S21 Prison: The Gateway to Cambodia’s Killing Fields

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@Bassist-Beneath
@Bassist-Beneath 4 жыл бұрын
The fact that Pol Pot and the prince both died comfortably of natural causes makes me want to throw up
@shebbs1
@shebbs1 4 жыл бұрын
The utter vileness of Communism was revealed in the Killing Fields.
@sharkfacemlg
@sharkfacemlg 4 жыл бұрын
Its weird they almost always get away.
@ghoul2164
@ghoul2164 4 жыл бұрын
Pol pot was killed tho. By one of his own comrades.
@shanghaichang
@shanghaichang 4 жыл бұрын
It's more complex than you think. If you wanna something to throw up on. Read on how American secretly bombing Cambodia during the Vietnam war, involvement with Coup D'etat which leads to Khmer Rouge regime in the first place. Then literally support Khmer Rouge regime. and still pretends it didn't happen to this day.
@ghoul2164
@ghoul2164 4 жыл бұрын
@@shanghaichang Well USA did give a 250$ million fund to rebels in Cambodia
@AnthonyChhan
@AnthonyChhan 4 жыл бұрын
My parents and older siblings endured the Cambodian genocide. I thank you for this video and your video of Pol Pot. They mean a lot and is our constant reminder of where we had come from and what could my life have been had it not been for the genocide. Thank you again, these videos mean a lot to me.
@primesspct2
@primesspct2 4 жыл бұрын
I am sorry for your loss Anthony, my family sponsored some cambodian refugees , we all ate Thanksgiving dinner together. This was long ago when I was in my early 20's At that time I had no real comprehension for what they had been through.
@djquinn11
@djquinn11 4 жыл бұрын
Can’t even imagine, glad you’re family was spared. All the best Anthony.
@liz-annedior3576
@liz-annedior3576 3 жыл бұрын
💙
@ChristmasLore
@ChristmasLore 3 жыл бұрын
Glad (somehow) that France adopted so many Cambodgien refugees as kids. I knew personally some of them, they were adopted by my parents' friends. So sorry you went through something so awfully similar.
@littlejourneyseverywhere
@littlejourneyseverywhere 3 жыл бұрын
Blessings to you and your family Anthony. May you find only ease and abundance in your future. ❤️
@soangkeareaksmey1034
@soangkeareaksmey1034 4 жыл бұрын
I’m Cambodian, and I’m here to announce that S21 former director, comrade Duch, just passed away a few days ago.
@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG
@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG 3 жыл бұрын
Good! He’ll report straight to Hell! A lot of them are waiting for him.
@Mwraf
@Mwraf 3 жыл бұрын
Fuck em. Hun Sen will get a foot up his arus next
@Inklenation
@Inklenation 3 жыл бұрын
@JoAnna Edssay but junky piss is expensive?!.. 🤔
@dariagreer3078
@dariagreer3078 3 жыл бұрын
I am convince that Satan welcome him with open arms for eternity.
@m.hoffman2889
@m.hoffman2889 3 жыл бұрын
he may burn in hell forever
@nlwilson4892
@nlwilson4892 4 жыл бұрын
I've been to both S21 and Choeung Ek. Choeung Ek is about the size of a football field, it was originally paddy fields so each pit is about 6ft deep (they have dug some out and put the bones in a stupa) and they piled the bodies right to the top. There were 17 such Killing Fields in Cambodia. There's a thin layer of soil on top of them now but as you walk along the path you can see bits of clothes and bones sticking out. That tree it shows with the sign on - that is what they used to kill the younger children by holding them by the legs and smashing their head on the tree. They considered 3 generations of each family to be guilty for the "crimes of one". It is estimated that if the Vietnamese hadn't invaded when they did, about 4 million would have been dead within weeks because so many were so close to starvation. Both our guides remember, as children, scratching around in the dirt to find grubs to eat. It was good that Simon drew attention to the fact that other groups around the world are doing similar and the message at the end was very necessary - "The tale of S21 isn't something confined to history, a story that we can easily dismiss. It's a warning, a warning about what can happen when you divide a population, when leaders care only about power and we see our enemies not as people but as slogans."
@Simca33
@Simca33 3 жыл бұрын
“We can do this”, being the newest.
@prapanthebachelorette6803
@prapanthebachelorette6803 3 жыл бұрын
I’m seeing this pattern in many countries right now, it’s scary
@fasthracing
@fasthracing 2 жыл бұрын
Nope it used to be a Chinese cemetery.
@BillClinton228
@BillClinton228 Жыл бұрын
Marxism always ends the same way, mass m*rder and horrific poverty. It's almost like the ideology doesnt work in real life without massive amount of starvation and misery... but hey lets keep trying it because that wasnt "real" marxism right?
@nlwilson4892
@nlwilson4892 Жыл бұрын
@@BillClinton228 Not Marxism, these lot were Maoists. Other countries have done Maoism or Marxism and done it reasonably well, no mass persecution. It would be more accurate to say that where people crave power they will find a way to rise to the top of whichever system is in control, whether it is capitalist, fascist or communist. Psychopaths are particularly good at manipulating people and can turn a political ideology into a religious type cult. It is when it gets to that cult like stage when the mass killings and torture take place.
@sydneymiller3970
@sydneymiller3970 3 жыл бұрын
I visited Cambodia as a teenager around 2013. I will never forget those killing fields. There were signs up telling you to notify a guide if you found bones. You could see the indentations in the ground where the mass graves were. I distinctly remember one tree, famous for having been used to kill infants and young children. You could see the bloodstains on the trunk of the tree, and not particularly high up. It all seemed so recent and fresh.
@biofoot7874
@biofoot7874 4 жыл бұрын
That closing message, that needs to be in everyone's head
@jamesbuck2378
@jamesbuck2378 4 жыл бұрын
The only way these kind of events would stop, would be if every single person was caged, under total surveillance. And since that would be impossible, saddle up cause its never gonna completely end. Human paranoia is innate and a part of living nature. We all forget from time to time, but we are just as much animals, as we are humans.
@johnstevenson9956
@johnstevenson9956 4 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbuck2378 It may have been HL Mencken who said, "Darwin was wrong. Man is still an ape."
@--enyo--
@--enyo-- 4 жыл бұрын
James Buck I’m pretty sure that’s how these things start.
@biofoot7874
@biofoot7874 4 жыл бұрын
While the edge-lord nihilists mumble their piece, the sane and coherent must do what we can to not allow the triumph of the worst of us
@jamesbuck2378
@jamesbuck2378 4 жыл бұрын
@@--enyo-- People with free will, are more capable of becoming corrupted, in such a way that they go on to cause chaos. (Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin and so on) That the only way to have stopped these monsters, would have to cage them, surveillance or even just kill them. But since we cannot read minds and since ANYBODY can be a monster, there is no way to completely stopping these things from happening; except caging everyone, or killing all of us.
@oldman975
@oldman975 4 жыл бұрын
And in all of these atrocities there were people who said,”It can’t happen here!” They say it even now.
@dshe8637
@dshe8637 4 жыл бұрын
They used to say it in Bosnia :-(
@blacksheep_edge1412
@blacksheep_edge1412 3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in the USA we've gone from, "it can't happen here," to people pushing for it to happen here.
@oldman975
@oldman975 3 жыл бұрын
@@blacksheep_edge1412 I’m afraid I must agree with you.
@eegernades
@eegernades 3 жыл бұрын
@@blacksheep_edge1412 the beginning domino to push the rest almost got pushed down in january 6, 2021. Thankfully, the domino got stopped before it fell.
@TheLifeOfKane
@TheLifeOfKane 3 жыл бұрын
"It can't happen here" As we pay the Communist Chinese Party to commit the worst genocides in history in exchange for their cheap ethnic slave labor. It's happening now, I'm surprised the video didn't mention China's genocides. But I suppose losing ad money sucks
@Mansini77
@Mansini77 4 жыл бұрын
5:00 “A middle class teacher daydreaming of revolution.” Yeah, I’ve had a few of those in school myself.
@woollypidgeon1948
@woollypidgeon1948 4 жыл бұрын
@Micheal Scott I won’t even bother arguing
@deadrabbit666666
@deadrabbit666666 4 жыл бұрын
@@woollypidgeon1948 nothing to argue
@Powderlover1
@Powderlover1 4 жыл бұрын
Me too... although usually I think of policies like universal healthcare, and a government that works for the people... not what I’m getting from pol pot.
@IronJeff54321
@IronJeff54321 4 жыл бұрын
Yea they were chosen it didn’t just happen as he says ... it was a proxy war to clear away the population
@750voltsdc3
@750voltsdc3 4 жыл бұрын
@American Patriot Yupp privatise it so the Chinese state can educate the young better than the American state could. ;)
@somsachum8261
@somsachum8261 3 жыл бұрын
As a Cambodian, thank you for this. I remember learning about Brother Duch back in college. Our class had a discussion on why he wanted confessions and agreed that it was their way of absolving themselves of being murderers. If a confession was made, they had killed spies and traitors, not innocent people (though this does conflict with their saying of killing ten innocents instead of letting one live). Of course, this is just a theory we had. I think one other thing Brother Duch was obsessed with was finding spies. Each prisoner had to give at least ten names of people within their network. You can pretty much see how this kept continuing, since each of those ten had to give another ten names as they're being tortured. Also, if anyone else is interested in learning more about this, one of the survivors was an artist. From what I remember, they wanted to paint portraits of Pol Pot and distribute it to the masses. During this time most people had not known of his actual appearance, other than by name. This was what saved the artist's life, as I think even being an artist would get you killed (I could be wrong though). He recounted his experience through that ordeal, and talked about how he was given real food for the first time in forever. It was just rice, but after not having real food for so long, he could barely eat the rice without hurting his jaw.
@stillcantbesilencedevennow
@stillcantbesilencedevennow 2 жыл бұрын
The arts rarely survive things like communist regimes. Only just now are those things starting to flourish again.
@Mememeep
@Mememeep Жыл бұрын
I actually met this artist during my first visit. He told us it was really art that had kept him alive.
@johnrock241
@johnrock241 Жыл бұрын
his name was vann nath
@BooshMeBaby
@BooshMeBaby 3 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget the lady who showed my partner and I around S21 telling me, poe faced, about her family walking from Phnom Penh to Battambang, hungry, thirsty, feet raw, stepping over dead bodies along the way. Her face was expressionless but her eyes were the window to a memory as fresh as if it were yesterday. A truly chilling place. As Simon said, everyone lived in fear, even the soldiers. You never knew when it would all turn on you.
@thedefkidletterboxd
@thedefkidletterboxd 4 жыл бұрын
I've been to Cambodia twice. It's one of my favorite countries in the world, and it really changed my life. Learning the horrors of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields, seeing the trees where they bashed in the heads of babies, the cliffs they threw people off of to execute them, and the piles of skulls in stupas built as memorials to the victims was devastating to me. And then seeing the beauties of Angkor Wat and the ancient imperial capital outside Siem Reap, it really broke my heart. It's a country that's summited the highest of highs and trod the most dreadful abyssal lows. I've never quite gotten over it emotionally. If you go at some point in the future, though, the people are among the nicest I've ever met. It's really a remarkable land.
@svenlarson6844
@svenlarson6844 4 жыл бұрын
same as you it changed me,it showed me what the human race was capable of.Without money you have sticks and spears,Bankrolled by i suspect the same gouls hanging around today,Cambodian people are very friendly and people should visit.
@notoriousalien
@notoriousalien 4 жыл бұрын
the fact that people are so kind just makes it even sadder. they have gone through more than any of us yet they smile the widest.
@dadadannn
@dadadannn 3 жыл бұрын
And now today it is the true wild west country. Where your 1st tuktuk driver will tell you if you have money you can do ANYTHING you want. He's right. Literally anything you want. It's an amazing country with beatiful islands, coasts, jungles, cities and no laws, however unfortunately it's being taken over by China now
@mephala7
@mephala7 3 жыл бұрын
On my list soon as we can travel.
@chris2pher44
@chris2pher44 3 жыл бұрын
Ya I went once with some people from work and it’s like a different plant. I’ve got no clue how anything can get accomplished there but it can/does. It was a great time and huge education. If anyone gets a chance you must go. One of my first jobs when I was young the owner was Cambodian and he lost all his family, he would tell me stories and thought they were crazy but once you go there and see the school and the fields no video or pictures does justice. Friend a Cambodian then you can have a travel guide and hook up where to stay and people. Nice cheap place for vacation.
@danielgillard7795
@danielgillard7795 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this one Simon - I live about a mile and a half away from Tuol Sleng and I drive past on my motorbike nearly every day. It's pretty much in the centre of Phnom Penh, and the rest of the neighbourhood is a very nice place, with some great coffee shops and local bars. Heck, my shoemaker is on the same street as S21! And where I live is virtually equidistant between S21 and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields. Despite the utterly horrible history here, the good people of Phnom Penh are rebuilding still, and life is a lot happier for many here these days. I've been watching your videos for a long time, and as tragic as the subject matter is in this one, I'm really glad to see you and your team make this video. I was thinking less than an hour ago that I should visit S21 again as it's been a while since I paid my respects. Anyway - listening to you as a fellow Brit on your videos often serves as a nice reminder of home, but this video's a great surprise - a British voice helping to chronicle a very important piece of the history of this lovely adopted city of mine. Thanks again.
@genghis_connie
@genghis_connie 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for weighing in on this. It's good to hear how things are now. Best to you.
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 4 жыл бұрын
Was there in June 2017
@danielgillard7795
@danielgillard7795 4 жыл бұрын
@@archstanton6102 hope you can make it back again one day sir - it's still as lovely and crazy as ever here :-)
@brettkenyon4679
@brettkenyon4679 4 жыл бұрын
@@danielgillard7795 you pretty much well said what I wanted to say. I visited Phnom Penh in 2009 to perform the Cambodian wedding ceremony. I had already married my wife back in NZ. We visited Choeng Ek Sol and S21. We visited yearly for five years, and I haven't been back since around 2014. The experiences I had in Cambodia made me truly appreciate what I have back in NZ. I want to go back again and see my wife's family too. I miss Cambodia.
@andrewstrugnell7275
@andrewstrugnell7275 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Shoes?
@chrissoclone
@chrissoclone 4 жыл бұрын
A few years ago I first saw the movie "The Killing Fields" which led me into a rabbit hole on Wikipedia I'll never forget. Quite a strong message there at the end Simon, well done.
@SargBjornson
@SargBjornson 4 жыл бұрын
Quirky story: I was the one who started writing that Wikipedia article, in... 2004-05 I think (it was a mini-stub previously and I was bored out of my mind). I didn't know about the topic prior and I had to document myself on it all. I had never cried previously doing something like that, it was an experience I'll remember all my life
@annescholey6546
@annescholey6546 4 жыл бұрын
With the journalists being abused by the Khmer Rouge in the monsoon and Haing S. Ngor fleeing over a corpse filled swamp.
@davidhamilton2093
@davidhamilton2093 4 жыл бұрын
As our Scottish bard wrote, Man's inhumanity to man. Nothing has really changed since he wrote that in the 1780s. Clearly we've learnt nothing.
@crystalmethking
@crystalmethking 4 жыл бұрын
@Gipsy Danger hardest film i have ever watched
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 4 жыл бұрын
The documentary on this place is more harrowing but also has the survivor interviews.
@dudewheresmyvan
@dudewheresmyvan 4 жыл бұрын
I think the most gruesome thing was the tree in the killing fields, were guards would smash babies against it till they stopped breathing. Definitely one of the sickest things. Taking a tour of S-21 and the killing fields was intense.
@josephwright5921
@josephwright5921 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, i saw that tree and have a tiny shard of pottery from nearby. It is horrible what we humans have done to each other. God help us all for the the things that are coming with the Great Reset.
@tyleroutingdyke849
@tyleroutingdyke849 2 жыл бұрын
​@@josephwright5921 that's not pottery..... thats baby-skull shard dude...
@bluegregory6239
@bluegregory6239 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I went to both places in 2012, and they are the heaviest things I've ever seen in a lifetime of travel. Bits of bone still working their way to the surface.
@ProfessorRoy82
@ProfessorRoy82 4 жыл бұрын
I visited these places in 2017. My Uber driver said his parents survived the Khmer Rouge, I felt a bit awkward being driven to the killing fields. Seeing all of the skulls on display with color coded stickers explaining how the prisoner was killed, seeing leftover personal items bloodied, pictures of people who were murdered, the fields and prison itself - it was just a humbling experience.
@amb163
@amb163 4 жыл бұрын
"It can always get worse..." Yeah, that's what I worry about, sitting here in the year 2020. I hope more people take your end message to heart.
@mike04574
@mike04574 4 жыл бұрын
There will definitely not be a mass genocide like this happening this year but we should still be reminded
@amb163
@amb163 4 жыл бұрын
@@mike04574 Don't tempt 2020. There's still four months left.
@spritemon98
@spritemon98 4 жыл бұрын
I always say this phrase
@dudeiii2069
@dudeiii2069 4 жыл бұрын
Being stuck in you house and being stuck in S21 isnt the same
@amb163
@amb163 4 жыл бұрын
@@dudeiii2069 I wasn't making that comparison.
@PB2070
@PB2070 4 жыл бұрын
Great video but if feel i have to mention several things. After Vietnam defeated Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot didn't just disappear to the jungle and lived there until he died. Khmer Rouge collectively fled to Thailand and remained an opposition to the newly formed People's Republic of Kampuchea, while also being backed by the USA, UK, China and their allies as a really perverse version "an enemy of my enemy is my friend" because they wanted an ally in fight against Soviet and Vietnam influence in the region. Also, on insistence of USA, UK and China, Khmer Rouge representatives were holding a seat in the UN instead of the ones from the newly formed People's Republic, which in turn received an embargo by the UN Security Council. All in all, a really tragic chapter in human history.
@dshe8637
@dshe8637 4 жыл бұрын
They could not have been successful without Western backing. That's an even bigger tragedy.
@dylanagoblin9298
@dylanagoblin9298 4 жыл бұрын
Pardon my ignorance but you seem quite knowledgable on the topic and I have just been wondering one thing. I have been researching this and from what I understand the Khmer Rouge were originally communists, motivated to overthrow the dictatorship of Sihanouk. For what reason did they become authoritarian? They seem motivated to "free the people" and all that, but what made them so afraid that they began murdering people just for having glasses, for seeming "elitist". I don't quite understand the shift?
@Philip271828
@Philip271828 4 жыл бұрын
If you're still following this: Do you know why the UK was backing the Khmer Rouge?
@rockonallnight
@rockonallnight 4 жыл бұрын
@@dshe8637 China was by far The Khmer Rouge’s main backer during their ascendence to power and all throughout their reign of terror over Cambodia. The US started backing them after Vietnam overthrew the regime, not during the actual genocide that took place from ‘75 to ‘79. US support was essentially a way to continue on with its proxy war against The Soviet Union once Vietnam ousted The Khmer Rouge from power and control over the country. Yes it was horrendous for The US to back The Khmer Rouge in any way, but their support for them did not occur during the actual Cambodian Genocide.
@the_corvid97
@the_corvid97 3 жыл бұрын
@@Philip271828 Because they were opposed to the Soviet Union and Vietnam.
@Johniue
@Johniue 4 жыл бұрын
When I entered the makeshift cells in S21, chills came up my spine, the blood splattered on the floor, it was so traumatic for me to know that my father had to go through the Khmer Rouge as a 6 year old and not remembering my dead grandfather.
@mizzouranger134
@mizzouranger134 3 жыл бұрын
Sorry that happened to your dad but why in the world is that traumatic for you? That’s called privilege that you have no concept of it. Give me a break. It’s gross really. It takes away from their experience.
@BooEntertainment2019
@BooEntertainment2019 3 жыл бұрын
@@mizzouranger134 Idk why, but I think your tone of message comes off as quite rude. If it is, have some respect.
@ian-nf9um
@ian-nf9um Жыл бұрын
​@@mizzouranger134 dick head it's the person's father's he can feel how he likes.sorry for your family's pain
@dodge96neon
@dodge96neon 4 жыл бұрын
i remember in the late 1970's that there were many cambodians fleeing cambodia by boat and jane fonda said , " why would anyone want to leave cambodia "
@KhanMann66
@KhanMann66 4 жыл бұрын
Ignorance is bliss isn’t it?
@peter-8483
@peter-8483 4 жыл бұрын
The fonda family are insane
@lel7841
@lel7841 4 жыл бұрын
Well what else expect from her? I have no idea why anyone could be a fan of hers. She's either a complete idiot easily fooled by evil men or a complicit accomplice in trying to hide their inhuman acts with gaslighting.
@UlshaRS
@UlshaRS 3 жыл бұрын
Privileged idiot and the exact kind of 'intellectual' (upperclass book smart world stupid know it all) that those regimes targeted first for extermination.
@MaD0MaT
@MaD0MaT 3 жыл бұрын
Just like modern day Hollywood praising CCP for their mass killings. Why would you flee China?
@The-Khandor-of-Kalakuta
@The-Khandor-of-Kalakuta 3 жыл бұрын
if you were herded into a camp, and the first thing you saw was a sign that read, "To save you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss", that phrase alone would make your heart sink. it's pretty much telling you your life means nothing, and your pretty much not leaving here alive...
@nathanielfamisan1968
@nathanielfamisan1968 4 жыл бұрын
"One of the great ironies of communism is that so many of its leaders came from the same privileged backgrounds that they rallied against." For once, someone finally said what must be said.
@dsnodgrass4843
@dsnodgrass4843 4 жыл бұрын
It's not that big an irony, or a revelation. Nearly all fascists and other right-wing extremist leaders are nowhere near the embodiment of the traditionalist virtues they espouse, either.
@michaelx4810
@michaelx4810 4 жыл бұрын
Not sure why you’re elated. Hardly a revelation.
@Dan16673
@Dan16673 4 жыл бұрын
Commie followers dont care because "intentions"
@AJK156
@AJK156 4 жыл бұрын
@@dsnodgrass4843 And?
@dshe8637
@dshe8637 4 жыл бұрын
That's why Trotsky proposed that those people never be allowed to establish themselves as new overlords. He was for ongoing change of individuals in decision making posts, so that the country would be managed by a wider consensus. That's why Stalin got rid of him
@superme63
@superme63 4 жыл бұрын
You can tell by the closing statement that this one really hit you in the feels, Simon. My guess is because it happened so close to the year of you being born.
@jamieschaeffer3675
@jamieschaeffer3675 4 жыл бұрын
I cried
@murlock666
@murlock666 4 жыл бұрын
Factual and delivered brilliantly. Definately one of your best Simon. Keep up the good work. More presentations like this might just help prevent it in the future. Very moving.
@knightrider693
@knightrider693 4 жыл бұрын
He's become one of my favorite sources for history
@lunameanstarsdraws8683
@lunameanstarsdraws8683 3 жыл бұрын
My Boyfriend is half Cambodian, his mother escaped Cambodia and this genocide, and ended up where I live. I cannot say how thankful I am for her escaping this, and coming here, otherwise I wouldn’t have my wonderful baby. Without this video I wouldn’t have even known this had happened. Thank you Simon, thank you
@jummalinio2610
@jummalinio2610 Жыл бұрын
you ưhore
@jummalinio2610
@jummalinio2610 Жыл бұрын
your boyfriend's family were the KILLERS
@jummalinio2610
@jummalinio2610 Жыл бұрын
your sleeping witha genocider
@swiss.2916
@swiss.2916 4 жыл бұрын
Simon, your closing was the most impressive thing I have heard in a year. The most presidential sounding commentary I have heard in an even longer time. Thank you.
@cindyr2951
@cindyr2951 4 жыл бұрын
This is by far your most powerful video across all your channels. Well done Simon, to show us history and currant tragedies.
@murlock666
@murlock666 4 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@TheAshleyYoyo
@TheAshleyYoyo 4 жыл бұрын
A chilling get brutally honest message at the end there. And my biggest respect to you for not ending with the “so I hope you found that video interesting if you did hit the thumbs up” outro. It would have been disrespectful to the education we all got and you kept it respectful throughout. Respect ✊🏽
@misterhat5823
@misterhat5823 4 жыл бұрын
And he spared us from the mid-video infomercial.
@TheAshleyYoyo
@TheAshleyYoyo 4 жыл бұрын
Mister Hat Very true, he didn’t have to but he did. Classy move all round from Simon
@Masterdeber
@Masterdeber 3 жыл бұрын
ikr it’s so disrespectful and typical when history youtube channels end their videos with “please like and subscribe” after discussing a tragic genocide
@AkurA30
@AkurA30 4 жыл бұрын
A terrible part of history... Just wish more people knew about it
@gangsterpenguin8709
@gangsterpenguin8709 4 жыл бұрын
also kinda funny
@tsartomato
@tsartomato 4 жыл бұрын
inb4 asian camps in usa
@VNYoshi
@VNYoshi 4 жыл бұрын
From my POV, it was covered up. The US supported the Khmer Rouge (see: Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge - wikipedia). They went as far as using the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia as an excuse to place an embargo on Vietnam. For more people to know, is to acknowledge that the West willingly backed a genocidal regime out of convenience. Which as you could imagine, fat chance.
@Assassinus2
@Assassinus2 4 жыл бұрын
Nyan Nyan And yet thoroughly unsurprising. If anything, I rather feel that more knowledge of this would lead to more Tuol Slengs popping up, especially in the United States.
@glitchass
@glitchass 4 жыл бұрын
I remember exactly when and where I was when I found out about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. I'll never forget how shocked I was when my dad told me about it. I was in middle school at the time, 7th grade I think. I'd heard the song Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys tons of times, being a punk fan, but I'd never made the effort to read up on the meaning behind it. It shocked me to think that something so horrible and of such a large scale could have happened in the 70s, but I guess being a 13 year old, I wasn't the most informed anyway. For the rest of middle school and high school, the Cambodian genocide wasn't mentioned once in any of my social studies/history classes. We learned nothing about it at all. In fact, I learned more about the existence of the Japanese internment camps in my freshman year English class while reading Farewell to Manzanar than I did in my US history class. When I took that class my sophomore year, there was, and I shit you not, ONE entire sentence about the camps in our textbooks. One. It's frightening to think about how many people still are unaware of the atrocities that have happened in recent history, and the ones that are occurring right now. I never learned about he Armenian genocide until I looked up the meaning behind the song Holy Mountains by System of a Down a few years ago. There are still so many awful parts of history that everyone needs to be informed of, myself included. I apologize for the wall of text, but your comment really put it best.
@crumptonemma
@crumptonemma 4 жыл бұрын
Your ending monolog was amazing. Thank you for continuing to cover pieces of history that seem to be swept under the rug.
@darrienscott7048
@darrienscott7048 4 жыл бұрын
When I was stationed in Japan as an aircraft mechanic for the AF I would often travel to the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and more but Cambodia definitely stood out. I went to the "Killing School". It was insane. They did tours and you can still see blood stains in the rooms. There was also a tree that clearly was beat on and would grow bark on certain parts. The guide told us that they used that tree to bash babies against until they were dead. I couldnt continue the tour cause I kept picturing the babies. Till this day I randomly picture it and the BOOM! I see this video.
@jamesclendon4811
@jamesclendon4811 4 жыл бұрын
A small blessing: today, Sept 01, 2020 the announcement has been made that Duch has just died at age 77.
@pyromania1018
@pyromania1018 4 жыл бұрын
@Dominic No grave. Thanks to COVID, he was cremated and hastily buried.
@pyromania1018
@pyromania1018 4 жыл бұрын
@@Amlaeuxrai I don't know if it is.
@epajarjestys9981
@epajarjestys9981 4 жыл бұрын
For being one of the few who genuinely regretted his own atrocities, did not justify or downplay anything, and provided detailed records of what happened, I hope he is headed for better destinations. No one can escape his karma. But some can learn.
@pyromania1018
@pyromania1018 4 жыл бұрын
@@epajarjestys9981 I don't think he genuinely regretted anything. He probably hoped it would allow him to avoid capital punishment.
@GleichUmDieEcke
@GleichUmDieEcke 4 жыл бұрын
And on that day, he finally became a good communist.
@lauren9667
@lauren9667 4 жыл бұрын
Your videos have made me laugh, they’ve educated me, they’ve even made me shake my head at people’s foolishness, but this was the first one to make me grieve for humanity. While you were listing the places where atrocities were currently being committed in the closing message, I was able to list a few more...
@bchin4005
@bchin4005 4 жыл бұрын
Not to take away from any of the atrocities mentioned, but it's disturbing how Rawanda never seems to make it on the lists of modern genocides.
@ThePhantomSafetyPin
@ThePhantomSafetyPin 4 жыл бұрын
I feel privileged to have learned about the Rwandan Genocide in 7th grade. It's important, and nobody, nobody talks about it. Tragic. Same with Cambodia's killing fields.
@SA-5247
@SA-5247 4 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure what you mean? It’s taught in every public school and a movie was made about it.
@rejvaik00
@rejvaik00 3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the Rohingya genocide Which strangely enough Nobel peace prize winner Aang San Syu Kyi went before the International Court of Justice to defend the Burma military from accusations of genocide in 2019
@starrchild254
@starrchild254 3 жыл бұрын
People seem to forget the irish genocide as well even though a million people died
@starcraftplayer7084
@starcraftplayer7084 3 жыл бұрын
Uganda too... 😢 almost half a million were killed under that idiot general.
@captainkavi
@captainkavi 4 жыл бұрын
I was at S21, two years ago , it left a indelible impression on me - you can see everything right there in front of you, the same exact beds people were tied to in the same rooms, the marks on the walls and the old faded paint, the photos the journalist took when he discovered the place are truly shocking. But there are beautiful flowering bushes and trees in the courtyard and the whole neighbourhood is actually very nice. I found it one of the most important but disturbing places i have ever visited and i've travelled widely and seen a fair amount over the years. this place really starkly reminds you that we are all much closer to total chaos and a loss of humanity and morals than most people realise. The cambodian people are really wonderful kind and compassionate and the country is beautiful to visit, id consider living there to be honest, it will never cease to cause me such conflicting emotions that this could have happened here and what the country and people have been through to still keep smiling
@nah-y4e
@nah-y4e 4 жыл бұрын
Liar
@captainkavi
@captainkavi 4 жыл бұрын
@@nah-y4e why would you say that? seems a strange statment and out of no where... i was indeed at S21 2 years ago, why would i lie about that or how it made me feel?
@titanicwang2044
@titanicwang2044 4 жыл бұрын
History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.
@nessmess500
@nessmess500 3 жыл бұрын
Great quote!
@roo5940
@roo5940 3 жыл бұрын
History doesn’t repeat itself, but human behavior does
@robertomanalo6346
@robertomanalo6346 3 жыл бұрын
You fool what mean History doesnt repeat itself . It repeat and judge itself it happen again in China in the Xinjiang region were Muslim Uighur have been Genocide the way Pol Pot did in Cambodia
@robertomanalo6346
@robertomanalo6346 3 жыл бұрын
Titanic Wang you are a Wacko and Weird about your statement
@roo5940
@roo5940 3 жыл бұрын
@@robertomanalo6346 no you are! Lol
@j.a.weishaupt1748
@j.a.weishaupt1748 4 жыл бұрын
Please never stop this collaboration with Morris M. Thank you for always writing thrilling stories with your typical weird sense of humor.
@bellacarow3605
@bellacarow3605 4 жыл бұрын
That ending!!! I love this channel, love the videos and most importantly, the candid way you explain history. It's not enough to know that it happened, we must admit it can happen again so we can take action against atrocities like this.
@tistedmentality3715
@tistedmentality3715 4 жыл бұрын
You should look up what the Chinese are doing to the Uyghurs people. That is one that should unite the people of earth against chit he CCP.
@DriftedVisionMan
@DriftedVisionMan 4 жыл бұрын
Or Tibetans
@--enyo--
@--enyo-- 4 жыл бұрын
Sadly we all know these days, but nobody can do anything about it. 😔
@neighborhoodcatlady6094
@neighborhoodcatlady6094 4 жыл бұрын
The photos that we’re recently published. Looks like they were taken from a Nazi concentration camp. Seeing the prisoners next to the train cars. I have heard that they also have an airstrip and medical facility nearby for transplants. Evil.
@khrashingphantom9632
@khrashingphantom9632 4 жыл бұрын
tisted mentality Well the Uyghurs are a Chinese Muslims so people have been primed to not care about them and mass news media not cover their plight. (In the U.S at least.) Especially now.
@reeeteee2526
@reeeteee2526 4 жыл бұрын
Brandon Toad China Uncensored has done videos on these camps. Highly recommended.
@jaxxii
@jaxxii 4 жыл бұрын
My professor talked about this in class today, so when I saw this in my recommended I was honestly so surprised. This video was very informative/clarifying.
@NR23derek
@NR23derek 4 жыл бұрын
Almost certainly the best, most informative video you have made Simon. I visited this place in 1993, shortly after Cambodia opened to tourists and I can honestly say I came away terrified at what I'd seen. In one room was a large display of passport style photos of the victims and one in particular caught my eye, a teenage kid with a terrified expression that spoke volumes. I saw ghosts that day and will never forget it. Thank you.
@OF01975
@OF01975 4 жыл бұрын
One of the senior leaders, Duch just died this morning
@jasonnoghani7116
@jasonnoghani7116 4 жыл бұрын
Good, may that bastard burn in hell - love from Kampot!
@blerp6675
@blerp6675 4 жыл бұрын
Good
@mitchellneu
@mitchellneu 4 жыл бұрын
Good riddance
@artemisarrow179
@artemisarrow179 4 жыл бұрын
He’s got some serious explaining to do in front of God.
@RapturianCitizen
@RapturianCitizen 4 жыл бұрын
@@artemisarrow179 Please get over your childish ideas.
@BamBoomBots
@BamBoomBots 4 жыл бұрын
I can imagine that one can only do a vid like this once in a while. However, if you can stomach it, the Jadovno and Jasenovac concentration camps are worthy of a video. Too little people know about the atrocities committed there, Heinrich Himmler and SS personnel themselves were shocked and called it 'barbarian'. Something else: save the Uighurs, bring down the CCP. As long as we look away form genocide we are not worthy of our existence as a species.
@jamieschaeffer3675
@jamieschaeffer3675 4 жыл бұрын
Please do a video. I've never heard of them and if their anything like this the world needs to know.
@johnathanblackwell9960
@johnathanblackwell9960 4 жыл бұрын
@Dylan sky It's kind of funny but the Chinese have been ethnically cleansing non han chinese for decades but people only now seem to have taken notice.
@SonofSethoitae
@SonofSethoitae 4 жыл бұрын
@@johnathanblackwell9960 People noticed when they did it to Tibet, but nobody did fuck all about it
@alistairmackintosh9412
@alistairmackintosh9412 4 жыл бұрын
Money>blood.
@JayR-wg9jq
@JayR-wg9jq 4 жыл бұрын
a video about what china is doing would be great but it would be demonitized before the guy even posted it
@quirkyMakes
@quirkyMakes 4 жыл бұрын
Finally something that has some real feeling in it. this is how the crimes of the past should be betrayed. Thank you for the video. I had no Idea about Cambodia's recent history. This is why I watch your channel. Keep up the good work.
@FourOf92000
@FourOf92000 4 жыл бұрын
In case anyone was wondering, Brother Duch died on September 8th, a couple weeks after this came out.
@marthaperdew
@marthaperdew 4 жыл бұрын
I hope he is burning in hell !
@becgould3772
@becgould3772 4 жыл бұрын
I hope it was slow and extremely painful.
@epajarjestys9981
@epajarjestys9981 4 жыл бұрын
According to Wikipedia, he died on Sept. 2. He knew he had committed unspeakable evil. He will suffer the consequences. I wish him all the best.
@SomeHomestuck
@SomeHomestuck 3 жыл бұрын
I hope he is in the deepest pits of Tartarus
@alfredrobertson7852
@alfredrobertson7852 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a rational man, but when my wife and I went to S21 in 2012, something definitely poked me hard in the chest when we were in the room at 0:24 seconds in the video. Visiting S21 is a surreal and powerful experience. Everyone we saw was crying. Its an awful and surreal and essential place to visit. The surreal part comes at the end when one of the few survivors has a table where he sells a book detailing his experiences at S21. Of course you buy it, the man is smiling and insists on taking a picture. Its clear from the pic my wife and I are fresh off an ugly crying session and there is a man, who survived the unimaginable, just beaming.
@pathallahan3016
@pathallahan3016 4 жыл бұрын
Not even mentioning a "so I hope you liked that video, if so....". I've seen others where he said something along the lines of "im not going to ask if you enjoyed that video" etc. This one he didn't even do that. Amazing ending to a well done video
@mrspock1994
@mrspock1994 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve been here...it’s very eerie, haunting...never forget it. And you’re absolutely right, Simon. That ending was spot on
@osmosis7464
@osmosis7464 4 жыл бұрын
A few years back I visited S21 and the killing fields and it was the most harrowing experiences I have ever had. There was a resident artist (one of the 12 who survived) who painted some of the most upsetting scenes you will see, such as torture and people chained in cells. The killing fields has a kind of mausoleum with row upon row of skulls and when you look in the open pits, you can see bones protruding out even now. Left as a reminder as to evil of some people. Simon's words speak true now when people who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it, particularly some of the youth of today.
@jameswight6259
@jameswight6259 3 жыл бұрын
Really appreciated that you included that conclusion/message at the end. So true and so important! Suggested follow up reading for those interested, not specifically on Cambodia but generally on the psychology of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: Obedience to Authority - the Milgram experiment, Christopher Browning - Ordinary Men, and the Zimbardo prison experiment.
@Vizaya
@Vizaya 4 жыл бұрын
It's hard for me to ask my parents about their ordeal when fleeing Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. I feel bad asking them to recall it. So thank you for this video. I've visited these places when I was 10 and couldn't fully process the immense tragedy.
@5ryans
@5ryans 4 жыл бұрын
We have a duty to learn from history so that we dont repeat it
@aaronbradley3232
@aaronbradley3232 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah but it certainly seems like we're not going to
@pyromania1018
@pyromania1018 4 жыл бұрын
No one ever follows that lesson.
@justinmeasday8930
@justinmeasday8930 4 жыл бұрын
I notice these maniac leaders were school teachers.
@anarchyantz1564
@anarchyantz1564 4 жыл бұрын
And even now we have certain groups in the "civilised" west who want to tear down and destroy history rather than leave it to learn from it.
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 4 жыл бұрын
Too late
@Jeremyramone
@Jeremyramone 4 жыл бұрын
The fact that the architects of this genocide never faced justice certainly discredits the idea of karma.
@rodchallis8031
@rodchallis8031 4 жыл бұрын
What does justice look like in these cases? To imagine a punishment that fits the crime, you have to become what they are. They all got off too easy. As they all did in Germany and Japan, too. Because the dispensers of justice in those cases were not debased degenerates. That's a hard pill to swallow, but there you have it.
@unclestoma4699
@unclestoma4699 4 жыл бұрын
@@rodchallis8031 if I was in charge Germany and Japan would not have existed after ww2 they would be erased forgotten
@27dcx
@27dcx 4 жыл бұрын
@@unclestoma4699 So you would have committed genocide against two whole populations for the actions of their governments? You really lost the message here bud.
@vincentlp115
@vincentlp115 4 жыл бұрын
@@unclestoma4699 so you are gonna turn into the very thing that they were fighting against back then? (the allies i mean)
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 4 жыл бұрын
Depends what they were reincarnated as
@ptdvll
@ptdvll 4 жыл бұрын
Cambodia is an amazing country, and for those who have not been there, please go. Go on the tour of S21 and the killing fields...after that, your life will change and you’ll have a different perspective. Cambodians are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Thanks for this video Simon, it brought back memories
@cashewnuttel9054
@cashewnuttel9054 2 жыл бұрын
Cambodia is an amazing country If they are then why are they still poor? Also no thanks, I hate traveling.
@ptdvll
@ptdvll 2 жыл бұрын
@@cashewnuttel9054 not sure why you’d waste both of our time by even replying to the comment. Furthermore go and learn about economics and how money and power works, then come back with a sophisticated comment.
@cashewnuttel9054
@cashewnuttel9054 2 жыл бұрын
@@ptdvll I don't even know why you'd waste your time to write your OP or reply to my comment to begin with. And really, that's your response? To learn about economics, money, and power? I know that in order to travel you need to be economically feasible. I do know that locals will try to squeeze as much money out of you. I do know that the locals think they have the power over you because you're a foreigner and they think you're stupid, and try to squeeze as much money out of you. Stop preaching Pete, you aren't changing the world.
@ptdvll
@ptdvll 2 жыл бұрын
@@cashewnuttel9054 for all the things you “know”, you’re quite wrong about a lot. Perhaps it’s time you get off your pedestal, and save up some money, go travel, and see the world. It’s clear you don’t know much, as you’ve called yourself out. It’s quite hysterical that wrote that response. Thanks for adding additional humour to the world. Good luck with all your keyboard warrior gigs.
@earthflash
@earthflash Жыл бұрын
Blessings for your superb overview! I visited both S21 and the Killing Fields --- and thoroughly photographed both death zones --- for my book, "There are no Foreign People." These scenes were macabre, intense, and heartbreaking --- for my spirit to record. Because of the massacres --- Cambodia seemed eerily empty of any grandparents --- when I visited in 2010. I appreciated your final warning. You are gifted at what you do, thank you. Full love and support from the Earthpeople of Hawaii
@deadflag7030
@deadflag7030 3 жыл бұрын
*"It's a holiday in Cambodia, where you'll do what you're told, it's a holiday in Cambodia, where the slums got so much soul."* -Jello Biafra
@RyanSmith-pp5hc
@RyanSmith-pp5hc 3 жыл бұрын
I lived a few blocks away from S21 for 3 years. I knew it was a place I needed to visit while I was living in Cambodia but also knew the emotional toll such an experience would take. My brother came to visit a year into me living there and the two of us went to S21. It was chilling just to walk through the gate. You could almost feel the pain and death that took place there. I would imagine it is similar to visiting Auschwitz. Definitely worth a visit. Let us never forget the atrocities human beings are capable of under the right circumstances.
@TheWeatherbuff
@TheWeatherbuff 4 жыл бұрын
Y'know. When I think about all my so-called "problems" in my life here in the USA, this puts things into perspective. Thanks Simon.
@MEZ92
@MEZ92 4 жыл бұрын
@Brandon Toad We are voting him back in. The leftists are trying to bring down the country. Even moderates who hate him don't like what the left is trying to do.
@NOOKnookCROOK
@NOOKnookCROOK 4 жыл бұрын
Release the hounds
@bluegregory6239
@bluegregory6239 Жыл бұрын
The Dead Kennedys wrote a very good song about this in 1980. The things that Gen Z and Millennials in the US complain about nowadays make me laugh out loud.
@mariuszgorski6828
@mariuszgorski6828 4 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most dark history videos from You guys... And I am Polish. I know what DARK HISTORY is...
@exlibrisas
@exlibrisas 4 жыл бұрын
Check their "cannibal island" video.
@mariuszgorski6828
@mariuszgorski6828 4 жыл бұрын
@Gipsy Danger thanx man. My sister in IRL right now and she cant say bad word about Your people. I know Your country story too. I know what English did to your country. I hope they will picture it on this channel. World need to remember who is the bad guy here. Cheers!
@mariuszgorski6828
@mariuszgorski6828 4 жыл бұрын
@@exlibrisas Saw that one too. Terrible thing did communist comit. And the saddest thing is that 99% will not be judged for what they've done.
@commentingchannel6577
@commentingchannel6577 4 жыл бұрын
@@mariuszgorski6828 communists that were supported and funded by the cia
@heavenseeker2320
@heavenseeker2320 4 жыл бұрын
commenting channel oh no not another delusional one.
@DesertFernweh
@DesertFernweh 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing timing on this Simon. Kang Kek Iew AKA Comrade Duch died a few days ago. I am sure hell has a suite waiting for him.
@singingsam40
@singingsam40 4 жыл бұрын
A heartbreaking piece of humanity's worst history, beautifully presented. Thank you Simon.
@BeezusFafoon1971
@BeezusFafoon1971 4 жыл бұрын
A powerful message. Thank you Simon, and your colleagues.
@InfamoussDBZ
@InfamoussDBZ 4 жыл бұрын
Deciding who lives and who dies is the ultimate corruption of power
@ricojes
@ricojes 4 жыл бұрын
incidentally, that's what doctors in italy had to go through when their covid cases shot past their available equipment.
@nemo7782
@nemo7782 4 жыл бұрын
@Brandon Toad Yep, don't mention the DEMOCRATIC cities they happened in.
@ThePhantomSafetyPin
@ThePhantomSafetyPin 4 жыл бұрын
@@nemo7782 It happened in NYC, in the United States, during a Republican's rule. Don't fool yourself. Blaming the left wing for everything is as foolish as blaming the right for everything.
@A_Haunted_Pancake
@A_Haunted_Pancake 4 жыл бұрын
@@ricojes Yeees, Triage (saving those you can) is the same as killing perfectly healthy people for ideological reasons ... If you're a pretentious moron.
@jamesdreads7828
@jamesdreads7828 4 жыл бұрын
What a sign off, amazing video. Great work.
@Nyctophora
@Nyctophora 4 жыл бұрын
The closing statement is what elevate this from just another history channel. Well, that and the presentation, quality and so on, but it's really such elements that shine out.
@Korilian13
@Korilian13 3 жыл бұрын
At S21 I listened to a talk by a woman who had grown up during the Khmer rouge. Before that I'd assumed that maybe if you were just a simple peasant, you might have been able to escape somewhat unscatched. But her talk showed me that they turned the whole country into a giant concentration camp. It was such a harrowing story. I'll never forget it. I definitely recomment checking out the talkd there if you have the opportunity.
@peipei4082
@peipei4082 2 жыл бұрын
Where can i watch or listen to the talk?
@Free-Bodge79
@Free-Bodge79 4 жыл бұрын
. One of the harshest and most brutal Geographic videos I've seen. What Simon says in the closing statement. Deserves to be listened too. Never a truer word spoken.!
@JustJake77
@JustJake77 4 жыл бұрын
Joining the chorus here.... That closing message though.... Well done.
@LothlorianOG
@LothlorianOG 4 жыл бұрын
The killing field was probably the most emotional place I've ever been. The museum at S21 is dark, and worth the time, but the audio tour around the killing field nearby will bring anyone to tears. The bones and clothes of children are still being washed up. The pain in that place is still palpable.
@alfredrestivo2713
@alfredrestivo2713 4 жыл бұрын
I have watched almost every video you have made on every channel you have. This was by far the most chilling narrative you have done.
@shoiyoow
@shoiyoow 2 жыл бұрын
I’m a Cambodian myself yet I don’t even know much about my own people’s history. Thank you for this, helped me a lot.
@allhailseek7795
@allhailseek7795 4 жыл бұрын
All these kids in the US need to learn stuff like this, I love how you stated the fact that all these commies come from wealthy backgrounds! Great work man
@VosperCDN
@VosperCDN 4 жыл бұрын
Sadly, history like this is not taught to any depth, if at all, in schools. So little time, and terrible events generally get a paragraph at best in some book that's studied about as much as a cereal box ingredient list.
@khrashingphantom9632
@khrashingphantom9632 4 жыл бұрын
AllHail Seek Yeah the fact that you even call them "Commies" and that is what you seemed to have latched on to in the horrific atrocities described in this video show why so few people know about this subject in the first place.
@jordan4404
@jordan4404 4 жыл бұрын
Pol Pot came from a wealthy background these people know what the end result is.
@johnathanblackwell9960
@johnathanblackwell9960 4 жыл бұрын
@@khrashingphantom9632 ...why? No one seems to have a problem teaching about the Holocaust, but for some reason they don't want to teach about de-kulakization, the holomodor, or the great leap forward. The only reason I can think of that schools seem to avoid these subjects is that they are trying to obscure the atrocities committed by one ideology while highlighting another.
@mopar_dude9227
@mopar_dude9227 4 жыл бұрын
Brandon Toad if you believe what happened in Cambodia is “irrelevant history”, you are a fool, and I guess a young one at that. I know for a fact that much of world history is glossed over in schools these days. The liberal education system is too busy pushing a political agenda instead of actually teaching and giving the facts. You are obviously a product of that system, with the disrespect it does creates.
@TheStapleGunKid
@TheStapleGunKid 4 жыл бұрын
Another wonderful example of _"No really, communism isn't so bad. It will totally work this time. Our communism is better..."_
@dragonborn3609
@dragonborn3609 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's usually what tankies or Marxist Leninsts say. Although technically the khmer rouge had more fascist elements with their racial policies. I do find it ironic how the US who are supposed to he anti communist had condemned the Vietmanese invasion and had sent aid to Thailand who in turn gave it to the Khmer Rouge. Seems like it's more than "communism vs capitalism".
@TheStapleGunKid
@TheStapleGunKid 4 жыл бұрын
@@dragonborn3609 Communism in general has a lot of fascist elements, since both communism and fascism both involve giving massive amounts of power to the state. It's why I find it amusing that in WW2, communists and fascists considered themselves mortal enemies.
@blakewenzhou9865
@blakewenzhou9865 4 жыл бұрын
More like: "last time wasn't REAL communism, it was too tainted by colonialism and capitalism. THIS TIME is actual really REAL communism, you can tell because it's working out pretty well. Unless it starts to get worse in the future because the country has run out of rich people to steal from, and you have already printed way too much money, then it's not real communism again"
@amanb8698
@amanb8698 4 жыл бұрын
The US and Nazi Germany both had Capitalist economies during WW2. The Vietnamese Communists literally threw Pol Pot out of power. The USA literally gave Pol Pot support and funding initially. He was a CIA assest at first, because the Khmer Rogue hated Vietnam. So your point?
@blakewenzhou9865
@blakewenzhou9865 4 жыл бұрын
@@amanb8698 no Germany had a fascist economy, privately owned, but tightly controlled by the government, telling them what to make, how much, and even what their employees earned, that economic model used to be considered a part of fascism. You mentioned that the US had concentration camps in WWII (which are not death camps btw). The difference with the communist governments, is that they killed millions of people for having slight differences in opinion, for being intellectuals, being land owners, or just supporting a past regime, OR even just wanting to protect your culture and history (china's cultural revolution) while a bunch of brain washed teenagers try to destroy it. I know the US has killed people, a lot of people, but not like that, not using teenagers as a weapon against their own helpless people, it's bone chilling what happened in places like s21. It's disappointing that your addled brain can't tell the difference between the 2, and informative.
@Ifyourewrongillletyouknow
@Ifyourewrongillletyouknow 4 жыл бұрын
I watched an older video of yours called “10 lies you’re told about the American slave trade” could you do a video on the “Arab slave trade” as its very rarely spoken about. Thanks
@Ifyourewrongillletyouknow
@Ifyourewrongillletyouknow 4 жыл бұрын
Might have found ano older video that kind of answers my question 🤣🤣🤣
@beakytzw
@beakytzw 4 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the most powerful videos you have made Simon. Thank you.
@scottanderson5990
@scottanderson5990 4 жыл бұрын
The ending was so well written. Thanks for this video.
@jonatanmarklund7473
@jonatanmarklund7473 4 жыл бұрын
Millenials using the phrase "let's smash" took a dark turn there. As a history nerd and teacher, thinking I might use it in my class.
@juliusraben3526
@juliusraben3526 4 жыл бұрын
Also the type of daydreaming about revolution :P ?
@tomfrazier1103
@tomfrazier1103 4 жыл бұрын
"Smash" shows up first in Soviet Russia around 1920, and was a go-to concept for the remainder of Soviet, and other Communist history. Present day University Communist cheerleaders still parrot it.
@skywallke
@skywallke 4 жыл бұрын
Are you allowed to teach the truth about this horror? Nonetheless the United States and the United Nation has supported Pol Pot and condemned the Vietnamese for their liberation of Cambodia.
@jeremiahcherry5283
@jeremiahcherry5283 4 жыл бұрын
You’re going to smash your students? Either way man.. thats bad.
@Kneal2005
@Kneal2005 3 жыл бұрын
Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation, generation Z.
@Younima4
@Younima4 4 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see Geographic's, I watch. Thank you for these great videos my guy.👍
@jbeach9402
@jbeach9402 4 жыл бұрын
Truly horrifying. We need more stories like this because we can not and must not forget what people are capable of. Please keep up the great channels and incredible stories to help educate and remember those who suffered in places like this.
@CambodiaCubAdventures
@CambodiaCubAdventures 11 ай бұрын
Ive got quite an interesting story for you, if youre still reading this. Ive been in Cambodia for 14 years. A very good friend of mine was raised and lived in a village called Phkoam as a child. When she was young in the very early nineties, her family would leave her with the next door neijghbour when they went out to work on the rice fields. She said he was a pleasant firm but fair man and he was a teacher at the local school. But pretty respected in the community. In about 92ish some people broke into his hpuse in the night and mirdered gis wife in jer sleep. The nice teacher vanished shortly after. Obviously this caused some major concern in the village, but the kind hearted school teacher actually turned put to be Comrade Duch. He was the main leader at the S21 torture prison during the Khmer Rouge era, and was in hiding from both the authorites and PolPot, as he hadnt done a good enough kob of destrying the records at S21.
@NastyMister
@NastyMister 3 жыл бұрын
This channel has opened my eyes to a lot of things. Your reporting style is on point.
@sada1504
@sada1504 4 жыл бұрын
There was a Cambodian boy in my kindergarten class. I don't remember him well, we weren't friends, but I remember that he was a refugee, or his parents were, or something (ca. 2004). That kid taught me that people can be evil, just by existing.
@pyromania1018
@pyromania1018 4 жыл бұрын
They had four interrogation units: 1) The Cold Unit, AKA the "gentle" unit, which was for questioning and was not allowed to use torture 2) The Hot Unit, AKA the "cruel" unit, for prisoners who withstood the cold unit 3) The Chewing Unit, for particularly resilient prisoners--essentially Room 101 4) The Political Unit, for political prisoners, obviously
@tomfrazier1103
@tomfrazier1103 4 жыл бұрын
Those Communists love their euphemisms. They loved the word "Smash" in Communism. It shows up first in Soviet Russia.
@OriginalBongoliath
@OriginalBongoliath 3 жыл бұрын
Like "Bash the Fash"
@tomfrazier1103
@tomfrazier1103 3 жыл бұрын
@@OriginalBongoliath That seems redolent of American advertising rhymes, and also just sounds dumb, a reflection on Leftist revolutionary fantasy.
@krisaaron8180
@krisaaron8180 3 жыл бұрын
Euphemisms are great: they make violence so much easier. My current favorite in American society is "no justice no peace". It translates to loot and burn down businesses and homes and attack/kill people, and it's not our fault.
@KaiBrunk125
@KaiBrunk125 3 жыл бұрын
@@krisaaron8180 I know right? Ridiculous how long the police have gotten away with it.
@sirapple589
@sirapple589 3 жыл бұрын
Kai Brunk Your reply doesn’t make sense given what Kris said. Kris’ reply doesn’t mention the police doing anything, therefore your reply is playing off of a statement that doesn’t support it.
@milly-moo9056
@milly-moo9056 3 жыл бұрын
I have come across your channel by pure fluke. I'm hooked and subscribed xx wish you was my geography teacher back in the 90s.
@Vrani2110
@Vrani2110 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another informative video Simon! Not sure if this is already on a list of possible future videos, but I would very much like to see a video on either Auswichtz or Tereschenstadt (Been to the latter 3 times by now in my 30 years, and I remain deeply touched after each visit to this day.)
@tuliko8678
@tuliko8678 4 жыл бұрын
Heavy words at the end there mate. I have been to S21 and the Killing Fields. I had no idea it was a school until I stepped into the courtyard. Being a teacher myself this made me sick to the stomach. To see Something as innocent as the swing set converted into a torture rack. I was blessed to meet one of the survivors there, Chum Mey. I gave him a big hug. He lost everyone in his family, and he can still smile. ❤️❤️
@TheBlueB0mber
@TheBlueB0mber 4 жыл бұрын
0:18 Contractor #1: Hey guys, there is supposed to be a door here Contractor #2: Ummm... sledgehammer?
@norezenable
@norezenable 4 жыл бұрын
lol noticed the same thing.
@Mememeep
@Mememeep Жыл бұрын
I went to Cambodia after reading a story about the survivor of Khmer Rouge on Reader's Digest. I cried so much when I read the story... I went to S21, it was really sad and scary. I really cannot imagine how horrible it was for the victims. I met one of the few survivors, who was a painter at S21. And when I see older or middle aged Cambodians, it will remind me of the horrible years they had endured.. just make you think that how can a human did that to another human being?
@amaralim3809
@amaralim3809 Жыл бұрын
You are absolutely right. Committing such horror is beyond imagination. I have no word to say. It's not even comparable to any animal. Sufferings and angers always remain inflamed in me, until I do not see a single benefit of being born into this world.
@brennanhuard966
@brennanhuard966 3 жыл бұрын
This deserves a rewatch. Thank you for making this episode.
@karlallspach5309
@karlallspach5309 3 жыл бұрын
I'm slowly working my way through all the content on this channel. Really addictive and never fails to amaze. Excellent work!
@Netgear1968
@Netgear1968 4 жыл бұрын
I visited S21 back in 2004 with a friend who’s family is Cambodian, will never forget that place
@Timthevapeman44
@Timthevapeman44 3 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch a video like this I see history on the verge of repeat.
@MisterKnightly
@MisterKnightly 4 жыл бұрын
I go from Business Blaze to Geographics and goddamn if Simon isn't the King of All KZbin.
@GrecuDragos
@GrecuDragos 4 жыл бұрын
That was such a heartbreak video. Thank you for this presentation. the world needs to learn from past mistakes
@vchin6596
@vchin6596 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. It is well researched and narrated. My family and I suffered this unspeakable genocide. My uncle and his entire family were exterminated during one of Khmer Rouge’s roundups. Painful period. Painful memories.
@notmaireelneim
@notmaireelneim 4 жыл бұрын
WTF? Where was my SquareSpace ad? I skipped ahead as usual and missed the first minute of the video.
@thihienmainguyen4314
@thihienmainguyen4314 Жыл бұрын
A revealing question .... Who supported Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge to the bitter end ? # First, it's China - Directing, encouraging and supporting them to wipe Cambodia clean of Cambodians, making it ready for Chinese advisors, soldiers, workers, and settlers to flood in and turn it into another XinJiang (a China's conquered province) # Next, USA - Supporting and using Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (plus prodding Deng XiaoPing's China) to exact revenge on the Vietnamese who had dared to shoot down their B52s and kick the American new colonialists who were taking on the mantle of the French old colonialists, out of their country Vietnam # Then, Thailand, Singapore, .... - Lackeys following orders from the USA (and from China's in the case of Singapore) # Lastly, UK, Australia, .... - USA's vassals.
@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel
@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel 3 ай бұрын
All your comments are 💯 percent correct: it's too bad that the USA nearly always gets all the blame for this ( yes, they are very guilty) but China supplied the weapons, a billion dollars worth in 1975 alone. Most people don't even know this, or they are too scared to "offend" China.
@cryptoenthusiast724
@cryptoenthusiast724 4 жыл бұрын
''Georgraphics'' you inspired us to start our KZbin Journey!🙏
@Younima4
@Younima4 4 жыл бұрын
To make click bait top 10 videos? I doubt it.
@VB-dx8dh
@VB-dx8dh 4 жыл бұрын
Nice work Simon, Morris, and Shell. Way to wrap it up Simon. Truly disturbing and sad that humans are capable of such atrocities.
@sol029
@sol029 2 жыл бұрын
The last few seconds... that's everything. Thanks. love your content
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