@rosemaryus-ct6151 And now, ANTIFA/BLM....want to destroy America and have the same dictatorship.

[@RacistCeilingBird]

Its amazing how resilient and strong a person's mind can be. While now days, people will cry if they accidentally leave their phone at home when they go out.

[@michaelvanorden502]

Thank you for sharing this story with us

[@BullyMaguiretheForbiddenOne]

Khmer male here, my mother and grandmother were survivors of the regime. Unbelievably, i was born April 15th, 1998, the day of his death. My mother sees me as a blessing and new era to her life after i was born. She was a child during the regime, and had to eat tarantulas and snakes along with her mother. We now live in America, and we have a nice home and she never wants to hear his name ever again.

[@saromom4558]

Pol Pot was trying to help his country by doing what he believe possible , but he was walking on Viet-Nam trap. It the Viet-Nam that started the communists party and the real big boss.Logically , why Pol Pot kill his own kind. You know who is the real monster. The Viet-Nam government do it. They exterminates Khmer nation to steal our lane. Easy to understand , who got all the benefits when all Khmer die. I don't have any power, just hope there are Karma, that Viet-Nam nation will face what they do to us and get exterminate. Hope people that buy Viet-Nam product, eat Viet-Nam food, will share their sin and go to hell as well.

[@DeusExAngelo]

We share a birthday, and I am glad you refuge. I can't imagine what living through such horror would be like.

[@Crow-jg4sj]

I think it happened in Laos too. Had a coworker from there

[@Yesica1993]

How horrifying that America is now embracing the same communism that destroyed your family and country.

[@yourwifesboyfriend6081]

Welcome back, Pol Pot.

[@kzamno1]

To save bullets, the Khmer Rouge used a hoe to strike each person's head. They were truly despicable when they dyed Phnom Penh with blood. But when Vietnam defeated these villains, the whole world turned against Vietnam. It was so unfair to us.

[@DogmadawgMAMR]

Vietnam is one of the greatest sins the western world commited

[@anahitaazadeh3449]

Vietnamese people are super chill. One of the only countries (alongside Mexico) whose lack of development can truly entirely be blamed on the United States government.

[@zachj6601]

@@anahitaazadeh3449that’s nonsense.

[@xEvan117x]

@@anahitaazadeh3449keep smokin meths

[@M8Military]

​@@anahitaazadeh3449so cartel members are actually US federal govt employees? Lol

[@ngogeorge6868]

In fact, in the time our Vietnamese soldiers tried to save the Cambodian from this guy, the world just said we are the invaders, the bad guys, even Pol Pot was cruel and tried to repeat the crime of Hitler.

[@asiandraven5240]

yes it is the sad true of the world, some will understand us and many won't. Không có gì phải rầu cả, thứ quan trọng trên hết là mọi người dân Việt Nam đều được sống như nguyện vọng của Bác Hồ là được rồi bro ạ, mặc kệ lời ra tiếng vào đi cứ làm những thứ mà mình cần làm

[@xpokerxpoker8490]

Vietnamese never intention to save Cambodia but to install your puppet instead. Read more history about your people invading champa and Khmer krom

[@getmy_rank9448]

That’s true, whenever I said “thank to the Vietnamese that save us” my class mate replied “The UN doesn’t recognise that Vietnam save us” which confuses me because even if they are burtal at least they isn’t like the red khmer

[@stefanthorpenberg887]

Not the whole world; Indira Gandhi and Olof Palme supported Vietnam at the time, I also did it.

[@Monkey-tr7sd]

Funnily enough Indira Gandhi liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan and even they see us as invaders/aggressors😂​@@stefanthorpenberg887

[@paulc2548]

This evil man was the worst kind in human history... in a short five years, he killed 25% of the population of Cambodia at the time. Those who lived through Pol Pot regime will never forget or forgive this evil for what he had done to the country. May his soul rot in hell.

[@MrMeetmeagain]

Vietnam and china also killed Cambodian. It is easy to blame those who is dead and not in power.

[@paulc2548]

@@MrMeetmeagain You aren't kidding, are you? Vietnam 'might' kill Cambodians as a they invaded Cambodia as a result of war. Most wars, killed civilians as we know it. But I doubt the Vietnamese army killed Cambodian indiscriminately like what was done by the Pol Pot regime. As for China, I blamed the Chinese government for supporting the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge and turned a blind eyes to the atrocious murdering of Khmers. However, I doubt that the Chinese actually came to Cambodia to kill Khmers unless you can present proof that Chinese army/peoples killed Khmers in Cambodia during that time. I am not blaming the dead man, I know it is fact, and I lived it.

[@MrMeetmeagain]

@@paulc2548 the main person behind this is western imperialists

[@jasondiggs6740]

@@MrMeetmeagain 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@josh-pe5fe]

@@MrMeetmeagain communists are always innocent little lambs.

[@mikekennedy4572]

I was shocked to discover a few years ago that the hair-cutter at the shop I frequented escaped with her sister from one of the Khmer Rouge jungle prison camps where many died. One day, we were making small talk as she cut my hair and I asked where she was originally from, and she said Cambodia. She then told a story how they left during Pol Pot's rule, and that she and her sister escaped to save their lives. At first, I thought she was kidding, but then I saw her sad eyes and the emotion in her voice. They escaped at night preferring to die trying rather than wait for an almost certain eventual death in the camp. The two hiked quietly for many days through the jungle until they reached Thailand and safety. From there, they eventually were allowed to resettle in the US. She and her sister are brave. Sadly, many in their family disappeared during that bad time.

[@slammerlo510]

Mike Kennedy@ 2 women escape through the jungle to Thailand via US i not just brave but don't have words to describe them. Their destiny was granted by God. Their destiny was set up by him and not that ahole dictator. Today some mean dictator still around trying to plow down others for their own gains. God bless my America, we don't have to worry but live in harmony. The world look and learn from us Americans, and we invent to make the world a better place. So others can steal our technology to get rich to think they can rule the world. No one can rule the inventors, we are born free and will die free because we not communist. Haha

[@vietle1479]

western media lie for decades :) It's supprising me in a huge when I see many people like you on every social networks that...don't know about Khmer Rogue until today...the 21st century. You must visit Cambodia, visit their museum about killing field or atleast, watch the movie name "First, they killed my father"

[@InDisskyS131]

Why would you think anyone would joke about that?

[@Flamsterette]

@@WildBillCox13 This is a KZbin comment section, not a forum.

[@chewbaccassecretlovechild2607]

I love the dude . I have his poster on my wall ...He is a legend in my house. I teach me kids what is going down in the hood and I model myself on the legend PP . How would he deal with the situation. I even vision him In my mind just to feel his presence 😊

[@tdotvy4579]

My parents are refugees from Cambodia. I live comfortably in the US scrolling through Instagram while drinking my Starbucks arguing over American politics with random bots on social media. What a time to be alive.

[@CB_ChaosLove]

truly astonishing, what we humans have done here on earth

[@IristheButterfly]

Truly, blessings

[@Luke-hs3bf]

As a long time student of Asian history. This relatively brief documentary was very well put together. Thank you for putting this info out on utube. People must not forget these atrocities nor the suffering of so many innocent people at the hands of these monsters.

[@ex8280]

People only remember the atrocities, but the cause is always distorted.

[@user-fj4mo9xz1c]

When the cause becomes the atrocities, the cause has been killed too. The problem is always these damn high-functioning psychopaths. Everywhere in the world ​@ex8280

[@ex8280]

@@user-fj4mo9xz1c I'm Cambodian, and I never understood what led to the rise of Pol pot, or why my entire family left all their belongings to go to a labor camp, why some family lost everyone, and why our family was fortunate enough to not lose anyone. Still confusing. But as I got older and watching our country hop back and forth between countries to physically kill people half way around the world, it would make sense, that the communist feared capitalist as much as we feared them during the mcCarthy era, but the Chinese fear was more extreme as we went over there and killed over a million Vietnamese in Vietnam, and another million in Korea. Pol pot went into Cambodia to rid the country of all foreign influence. From entertainers, to doctors, everyone that had a lick of interest in the west was executed. Fortunately our family were all farmers and peasants. Pol pot like communism of those days were more sympathetic to the working class. These days, I'm beginning to think genocide or the word evil, is just a quick way of ending a discussion that will lead to a bit more truths.

[@garykenyon3908]

Sad but true, people do forget if they even know. That’s all the more reason why our kids Must be taught their heritage and history. We are a nation of many migrants who came here legally, and they took an oath of allegiance to this, their new home - but we still can cherish and honor our old countries.

[@unbindingfloyd]

Never forget, he did not do these things alone. He was human supported by other people. The killing fields were ran by everyday people. Thats an important point to remember when looking back on dictators. How people came to do these things are just as important as who was at the head of government.

[@garam6555]

..this weird human need to follow obviously crazy people

[@milesinnz]

you need to undertake some study on psychology... the answers why people behave the way they do is clear (but "people" do not want to know, preferring to stick to their ignorant and delusional views about the world)... a good place to start is the famous Stanford Prison Experiment... I know those who knew Pol Pot personally, and you could not meet people with such compassion for other people.. sadly there are very few people who have the slightest idea of the basis of human behavior and have a desperate need to make up stories such as good and evil.. which really has a religious basis and all religions rely on delusion and story telling....

[@johnshaw8228]

The darkest Ron Paul, Yours is the most significant point in this entire thread. That’s right. It is what people are willing to do when given the chance and the opportunity and the power.

[@Chad_Thundernuts]

That's pretty much why I've slowly but surely become a misanthropist. You see countless stories like this all though out history. As a result I cannot trust or think highly of humans. People truly worthy of respect are few and far between. The stupidity and savagery of mankind knows no bounds.

[@milesinnz]

@@Chad_Thundernuts and how many ex-Khmer Rouge people do you know ???.. although most are elderly now... - or do you also include yourself in your definition of misanthropist ?

[@nickim6571]

"He could be charming when he wanted to." Sounds like nearly every other psychopathic killer.

[@hilman94]

And made his wife's mental condition detoriating until the point she became schizhophrenic... damn, he ought to abuse her either verbally or physically, or both...

[@davidkirker8937]

@@condorX2 none of that justifies Pols genocidal tactics.

[@johnshaw8228]

N M, Ted Bundy could be charming when he wanted to be. Lots of people can be friendly, charming, witty, intelligent. The main thing is the structure of humanity. Once you understand that, you understand how superficial and meaningless personality traits can be.

[@johnshaw8228]

You haul point the finger at one man. I doubt very seriously he killed 1 million people. Other people did that. Stand in front of the mirror and point the finger at yourself. If your government ordered you to go to a foreign country and slaughter innocent people and they trained you for it in the military, you would probably do it.

[@justmyster1976]

Yeah, like Obama.

[@Reelworthy]

This blows my mind… that this is 100% absent from my education in the 80’s & 90’s. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT

[@heylow1505]

my heart till sinking from sadness hearing this and even reading the story of civilians comments. I can’t believe that my grandfather who is a Vietnam soldier went thru wars like this. I just hope those who can will live the life to the fullest, and those who can’t will be peacefully be asleep away from the misery ❤😔 my greatest condolences to all who suffered.

[@jonp3890]

You have a good heart, bless you.

[@romelnegut2005]

To say that Pol Pot was a lunatic is an understatement.

[@williamchick6649]

Calling Pol Pot A lunatic is an insult to lunatics.

[@romelnegut2005]

@@williamchick6649 And that's why saying that is an understatement.

[@timphillips9954]

@@williamchick6649 So why did the west support him at the UN?

[@williamchick6649]

Yes that is a good question why did the west Supported a psychopathic maniac like Pol pot, But it would not have been the first time the west had done that, The answer is pretty straightforward, my enemies enemies is my best friend, the idea was that if we support him we could use him as pressure against China Vietnam and the Soviet union, it was Cold War politics At it’s best, but yes it has to be one of the West most shameful Decision. As for the UK one of the most disgusting decisions this country is ever made was to send the SAS to Thailand to trained The Khmer Rouge. But they again the west supported Saddam Hussein, We trained his army and we sold him equipment for his army we even sold in the chemicals to make the gas that he used on his people and the Iranians.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

@timphillips9954 when you say, "the west," you're not accurately describing the makeup of the UN. There are any number of despotoc nations who are menmers there. However, i wonder why the US didn't veto it.

[@c0un762]

My father was just 5 years old during the Khmer Rouge take over. He said, he was terrifled, seeing that one of his family member was gone, which was his sister. The reason why, was because, his sister was married to a weathly Police Officer and they found out about it, and she was killed. My dad, and his 3 other brother was suggling to survive during the Genocide. Evenaully, the civil war would end and at that time, he was still shock. Luckily, he was one of the few that return back to the capital with only one family member gone. He soon became a leading member of the Cambodian Ministry of Justice in Kandal and in around May or April 2021, my dad get to see one of the Khmer Rough leader, who was also sent on a trail was passed away infront of my father, the same person who ordered a Execution of my father sister. My dad was sad for his family but not for him. My dad would leave the hospital and talked to his daughter and sons about his passing. I am happy that I get to live in a Modern society of Cambodia. I have friends who their loves one would be on the wall of the people who got executed. May those who died as a innocent, would live in heaven and the family would be bless my the richest they lose. And for those who didn't see mercey in those eyes of the innocent Khmer people, shall die in the same condition as their so called "Brother 1" or "Bong ti muoy”

[@cudanmang_theog]

Cry urbanite

[@c0un762]

@@JohnGalt916 yes, that’s how my friend love one was executed because he was a teacher at a medical school

[@charliechurch5004]

@@JohnGalt916 ok u found a way to make me laugh 😆

[@charliechurch5004]

@@c0un762 I'm so sorry

[@khimsomneang9552]

Your farther so good .do you know my father he really getting so heart life for clearing family he is be actors in drama show on the stage play night time with other and my family and he more getting to be actor in story like suffer and they kill or torture

[@haroldpearson6025]

As a Brit I lived and worked in Cambodia from 1998 to 2018. I met a lovely Cambodian lady in 1999 and we were married on 2002. My wife had experienced the whole period of the Khmer Rouge, abandoned with 2 small children. I have been involved in raising and upbringing of these children. Both are now married with successful businesses in Cambodia. My wife and I are now settled in UK.

[@muscledavis5434]

A really good and informative documentation! Thank you

[@davanmani556]

I was in Cambodia at those Killing Fields museum. There were in-cased skulls. A tour guide showing the grounds and telling stories. One of the visitors asked the guide if he did any of these killings. He simply said, “I’m alive.”

[@Sralaineo-]

Still to these days...... many foreigners and some khmer people are blinded and Unaware of the REAL TRUTH Who are the REAL killers of khmer people..... .....The REAL killers are let loose by the EU and the American

[@plankark]

wow! That's so poignant.

[@schechter01]

That probably wasn't a question he wanted to hear--whether he's an innocent victim or not.

[@bruce0750]

He probably did some killing. If he refused orders, he would have been killed too.

[@myrnawashington9057]

What idiot would ask a question like that? It was probably someone try to be entertaining smh no respect for the guide.

[@ilove9799]

Thank you for the education of pol pot , I am a survivor 53 yrs old, mom ,dad passed away during those time. It's sad but I won't live or looking back but to look forward for a better life .

[@user-fj4mo9xz1c]

God bless you and your family. We are so happy you have cause safe future.

[@stevepalpatine2828]

This Pol Pot dude was kind of a dick huh? Glad you made it out.

[@stephenkahn7469]

I was born on January 25, 1944. I try not to think. As you can easily tell, no one has ever thought. Smother me before I succeed. May be in a billion times a billion years. OH NO!!!!!

[@karlburkhamer994]

I spent years working & vacationing in SE Asia and read quite a bit while there. This DOC shatters misconceptions, erroneous history. Very well done. Did NOT know UN recognized Khmer Rouge as legit government after Vietnam invaded. 🤬

[@ksmax6310]

and they do the same now acknowledging Hamas

[@karlburkhamer994]

@@ksmax6310 Am Yisrael Chai✡

[@bachhunghoang]

Oh boy, even in Vietnamese history book being used in school, they even hide the fact that the UN turned their back and called Vietnamese invaded Cambodia, the truth came out by mouth from generations to generations, and for myself, i'm gonna do the same with my childs, we can forgive, but never forget, tell them war stories that my late grandpa told me when i was a little kid.

[@trevoranderson1604]

I spent some time at the killing fields today in Cambodia. There are still bones and clothes coming up through the ground, being eroded by rain and sun. The row after row, room after room of photographs of the victims. And millions more lost and unknown. Each one a person with family, hopes and dreams. The school, which would have been built with the best of intentions, was turned into a slaughterhouse prison. Blood splatter still stains the high ceilings, walls and floor. Everyone in this country is deeply effected. Only 8 escaped the prison when the Vietnamese came. Only 2 are alive today. They return to the prison each day to share their story, in the form a small book available for purchase. One kept alive because he was a mechanic and could fix the typewriters. The other, a skilled painter. It was truly a surreal experience.

[@brendanngin9939]

I like how you ended it saying there’s no rationalization for what can be made of it . It really doesn’t make any sense why he made his own people suffer so much .

[@Monatio79]

It is impossible to rationalize such horror and insanity. He never saw his people as human beings, but rather as a populace to be utilized for agricultural labor and irrigation projects. People were expected to sacrifice everything for "the greater good" of the development of their country. If people died of disease or starvation, so be it. A necessary sacrifice in the grand scheme of things. Traitors, real or imagined, had to be eliminated ruthlessly. Pol Pot envisioned a prosperous, self-sufficient Cambodia by 1990. As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

@@louisavondart9178 No, he instituded "Ankor", which is to erase Cambodia past, blaming all woes of everyone from before. They started a new calendar beginning at day one. This is typical of marxism. Stalin, Mao and others did similar things.

[@fazole]

@@gravitypronepart2201 Restarting the calendar actually goes back to Chinese and Japanese dynasties which did the same thing.

[@Monatio79]

@@fazole Pol was inspired, first and foremost, by the French revolution during his student days in Paris. Throw in some Marxist fervor and Mao's great cultural devolution in the 1960s and you have a recipe for disaster. He was married to his first wife on Bastille Day, a coincidence I think not.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

@@fazole Are you refering to the adoption of the Gregorian calinder, or befor that. Prior to the Japanese Imperial dynasty Japan was ruled by verious regional warlords. (SHOGANS)

[@alediazofficial2562]

I've never had such an eerie feeling as I did whilst standing in front of the killing fields memorial in Cambodia. To see such a tower of human remains and know it's only a fraction of all people killed was truly horrifying and mind blowing..

[@johnshaw8228]

ALE, memorials of mass murders, genocide, massacres and such surround the globe.

[@alediazofficial2562]

@@johnshaw8228 they absolutely do, but i only got the chance to see this one in person :)

[@die1mayer]

@@johnshaw8228 Death is the one certainty of life.

[@ladymopar2024]

It os very moving, when I was young and this going on a our involvement in Vietnam.

[@johnshaw8228]

@@alediazofficial2562 yes I know. Just keep in mind that this is happening all around the planet for over a thousand years over and over again. It comes in Cycles just like day and night high tide and low tide. It is part of the structure of humanity. Man has always been a killer. The first man born of woman was a killer and he murdered his own brother.. that's part of the story of the Bible and it is a very cogent and informative one. What happened many thousands of years ago even to the very first man and first woman is still happening today. Everything people did from the dawn of time they are still doing now.

[@Greg_call]

Fascinating documentary. Was never taught this important history in school.

[@katev3744]

You forgot to highlight the diplomatic support for the Pol Pot regime by the US.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

😂

[@nedkelly8553]

Having lived in Cambodia for 11 years, I can attest that this documentary is accurate and surprisingly detailed given that it's 55 minutes long. The narrator even gets the Khmer pronunciations right (mostly anyways and certainly far better than many other attempts I've come across!). Nice job, always glad to see people creating video content with substance, because I'm sorry kids, but most topics of any real interest or complexity take longer than a 10 second Tiktok video to explain. Though, at the same time, this channel shows that it can be done well without stretching it out to Ken Burns type series lengths.

[@eradicator187]

Very well said Ned

[@qozzie3760]

Yes, lots of nontent everywhere

[@loco_tom]

Susdey! I too have spent a few years in the kingdom of wonder. Never really understood why the Cambodians dislike Vietnamese so much, but this video explains it very well, albeit in 55 minutes. I had two coffees and a cigarillo to listen through. It would have been worthwhile to familiarize with this bit of history while I was still in Cambodia, but often political discussions with uncles became quite heated 😂 One time a cafe owner of Khmer Krom descent asked a former police chief if he is okay that he is originally from Vietnam, and the chief replied "I don't care". The gentleman kept coming almost every day there for coffee! Fun times in 🇰🇭 10/10 would recommend, just be wary of opening a can of worms...

[@ex8280]

I don't remember a "civil war" in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge just marched in and killed everyone who had an ounce of relation with the West.

[@pbabiesinspace6112]

But it too long. Need to condense in 20 words or less. Just kidding. Tik Tok is the literal devil

[@watersbey25]

I spent a week in Cambodia back in 1995 as a backpack tourist I stopped asking the teenagers in Cambodia if they had mothers or fathers. They kept saying their mother and father was dead. What a depressing time to go..

[@pc-9826]

That's why you support communist they help solving over populated problems

[@daniellewalsh]

🎻

[@andystarmore6326]

Absolutely fascinating and very well put together documentary. I've read some of the comments below but have had to stop reading them because I've been crying so much. My heart goes out to all of you who lost loved ones.

[@Inklenation]

I’ve been to the killing fields… it was heart breaking… so was the high school turned death camp S21…. I shed many tears that day… it is SO sad … and the country is SO BEAUTIFUL!… (except for the land mines).

[@CB_ChaosLove]

it was very difficult not to break down in tears there at S21

[@Inklenation]

@@CB_ChaosLove I think all of us that have been there?… are just a little bit tainted because of the fact… I have been to many places where people have been killed or imprisoned.. but S21 was the most in your face shock to the system I have had… I found a human thigh bone 🦴 in the killing fields and reported it… and they just left it there.. (as bones keep surfacing as the land erodes).. it took firing machine guns for an hour to snap me out of it…

[@mdunawaym]

I was in a ceramics class the night he died. I remember it well. the instructor always had the radio on. The news announced his death, and she stopped the class long enough to say "Pol Pot. What a bastard". Many of the students were too young to know, but I was the oldest one in the class, so I completely understood.

[@tomhamilton1348]

Not true but cool story. Would work well in like a tv show or film.

[@doolan0543]

Weird

[@markwolfshohl6562]

Ceramics class? Jeez... you actually admit that?

[@mdunawaym]

@@markwolfshohl6562 Yes. Why do you ask? It seems a bit off point.

[@jongallardo8006]

Were you there in person to verify his story ? If not then shut up

[@matthewstorer8236]

I dated a woman back in 1992 who escaped the Khymer Rouge. Her father and mother and 2 brothers and sister escaped in the middle of the night as Pol Pots men went door to door murdering everybody. Her father was a wanted man and luckily they were able to become U.S. citizens. She was absolutely gorgeous without even realizing it. She was forced to break things off with me because I wasn't Cambodian. Her family arranged a marriage for her. Sadly her Cambodian husband murdered her in 1996. RIP Rotha. I will always love you.❤️

[@garam6555]

cambodian and viet so beautiful, you will always know that love, rip rotha

[@benfir8920]

Thank you for sharing. So sad what happened.

[@lilmane1070]

Oh my God

[@matthewstorer8236]

@John Cliff Thank you. It's hard for me to not look back to 30 years ago and wonder how things would be had she just told her father to piss off. Even blaming myself in retrospect. Maybe I pushed her too hard to ignore her father's wishes. However, I now have a 21 year old daughter that I'm extremely proud of and in six months I'll have a grand daughter.

[@delma8937]

Wow, I am so sorry nothing like hanging on to the what ifs...people have this more then you realize God bless you and your family

[@seriously6649]

Well written and well presented. It seems tough to find good narration much on YT, nailed it here.

[@Flamsterette]

Thanks for the upload!

[@rubennilsson5416]

I worked in Thailand for an international company back in 88-96. 90 or 91 a Cambodian trade delegation cam to visit us and asked us to start purchasing products ftom there. I went to Phnom Phen to have a look. The town was a ghost town in rubble. The UN troops was there. Streets full of garbage and junk, people living on the side walks. No electricity except from a few generators. An open bar ( Martini)? entertainment area full of UN soldiers, a few NGO workers and a lot of Vietnamese girls. Occacion machine gun could be heard in the evenings. I concluded I was there way to early for us to start up any business. Since then I’ve been back in recent years and I am happy to see that Cambodia has evolved. Lovely people! Fantastic video many young people need to see!

[@harpar1028]

i am saxaphone street girl

[@abiebarraca5873]

This is one of the best presentation I' ve ever seen. I knew about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge but not as detailed as how it was presented in this video. This an excellent and highly recommended video. Thanks for this!

[@awakeandwatching953]

its good although it dose seem to make an effort to separate pol pots actions from marxist ideology based mostly on conjecture. its hard to tell to what extent it was a factor but i feel its far greater influence on the nature of the genocide than his nationalism

[@claragrunkemeyer5683]

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[@andrewcurrie1373]

That is exactly what I was thinking as well. It is such a refreshing change to see a documentary without political bias, but rather, just explaining things as they played out in an informative, well-resourced manner. It would be nice if our news media was like that.

[@billm5462]

@@awakeandwatching953 Just how did he support Marxist ideology?

[@korvstopparen]

@@awakeandwatching953 agree. Dont think the U.S aiding Khemer Rogue is confirmed. As often is sadly i think the maker of this docu personal political views shows here

[@stewpit391]

Knowing what my grandmother was going through during this time has truly been enlightening. I can’t imagine having to flee the country with her family which included my mother, which at that time was only a year old. A lot had to go right for me to be here, not even including my grandfather on my dad’s side fighting in the Vietnam war that caused so many problems. Whatever happens, it’s crazy to know that my still living relatives both have experiences that tie to the bloodiest times of the 20th century.

[@christopherjcarson]

Brilliant documentary, vey informative!

[@joememphis1571]

I went to school many years ago with quite a few students whose parents survived Pol Pot. One kid told me that his father lost his mother and all nine of his sisters and he and his twin brother went into hiding as they walked over 40 miles over a few days trying to get to safety. They first moved to Australia in 1980 and in 1988 they relocated to the United States settling in California and Colorado.

[@patheticprepper4496]

The demoncraps want this for us now... total control

[@ex8280]

My uncle lost his wife and twin girls in Cambodia. They were a beautiful family.

[@joememphis1571]

@@ex8280 I couldn’t even fathom or comprehend what he had went through when he lost his loved ones like that.

[@pedroborda7227]

Fantastic video. Drip-dry, straight to the point information to leave a 90's child nostalgic of documentaries of old. No nonesense, no sugar coating, no added fat. As a dyslexic who has trouble reading, yet *loves* learning, channels like yours are godly blessing. Thank you.

[@Flamsterette]

Thank you for proving that it is possible not to type like a moron while having dyslexia. I know someone who has it and her posts are total unreadable gibberish.

[@madashellmunchies7992]

My dad used to watch war movies and he would watch “The Killing Fields” a lot. 😔

[@muadoem]

Cả thế giới và liên hợp quốc nợ Việt Nam một lời xin lỗi😢…Việt Nam muôn năm❤Những chiến sỹ Việt Nam đã ngã xuống vì nhân dân camphuchia Mãi mãi là những anh hùng của nhân loại Vì hoà bình quốc tế❤❤❤

[@REK-lf4dx]

🇰🇭❤🇻🇳

[@harpar1028]

@@REK-lf4dx kay cee bokola

[@hrivett54]

I’ve been to The Killing Fields it broke my heart especially seeing the tree where they bashed babies skulls against it and today is still stained with their blood 😢😢. The Cambodians today are some of the most humble beautiful people I’ve ever met …. Though still frightened it can happen again …

[@sontayatoemsook1266]

went there in 2000, still teeth and bones about

[@Monatio79]

Yes, the "killing tree against which executioners beat children". Choeung Ek is an eerily serene place which belies the horrors that took place there. I had the honor of meeting Chum Mey, one of the survivors, at Tuol Sleng.

[@davidmarsden8008]

Yes it could Heather I’m afraid

[@brandonhunt8431]

If anyone was as evil as Hitler and the SS, it was Pol Pot and his henchmen.

[@hunglikeadonkeybutnotassmelly]

I was at the Killing fields a few years ago it was still hard to take in the horror that happened there even with three stories of skulls looking out at you. The audio narration you can listen to as you walk the site helps it to sink in. I travelled overland from Saigon to PP, a desolate landscape to be met with a shocking contrast of utter poverty and filth mixed with the elite in range rovers as you enter PP. Maybe I will return one day Maybe not, but i am glad I saw the place. You are correct The people are very nice, not sure I would be after living through Pol Pots reign.

[@priatalat]

Thank you Vietnam for taking down this lunatic

[@cadeldonat4471]

😘

[@davidstaudohar9690]

Vietnam didn't kill Pol pot and his renegade army We DID 🦅🇺🇸🦅‼️ Semper Fidelis 3/3/3

[@moze_-]

@@davidstaudohar9690 You do know he died in 1998 right? The year I was born. We didn't kill shit, buddy. Edit: and I assume the 3/3/3 is when you graduated from boot camp. So 5 years before you joined, this dude was still eating good.

[@davidstaudohar9690]

@@moze_- Hey dude, who ever U are,, I'm not retracting anything, period, I am a living witness, period, yes Pol pot survived and escaped trial and punishment 4 crimes against humanity, His army didn't, 2.4 million Cambodians didn't live to tell their stories either , THE NEW GENOCIDE is taking place right here in America, .not in the past but present,

[@fireguy98gaming]

@@davidstaudohar9690 youre fucking crazy bro

[@nedmccarroll8462]

Your doc's are brilliant thank you all

[@momv2pa]

Somehow you guys managed to pull me in on this one. I was a young adult during Pol Pot’s years and I definitely remember hearing his name multiple times during that era. I wasn’t really interested in hearing about this guy, but I love history and that’s what grabbed me. Dang you guys are good. Very well done.

[@bobtaylor6585]

It is ironic that Vietnam,came to the rescue of Cambodia,and ended the genocide, shame the Chinese and Americans helped Pol pots evil regime.

[@PMur66]

The Americans did no such thing. The overwhelming majority of aid came from China.

[@alexcarter8807]

It seems a pretty dependable thing that the US can be counted on to back the most evil regime. We were rah-rah behind the Nazis until they started attacking allies and then one of their allies attacked us. We've just backed out of Afghanistan and given them an army's worth of weapons and vehicles, aircraft and tanks etc. because we finally figured out that the Taliban is just a bit more evil than the warlords we'd been backing - and they were pretty horrible.

[@gregorjerman973]

true, but the Genocide didn't budge Vietnam at first during the early stage of rampage, because they didn't want a full conflict with a fellow communist neighbor. Until the Atrocities was out of proportion that it will reach vietnam land as well they had to deal with it. Soviet Union supported Vietnam on both Wars providing them with weapons and supplies, even to the point that they deploy armies to the chinese border in case they go too far with Vietnam. The real villains here are China US and the UN for supporting an evil regime as disgusting as the Nazis they turned the blind eye until Vietnam exposed the Killing fields they pretend they're not responsible for anything. The Cold war is as fucked up as US twisted mind is concerned.

[@alexanderchan76]

@@PMur66 They really did. The only great power that stood against Pol Pot was the Soviet Union. While you are right that the majority of his aid came from China. The US, UK and others hated the Soviet Union and Vietnam so much that they supported and aided the Khmer Rouge in their fight against the Soviet-backed Vietnamese.

[@user-bx7vu5cs8p]

@@PMur66 shut up

[@erics5572]

You should have added how the west failed Cambodia in the months following Pol Pot's downfall and caused mass suffering and deaths from starvation. Because the Vietnamese took down the lunatic the west refused to aid the humanitarian crisis by providing even basic support because that would legitimise the Vietnamese who had just beaten them. Very rarely is this mentioned.

[@narapha6211]

South Vietnamese told and ask the American troop to stop the war as it is during that time so it was really no lost or no win in both position. . The history of this is so deep and corrupted . If you look how Cambodia now we have someone that been in power for many years . Take a good look at who still alive after Polpot die. My mom was forced to marry a my dad if not she will be kill … I talk to them to this day all the killing happened when the leader wasn’t around . when he do come around the regime told the people to act like they in good hand. I do feel Hun San is not telling the truth about his part

[@curtisthomas2670]

In late 1975, U.S. NSA and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Thai foreign minister: "You should tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won't let that stand in our way."

[@stevepirie8130]

The United Nations did send aid when both China and Russia was not blocking motions to prevent western help in a communist country. Considering the country murdered foreigners and cutoff contact to the outside world it’s not too surprising not many wanted to help.

[@ikongchin3088]

USA would never allow that. DEMOCRACY = HYPOCRACY

[@ribertfranhanreagen9821]

in fact west even supported pol pot regime and give them fund

[@nango4073]

I have the opportunity of visiting Cambodia and the killing fields and also hear the story from one of my friend of how he escaped the regime and all the thinks he saw and lived to avoid been killed. Also the now museum on Phnom Penh have stories of the horrors done by this psychopath.

[@gravitypronepart2201]

And his brainwashed army of communist youths

[@WillJohns-tr1zt]

For everything the Khmer people have endured , they still remain happy and friendly. I cherish my friendship with the people I have met

[@Hungdd99]

Thank you Vietnam for liberating Cambodia from genocide despite being called "invaded :((" by almost the whole world ☺☺

[@tomlaity109]

Mr. Chun Siev; my Tae-Kwon-Do instructor;was born and raised in Cambodia. He was there during Khmer Rouge's reign of terror; losing his father and his uncles in Tuol Sleng, the Khmer Rouge's infamous torture center. It is a miracle that he survived to tell the tale!

[@Joy3269]

Thank You For This Video. It was really very nice , informative & brilliant. May God Bless Yourself & Your Team. We will always share & like your videos. May God Bless You. Thank You.👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

[@philipdeutsch9716]

Very Interesting Video. Thanks for Sharing. Unbelievable what happened in the Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) Killing Fields. Philip Deutsch

[@den359]

This was very well done. I am a Vietnam veteran and remember this horrible time in history. I can’t really refer to Polpot as a man. More of a monster. I will never understand how a human being can do such horrible things that he did. This continues to happen unfortunately in other countries today. I have to ask myself why we as a such a diverse world of good people, do we continue to allow this? Where are those governments who continue to denounce this type of behavior?

[@TheTriple2000]

Thank you very much for your time and service sir! As a Cambodian born and bred in Phnom Penh myself I have very high respect for Vietnamese especially for your soldiers. If it weren't for you guys, I don't think I would have been able to come into this world. And yes it was really shameful that the U.N and the States helped support Pol Pot... because Vietnam was their enemy, they saw Pol Pot as a potential ally..

[@Kevbarring]

Throughout the 80s the Khmer Rouge were armed by China whose aid went through US ally Thailand with US blessing.

[@JohannPachelbel81]

@@TheTriple2000 American,Chinesse, Polpot,Thailand wrote a true dark history in 20th milenium.shameful

[@assabkebir1]

They allow it to happen by ignoring it and pretending they care as long as it benefits them on way or the other.

[@kamalindsey]

The US government supported him because they were angry about Vietnam. He and the Khmer Rogue largely came to power after the U.S did an illegal bombing run in Cambodia under Nixon that killed thousands. The people you fought in Vietnam liberated this country. You are the bad guys of history, but you can hide behind Pol Pot all you want.

[@johnnysun1568]

My parents, uncles, aunts, and grandma went through it. The crazy stories they tell I’m so glad to be in America. They tricked my dad saying he’s free to go as he ran off they started shooting at him. And my uncle they made him fight other soldiers just to stay alive.

[@torilllundborn7899]

As I see it as we know there have been NO peace on earth since the Sinfall..written in the Bible...we can only believe in a Heavenly Paradise..

[@small_fries7573]

🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ It is alright to be concern or not know about what happens after this life. Fortunately there's a way to not suffer, not be in danger, not be poor, not get hurt, not have to work in vain, not have to feel any kind of negative vibe, and not to get tired anymore. Imagine you will be invincible, immortal, and holy with a new, upgraded body to the core! Imagine everyone around you will be the same as you. Isn't that a delightful thought? It's true you or anyone can have eternal life. All you got to do is to accept Jesus Christ 🙏 as your Savior! Once you do, He will let you into heaven during your day when you finally see Him! God does like you. You have to reach our to Him by prayers 🙏 ❤️ ♥️. Let Him know your issues 🙏 He is listening to you.

[@VVIIFINEST]

Beautiful stores. Life was so different back then. Real men. Not these pussys these days. Least family died good, honoured death 🙌🙏😊

[@richardeinheuser5529]

Keep America safe and sane. Never vote Democrat in the USA. They are neo communists

[@-trashmammal-]

The US helped him commit these atrocities. Same with the UK. Don't be too happy to be here.

[@jameshardingiv6837]

I know a man who survived this. He and his family escaped a rice field and made their way to Laos being hunted by the militias. Made it to America where he still lives today.

[@kalmeio_17]

My grandparents live through this a few years before my parents were born. They don’t really talk about it much and my dad briefly mentioned some of the stuff that happened to them. I don’t blame them for it either since hearing all of it is disturbing. I couldn’t quite comprehend it when I was younger and honestly now, it’s still kinda surreal to me.

[@DattDoanphat]

More than 30,000 Vietnamese soldiers died in Cambodia, including my father. To this day, my family still does not know where my father's body is. Because of the war with the Khmer Rouge, Vietnamese people lost nearly 50% of their budget. defense policies and countless embargoes and criticisms. While our country has only been independent for 5 years. And now some Cambodians repay the favor to the Vietnamese. by saying that the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia. and reclaimed the land. I think that year if we only thought selfishly about the country and did not care about Cambodia, I don't know if they would still be alive or not. Force us to return the land. That would be more than 30,000 Vietnamese soldiers' lives. 30,000 Vietnamese mothers have lost their children, wives have lost their husbands. How much do they have to pay for this??😔😔😔😔

[@Traderjoe]

I know a lot of Vietnamese people and they are all really nice people. I feel bad for what happened with them and with the Cambodians under this guy. All that farm land is fertilized by human bodies in the millions

[@cristianmicu]

so if i buy today rice imported from cambodgia, theres a bit of the farmers in those grains of rice

[@redlight3932]

@@cristianmicu you go far enough and the water was in a dinosaurs bladder

[@FergyGuitar]

Having visited Cambodia several times, met many such beautiful Khmer people and enjoyed everything about their culture, I found this as moving as it was instructive. Yes, I have been to the "killing fields" and S-21, both of which took me a long time to get over. I knew about Pol Pot obviously (and Iang Sary and the other Blood Brothers with single digit numbers) but did not really know that much about him in personal terms. Thank you so much for this excellent documentary which has filled so many gaps in my knowledge. As my late grandmother, a poorly educated but very wise woman used to say, "It is a bad day you don't learn anything". How very true, and this channel contributes greatly to it. Thank you so much.

[@hullcityafc72]

Glad you refernece the prison S21, for me that was visually more brutal than the killing fields site, even though human skulls are on display there. The blown up black & white photographs taken by the Vietnamese liberators on the walls of the cells where turture was carried out, show exactly what they found there. There is a full floor of these macabre rooms. After three or four you've had enough, it's sickening. You spot he dried blood on the floors, which have been deliberately left. Everything is "in your face". You can enter the tiny cells, even to close the cell door behind you for a few seconds is disconcerting. The whole place is heavy with death and suffering. Finally the gallows in the grounds. I couldn't eat for a long time after that visit. Before entering I had asked the motorbike driver who gave me a lift there if his family had lost anyone during the 70s, he just nodded. Then we shared a fruit juice in silence before I entered.

[@jillthompson1248]

Your grandma is beyond wise and in the best company I believe it was Socrates that said “if you don’t learn one new thing everyday you might as well be dead” so listen to your grandma she knows things and sounds like a great woman to sit with and listen to you are lucky to have her

[@Angie.Globetrotter]

Good Docu! Thank you! I've been there, but mainly to see Angkor Wat and Tonle Sap.

[@teshalebekele3126]

Good narration & explanation!

[@ThePositivewave]

I was married to a women that was a slave in the labor camps under the Khmer Rouge. Years after this event it still affected her mentally, the scares are forever engrave in her mind, heart and soul.

[@christianriddler5063]

Was?

[@ThePositivewave]

@@christianriddler5063 She pass away a few years go

[@christianriddler5063]

@@ThePositivewave I see, sorry for your loss. I wish you well.

[@ThePositivewave]

@@christianriddler5063 thank you

[@garlandogellecanao8730]

Thanks for the information. Now I know that Vietnam played an important role in stopping this genocide.

[@lientruong2500]

And we were sanctioned for 10 years due to this?

[@philipdeutsch4207]

I appreciate the information! Thanks!

[@AbdulKadir-zw4wq]

Very understandable and clear expression, thanks.

[@tallerdelcuero]

It is sad that no many people knows about history. Pol Pot was in the same level as Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Kadafy. Thanks to the vietnamis the end of the regime went down. It is important to notice , the US did some remarkable mistakes in foreign policies at that time.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

I agree absolutely Pol Pot was as *brutal* a psychopathic ANIMAL as all you named, but he did not kill anywhere *near* as many as Stalin or Mao. The numbers from Mao's "Great Leap Forward," and "The Great Terror" orchestrated by Stalin -- JUST those 2 examples -- are in the tens of MILLIONS.

[@chepushila1]

@@ChristopherSaindon Stalin is the least deadly of them all.

[@bitittv4487]

@@ChristopherSaindon Polpot killed 25% of total Cambodian population at that time. Imagine if Mao & Stalin did the same percentage you would know how many people had been killed.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

@@chepushila1 WHAT?!

[@joesmith5159]

look into the holodomor and who was involved

[@bluestilling101]

I visited S21 while assisting with landmines removal as part of a detail with a foreign government. Walking through S21 and visually seeing everything exactly as it was left, was horrifying to the point you could almost hear the screams and cries. The level of destruction to Cambodia would probably rank it as one of the most destroyed countries that still exist. It is almost inhuman to think that this man could cause such heinous destruction and resurface as an active part of its government without having to face a trial and quick execution.

[@Mememeep]

Its true. I couldn't help myself from feeling scared and sad at the same time. We met one of the survivors, he told us he survived because he can paint. Whenever I see the older cambodians , I cannot help from thinking what they have been through.

[@harpar1028]

STALIN CHURCHILL PINOCHET ASS WHOLES WORSE THAN POL

[@Angie.Globetrotter]

@@kimlarso " Hitler (who ran away to Brazil) " are you stupid or what?

[@ALLmattersALLmatters]

You are a little disoriented with Russia it's not homogeneous at all ​@@kimlarso

[@sothearaklim1379]

Very well done. I’m learning Cambodia’s history from a foreign channel. My family have a lot of stories to tell but I’m just bad at writing things. You earned a subscribe from me. 🥰 keep it up.

[@susi1153]

Thank you for a very interesting and good documentary. I remember the horrors my mother told me about in the seventies. I was around 20. When I was 61, travelling around on my own in south east Asia, I went to Cambodia, finally. I visited the Killing fields and the S21 in Phnom Penh. I think Cambodia has been a forgotten country with not much support from the world. Wonderful people, but so poor. I got a god child through an organization "Global Humanitaria". In june this year (2024) I will go to her village and do some voluntary work and am trying to fund means. What happened during the Pol Pot regime is undescribable. My heart got stuck in Cambodia and I long to go back to add my drop to the ocean.

[@rolfkok9004]

I was one of the first "tourists" to go to cambodia. That was in 1991, the borders were still closed and it was not without danger. We illegaly sailed from Had Lek Thailand to Koh Kong Cambodia by boat. We were welcomed by a crowd of people on arrival, including the police and military. After paying a little, we were allowed to move freely on the island. The people were very friendly and welcomed us with open arms. Had a wonderful time there.

[@boonestead4812]

i worked with a guy in the early 80s who came from cambodia.e immigrated to canada and always said he was so lucky to live here.he married an america cambodian immigrant,and moved to florida.he never talked about his past.was always smiling and cheerful.good for him,but i know hell never forget.will always be haunted by it.

[@thedarkhorse100]

It amazes me how many people have never heard of this man

[@HexFlex-ss9rm]

Not a man , dude was a straight monster 👹

[@michaell8002]

You are probably talking about Americans...who know nothing 😂

[@thedarkhorse100]

Yes I am, and sadly with what they fail to teach now nobody will, I graduated in 83 so it was in my lifetime and I still had to learn it on my own

[@rkak15]

The fact that the Khmer Rouge was supported by the US government is something I wish more people would talk about.

[@banjoacosta]

So did China and other Asean countries, north vietnamese army, the United nations, BECAUSE at that time it was the only legitimate government of that country.

[@ProfessorxVile]

There is also movie about this time period from 2017 called "First They Killed My Father" based on the book of the same name by Loung Ung (who was the five-year-old daughter of a Cambodian police officer when the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh)

[@corysturgis6660]

I have a friend whose father was also a police officer. Very tragic

[@choreani]

Funan also did a really good take on the Cambodian Genocide

[@stephenguy3901]

That book is so good , easy to read in one sitting.

[@brianmorley7165]

Watched the film a while ago its brilliantly acted it left a lasting impression on me

[@TrungLe-no7is]

I was able to see this movie, and saw Vietnamese soldiers protecting them, while their fellow Cambodians oppressed and killed them. it's terrible

[@donbaldwin6998]

I have traveled extensively in Cambodia, it is a beautiful land with amazingly friendly people. But I have seen the effects on the country this butcher left behind . I have stood on the killing fields outside of Phnom Phen on a rainy day seeing the fragments of his victims leached through the earth. I have seen S-21 and the atrocities recorded there. There is no excuse, reasoning, or defense of such a man or his followers. He subjected a kind and decent people to a barbarity nobody deserves. And they were his own. God and history will be his judge, and I can predict the verdict. This is a chilling piece telling a story that needs telling.

[@abrockkalypse]

are u condeming guantanamo, abu abu ghraib, camp buca, the torture-cooperation of the usa with egypt, the torture-camps of the usa in europe and so on in the same way?

[@ericscott5224]

@@abrockkalypse false equivalency. Nothing you mentioned comes close to the horrors inflicted by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot

[@abrockkalypse]

@@ericscott5224 well, what do u mean with "Nothing you mentioned comes close to the horrors inflicted by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot"? something like: when western countrys torture humans it is not that bad?

[@yamatokira4335]

Well, Mr. Don, apparently you have see what Brother Number One capable to do with Khmer Rouge. I have been in Cambodia too, a couple years ago. Nice place, with rather hot and humid temperature. They have beautiful temple in Siam Reap and very traumatic history, also.

[@markhindmarsh9360]

China Thailand and USA protected him,they stood by and watched his atrocities,because it suited them.

[@SuperUniverse]

If you look closely at his final years , There is justice still being served knowing the Evil Tyrant was suffering poverty and was ravaged by Cancer and a stroke and his power gone while being betrayed by a husk of his army. A fitting end for a barbarian who made his people suffer.

[@austhubibibi]

Thank you for good insights of past history

[@davedavidh3328]

Thank you Vietnam for ending the rule of a truly evil man.

[@timothysauder8222]

i was there in 1976 along the border and in the refugee camps. I was nearly killed by the KR but escaped to tell the story. In the last few years i have returned to this beautiful country and have many friends there. In my 5 trips i try to avoid the many historical sites of this massacre that took place. It is interesting how the people to this day are incredibly open to talk about it.

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

Wow. I can’t believe to have experienced something like this first hand.

[@conformistbastard9842]

That way people don't forget and let it happen again.

[@vansangbui8940]

Thế giới nợ Việt Nam một lời xin lỗi

[@zenli2732]

Whenever there is a country with "democratic" in its name, it is communist for sure.

[@sutsokunthealifetv]

Thanks for sharing 🥰

[@lornespry]

I was sorely in need of some better information about the history of Cambodia, and In particular the Khmer Rouge and Po Pot. I really have appreciated this presentation. I ran it back and forth to let the facts sink in. Thanks for all the effort in creating this film.

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

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[@Sralaineo-]

The REAL TRUTH and Facts of khmer killers are China and north Vietnamese Who plotted and planning for years..... Until these days

[@saromom4558]

It's all according to Viet-Nam plan to march to the south like their country name mean. Cambodia and Laos is part of what Viet-Nam plan to conquer and exterminate the local population to take the land. Masse murderer and atrocity all around Viet-Nam. Yet the worl blame us Khmer when we are the victim that get kill. Infiltration and assassination of Khmer leader since French colony . Head of communism in south west Asia is Viet-Nam. Establish a pattern to kill and use Pol pot name and the Khmer Rouge to exterminate the entire Khmer nation. And they can get away and fool the world. Same thing happened in Laos.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

3 replies and i see zero. Why

[@nguyenthianhthu112]

And the whole world including The Mighty America called Vietnamese people "invaders" for destroying Pol Pot and His Khmer Rouge to save Vietnamese people and Cambodian people. Where were the UN and all mighty nations when Pol Pot and his army mass killed Vietnamese and Cambodian people?

[@kulathumaniv3491]

Thanks for uploading this documentary to know Cambodian History.

[@generationomega2633]

Gotta love Communisum... ... It just brings out the best in people.

[@V63666]

Excellent documentary. I would also recommend the 2 JOHN PILGER documentaries on Cambodia. They not only go into details of the period, but also the aftermath of how Western Governments tried to re-install Pol Pot in the 80's and 90's. We need more videos like this one that teach the up and coming generations the true horror of human nature. Well done.

[@stefaniaponitz5738]

Thanks for the tip!

[@samcash6131]

John Pilger was a huge supporter of Pol Pot; he wrote extensively and glowingly of Pol Pot and Ho Che Min. Pilger was a treacherous pro communist. He only changed his writings about Pol Pot when the horrific evils of Pol Pot were exposed to the world and he had to make a pretence of being deceived. The USA and it's CIA especially have made some horrific decisions over many decades going right back to hiding some Nazi criminal scientists after WWII so they could exploit their knowledge. The CIA has interfered in politics of many countries like a secret cabal of evil people - and they are still doing the same things today.

[@afkfromk1]

the west is always part of atrocities all over the world, its in their DNA

[@kingfisher9725]

Thank you for the recommendation. Pilger seems to be an interesting guy!

[@ratttttyyy]

He's documentaries are free to watch on his website. I think he did 4 in total on Cambodia.

[@antoniog.z.4372]

Thanks very much for this video. I could say I loved it had it not been that the topic is not a lovable one.

[@nthmai9676]

BURSTING WITH LIFE, PEACEFUL LIFE! Yes, that is Cambodia now, BURSTING WITH PEACEFUL LIFE. Thanks to whom ? Please answer honestly and impartially.

[@northstar2839]

I visited the Vietnamese border village of Ba Chuc, which in April 1978 was invaded by Pol Pots soldiers who killed 3,157 inhabitants, leaving only two people alive who could escape. This shows the totally crazy nature of this man's policy: attacking a neighbouring people that had just vanquished the mightiest empire of the 20th century, when your own country counts just a few millions of people, of whom, moreover, you have starved a lot to death ... this was really “worse than a crime, it was an error” as Talleyrand would have said.

[@miguelschor8725]

That is wild just thinking about! Pol Pot just didn't give a damn.

[@jimgarvey1581]

Who really was the ruler of the "Red Scarf" in Cambodia? Think about it.

[@ChipCoDon3]

Many Westerners do not know the truth because the Americans and Chinese and some other Southeast Asian countries have supported the Khmer Rouge government to fight Vietnam. when the polpot attacked and killed the Vietnamese people we tried to let the world know but the United Nations led by the US thought it was a fabrication by Vietnam and a lie to have an excuse to attack Cambodia. After the war we didn't hear any apology from those countries.

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521]

@@jimgarvey1581 who?

[@nguyenthanhchungnguyen9850]

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 china

[@P0cketfull0fsunshine]

Brilliant film with lots of new information for me. I visited Cambodia in 2003 and visited the S21 camp. Some of the stories I heard from locals about what went on there were incredibly tragic and disturbing.

[@winniduesseldorf]

Thank you very much for this intense deep information in histiry

[@dpink4832]

I put this on to fall asleep to... But wow, it's far too deep to ignore. What a crazy history. I never imagined

[@seed8208]

my grand mum & grandpa escaped from one of the encampments during the regime. she had my dad in 1975, and she was even the daughter of a government official before pol pot, so she likely would have been killed if she stayed. i watched this to better understand her life since she doesn’t tell me much about it, but i feel shocked watching this realizing she lived through this. i hope that someday i can visit sreok khmer to learn more about my family, and i hope my yay and tha live so they can see me become successful for them & be proud

[@myamdane6895]

You owe it to them to stand up against socialism and communism in today’s society

[@malcolmrowe5031]

Been to Angkor wat twice, Cambodia is a great place, lovely people, the museums showing all of the death and cruelty is heartbreaking to see :(

[@Mtjbingo]

I honestly am very ignorant to the history of Cambodia, but this insight you have given me has made me want to learn more. Thank you so much for this history lesson. Sadly he escaped my death..

[@khsimagesdotcom856]

I learned about an 11 year old girl who was accused of stealing rice. When she refused, her accusers challenged her to prove it by cutting and tearing her stomach. No food was found but she died from the greivace wounds. Pol Pot himsel died of old age in his bed peacefully.