Utopia Through Genocide - The Horror of Tuol Sleng S-21 (Cambodia Khmer Rouge) 1975 Pol Pot

Throughout history there have been many, many instances of the loss of humanity. This is the tale of one such instance - the brutality and inhumanity of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. We need to remember history like this, to ensure it is not repeated....
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[@BugnBuddysMom]

"Then you're evil, and you're wrong." Perfectly said.

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

You beat me to it. 😅😊

[@syntaxsquid4882]

Have actually been to Cambodia and seen this place first hand. Got to speak to one of the survivors who I bought a memoir from. My favourite memory is that amongst all the horror there is a small alcove underneath a staircase at the back of a building, only accessible by climbing thru what was once a vent hole, there are messages scribbled across every wall, in every conceivable language preaching words of peace and unity.

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

I have met that man too and have his book! 👍

[@indigohammer5732]

Didn't do any good, did it?

[@SexRealist301]

​@@indigohammer5732 It never does.

[@garrettmetting6938]

What's the memoir called

[@regiluthfi]

"unity" sounds like motivation for every communists to justify their action

[@relwalretep]

Dear Raven, this must have been a more difficult video to produce than usual. Thank you very much for not letting this horror be forgotten. xo

[@terencehill2320]

Peter we know you like men but this topic has been covered in more detail with more graphics than this but I like what he has done here with this. It was done with class atleast.

[@relwalretep]

@@terencehill2320 I'm trying to imagine you getting up in the morning and deciding "oh yeah this is what I'm going to do with my life"

[@Harley-and-Her-Ruff-Riders]

@@relwalretep Thanks for that good laugh. Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out what Terence even meant.

[@theravenseye9443]

Thank you!

[@eve__________]

We read “First They Killed My Father” in senior year of HS, one of the best and most memorable books I’ve read. I recommend that book to all of y’all as well

[@ankokunokayoubi]

Have you watched the movie as well?

[@mauricedavis2160]

Thank you, I'll have to check the book out!!!🙏😢❣️

[@eve__________]

@@ankokunokayoubi I have not

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

The terrifying thing is that a lot of the guards etc from here and the killing fields etc are still alive and living in their original villages facing zero punishment.

[@eadweard.]

Don't see an FFFB reference every day.

[@is2m2ed25]

One of them rules this country until now.

[@borntoclimb7116]

So true

[@TracyA123]

Imagine being arrested and sentenced to death for wearing glasses. It almost doesn't seem real but it certainly was. Horror on an industrial scale. God help us. This is a relatively forgotten Period of time. Many people couldn't tell you who Pol Pot was. That is a tragedy on its own. Tough subject matter my friend it couldn't have been easy to make this video. Thank you for going thru that.

[@bawsack69]

Imagine the same ideology now dominates western education systems.

[@GoViking933]

Yep.. look stupid or die I guess hey.. Terrible.

[@ididyermom3273]

Maoism. Mao and his equally evil wife did the same. They attacked teachers as well.

[@leeking4205]

Evil still goes on like that today, in Iran you will be arrested and quite possibly die for not covering your hair, the level of insanity still going on in the 21st century is quite extraordinary.

[@saragalliard2532]

I wear the glasses but i am not that smart. 💀

[@fahrenheit2530]

When I was a teenager I bought a CD of Cambodian rock music to listen to while I drove my truck, and it started an interest in learning about Cambodia, especially its culture and transportation industry. It appears that in the 1950's, 60's, and the early 70's, Cambodia was experiencing rapid cultural and technological growth, and the Cambodians looked to western countries as an example of what their country would someday look like. That came to a grinding halt in 1975 with the rise of Pol Pot's regime. The negative consequences that the Khmer Rouge's regime still carry on, it took much of the 80's and a bit of the 90's for Cambodia to rebuild its infrastructure and population. Cambodian music certainly reflects this change, prior to the genocide, the tone of the music was optimistic and upbeat, while during the 80's it took a turn to sound more foreboding and gritty, but overall sad in the sense that the people there knew what they had lost. Cambodia is still suffering from extreme corruption, and crime runs rampant while the average person suffers. Had things not taken the turn that they did in the 70's Cambodia would certainly be a much nicer place, perhaps similar to modern day India or the Philippines. Pol Pot isn't usually the guy that comes to mind when one thinks of the worst dictatorships, but the brutality of his regime, and its lasting consequences, put him up there with the worst of the worst.

[@jamesbugbee9026]

By percentage, PolPot could B the recordholder

[@samwindmill8264]

Have you ever seen "Don't Think I've Forgotten"? One of the saddest documentaries when you think about how Cambodia went from such a vibrant place to utter destruction, and how all these charismatic artists and musicians were slaughtered

[@fahrenheit2530]

@@samwindmill8264 nah but I'll have to check it out. Sounds interesting.

[@Karen-yr3fb]

Cambodia wasn't rebuilding it's infrastructure during the 80s and 90s as it was still at war till 96 with 4 fighting factions involved.But over the last 28 years it has come on a long way that the UN is taking it off it's list of third world countries.

[@TabuKat]

"Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that." Eddie Izzard

[@MrMirville]

Stalin died in his bed while ordering and managing a campaign of extermination more specifically aiming at Jews (he was not against them as such but he judged they had outlived their usefulness as good revolutionaries) and probably for being poisoned by one Jewish doctor among the prime targets.

[@venturatheace1]

How did Mao die?

[@TabuKat]

@@venturatheace1 In a comfy bed, after two heart attacks, while thousands mourned the man who was literally responsible for the murder of millions of their countrymen. Pretty wild.

[@pauloalvesdesouza7911]

Unfortunately history is full of horrific events that must be labelled with a "never forget" tag. Thanks for the work of putting them together for us.

[@DR3ADER1]

This is tragically ironic, considering that humans, like all animals, are very "forgive and forget" as far as individual sensibilities go. Meaning that despite our "never forget" vows, we ALWAYS forget and ignore the lessons of the past, because it's easier and less taxing on the mind to keep all of these errors in our memory. And it comes with the cost of repeating them over and over again.

[@pauloalvesdesouza7911]

@@DR3ADER1 I have to agree, unfortunately forgetting and repeating is the norm. But those of us who don't do either should persevere in keeping the memories and lessons fresh and alive.

[@user-lc5uh4ic1z]

no one would ever forget any of it lmao, it's retarded anyone thinks events like these will be forgotten

[@johnbowman1076]

Or else... "Never Again." But it always happens again. The West barely paid attention while 3 million people were slaughtered.

[@charlesclager6808]

The movie "The Killing Fields" tells an excellent horror of the pol pot regime by a survivor, Haing Ngor as noted . Highly recommend this movie. I could never understand why the American government was against Viet Nams invasion of Cambodia which ended this tragic story. Well done. I am a new subscriber to your channel.

[@tosyl_chloride]

Pretty simple, really. The Khmer Rouge regime was one of China's pawns in a combined Chinese-American effort to "squeeze Vietnam dry" following the Vietnam war (yes, the US was *that* bitter) while also forming a united anti-Soviet front. Basically, China would support the Khmer Rouge regime to attack Vietnam from the south, while itself applied pressure from the north and simultaneously standing off against the Soviet Union; in return, the US would provide economical support and trade benefits to China as they're facing a common enemy, the Soviets. In this geopolitical chessboards, Cambodia and Vietnam were treated as pawns by the major powers, and millions of innocent people were grinded to death in each moves of the pieces.

[@samwindmill8264]

ABC News ran a series called "The Eagle and the Bear" back when the Cold War was ending, and the episode about Cambodia closed with the narrator's line: "Cambodia: a nation destroyed in the conflict between the eagle and the bear"

[@terryt5512]

The faces of those poor doomed souls in those pictures literally made me cringe. I've seen The Killing Fields several times, and consider it one of the best films ever made. I think the fact that most of the people who committed these atrocious and hellish acts and facilitated Pol Pot's hell on earth walked away practically scot-free, is nearly as big of an atrocity. For them to be so readily forgiven and allowed to just carry on with their lives with barely a slap on the wrist is just beyond incomprehensible. Thanks, Raven's Eye, for not permitting this to be forgotten.

[@subnormality5854]

It's this type of video where KZbin should make an exception to their anti-violence policy. These are the type of painful events that needs to be remembered - to forget is to forgive.

[@willdunn8846]

Forgotten indeed. As somebody who considers themselves a history buff, I was shaken by the realisation that I know next to nothing about Pol Pot and his crimes. His reign was tucked up in the back of my head, just another ruthless tin pot dictator who only got some attention because Cambodia borders Vietnam. Thank you Mr Raven.

[@mogyesz9]

What is even more forgotten the ideological support these animals got from western communist "intellectuals".

[@shduckman]

I feel the same way. I had next to no knowledge on Pol Pot, and the crimes against humanity he was responsible for - And as a father, seeing all these photos of children, who have just been straight up murdered and tortured, is devastating - I can litereally not think of anything worse. The fact that he was allowed to die naturally, in freedom, is just appalling.

[@elliottprice6084]

The saddest part of this shocking event in history is how the perpetrators got away scott free. And it's sad that this has become faded to the mists of time

[@DR3ADER1]

That's the reality of being a War Criminal. Hell, even when they get caught, they live in rather nice and comfortable conditions in the international prisons in the Nederlands. Even Supermax prisons are considered hotels compared to common criminal prisons in North America, the British Isles and Mainland Europe.

[@RedHazeCh]

The hard pill to swallow is that despite knowing the nature of pol pot's genocidal regime a lot of western power supported them direct or indirectly to either make a profit or drag Vietnam into a costly war just like the Soviet in Afghanistan. The demons who do their bidding will be rewarded and absolved from the horrible things that they've ever done

[@GooseGumlizzard]

even Pol Pot got off easy

[@DC4260Productions]

I can describe the Khmer Rouge with just two words - truly despicable. I can also tell from Raven's voiceover that he's having a hard time explaining what happened, and I don't blame him at all. (09:15 - I can't look at that picture without feeling uneasy, to say the least).

[@terryt5512]

Add demonic, depraved, or even beyond evil. There's no set of words that can adequately describe this atrocity. The Lucifer Effect at its most awful extreme.

[@thebyrd433]

The number of people who believe that education is unnecessary, and 'intellectuals' are the enemy is truly frightening. It's attitudes like that that allow monstrosities like this to grow and flourish.

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

Spot on. And it's evil bastards like Pol Pot, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Marine LePen and Jair Bolsonaro that orchestrate the violence..

[@thebyrd433]

@@XXSkunkWorksXX Yes, they do. There is so often a cultish element to it. I guess soul-less losers who think these atrocities are okay need a figurehead to give them an excuse. Not to mention someone to blame when they get shut down and start whining about how they were only following orders.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

Pol Pot was the most hardline radical communist you can imagine, his ideal country was a 100% populace of illiterate farmers, people who were educated were seen as a threat to this. It happened to a lesser degree in the USSR and China during their "great leaps forward" as well.

[@sa_exploder]

You know what’s crazy? It’s apparent that this isn’t widely known. Other than a couple pop culture references here and there, I knew next to nothing about Pol Pot and the Cambodian Genocide until my junior year in college. Not a single paragraph about it in US high school history texts. It’s insanity, literally - if we don’t learn from history, we’re doomed to repeat it.

[@fahrenheit2530]

We learned about the Cambodian genocide in depth during my high school history class, along with the war in Vietnam and the bombing of Laos. It wasn't as in depth as the lessons on World War 2, but at least we learned about it.

[@BugnBuddysMom]

I remember First Lady Roslynn Carter talking about it in a PSA. Showing my age.

[@avamasquerade]

If we know about history we can't be ideologically manipulated to repeat it, this is why education (specifically critical thinking which is an inoculation against the logical fallacies that pervade many ideologies) is always the first on the firing line.

[@guitarpick2002]

I first heard about the Cambodian Genocide and Pol Pot via the Dead Kennedys song "Holiday In Cambodia".

[@nwagner643]

@@avamasquerade yes, but the teaching of history can be manipulated to indoctrinate a population. We are not taught objective history in the US. We are taught the propaganda that drills into our heads that the US government, an oligarchy, is a force for good all over the world, when in fact our military and CIA are the driving force behind most destabilisation and death all over the world. The US overthrows any world leader attempting to share the wealth of its country with its own citizens, kicking out the corrupt Western corporations that steal the wealth of their country for pennies on the dollar. The US has a history of arming, training and supporting right wing warlords, death squads, or authoritarian leaders in coups of governments not willing to sell out their own country to US oligarchs. On top of that, we have a history of creating a boogie man in a country with untapped resources that we’re later told we have to invade and occupy. We installed Sadam Husain, giving him a list of communists to execute, then have him weapons (including mustard gas) to fight Iran (and the Kurds). We created, armed and trained al Qaeda. Starting in the 1930’s, US oligarchs supported Hitler and the Nazis from their rise, through the war and beyond. Standard oil (Rockefeller) supplied them with oil. It was proven that the Bush, Koch, Ford and DuPont families worked with and profited from the Nazis and the free labor in the concentration camps during WW2. After the war, US spies helped high ranking Nazis escape so they could use them to overthrow leftist governments all over the world. Like Klaus Barbie in Argentina and Chile, or Joseph Mengele in Brazil. If your country has a military base inside of a country, they own that country. The fact that US has military bases in over 100 countries tells you how big of a colonial empire US oligarchs rule over.

[@malcnixon8256]

A truly barbaric period of recent history. How they got away with it for so long is unbelievable...

[@eddjordan2399]

Margret Thatcher actually sent the SAS to support Pol pot. i believe its the first time they have ever dis obeyed orders.

[@jackryan9045]

The simple reason is because we pulled out of Vietman and communism supported by china rolled in.

[@giantroboteyes]

@@jackryan9045 pot and the khemer rouge were funded by the US and the west. communist vietnam were the ones that liberated cambodia

[@sting114]

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrowing the king cause the Khmer Rouge rise to power

[@sixstringedthing]

Wanna hear something a bit fucked up? Amongst my parents and siblings there's a standing joke that "chicken pot pie" is referred to as "chicken Pol Pot pie", because there could be a bunch of mystery bits in it... They're not horrible people, honestly. They love each other, and properly sort their recycling and everything. But I'm pretty sure not a one of them has ever really closely examined the horrors of the Killing Fields and all the other evils enacted at the hands of that regime. It would be way too uncomfortable and icky for them. So here I am, witnessing it. We must never forget this stuff, as horrible as it is. @The Raven's Eye Thank you for your good work here, as always.

[@Youcanttouchmyhandle]

Thank you so much for covering this story 💐 RIP to all those who lost their lives ❤

[@owenfreed700]

Thank you Raven. I am a student of history and I am ashamed and at a loss for words that I had never heard of this before. Thank you for shedding light on this issue. God bless those who suffered. Thank you for your channel. That pays respects to those that we have lost into those that should be remembered.

[@benja1877]

God here ?????

[@reachandler3655]

I am truly horrified that such atrocities could take place in my lifetime and yet not be common knowledge. Thankyou for helping rectify that situation.

[@sting114]

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign and overthrowing the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

[@ZoeAlleyne]

Odd to think that I,as a 15 year old, wrote an essay about this genocide before the UN even recognised it as one. Pretty piss poor effort by the UN.

[@radio-su6lh]

Always been a pretty poor organisation thats now become a lot worse. One of its organisations the WHO is a clear case in point. Set up as a world health organisation, it now uses health issues to follow a specific political agenda.

[@samwindmill8264]

The Khmer Rouge were literally *in* the UN as part of the recognized coalition government of Cambodia til the early 90s

[@sarahr9894]

I've seen an archive of the photos and spent time between each reflecting on how this person was a full, living human with dreams and aspirations, loved ones, families, and struck down systematically by violence. Each and every one of them. It's hard to look at the photos and not think of what could have been if not for war.

[@keliciaigbinazaka4538]

Thank you for such a professional and respectful telling of this terrible tragedy. You’re videos are always amazingly researched and presented.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

I can assure you, the country I live in has always acknowledged the atrocities from day 1. We received many boat loads of Cambodians seeking asylum during this period. An Australian investigative reporter, John Pilger, made a documentary just after Pol Pot's reign of terror ended. He, and other members of the team, were the first to enter the country after Pol Pot was deposed. It was a world exclusive at the time. I remember it well. It's called 'Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia' (1979).

[@p.wynnmarkstall1737]

One of my neighbors was a Cambodian refugee. He was going through intensive therapy because he couldn’t function - a bus ride would sometimes leave him in absolute panic. The Khmer Rouge was an obscenity.

[@lyndaagnew2307]

Terrifying! Thank you for covering this point in history.

[@MrNelmo2]

It's events like this that make me think that maybe we do not deserve to be saved as a species 😕

[@davidkellogg2582]

You are so correct. Evil men like those will always get in power by whatever means it takes and they have no feelings what so ever and seem too gey pleasure out of the pain and suffering thwy cause. I do hope that thwy get their just rewards at some point in the future.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I wonder if we should be saved

[@VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

In that case there are lots of species that "do not deserve to be saved". For instance, think of all the animals who kill each others' offspring in full view of the mother, just to mate with her. Or slowly eat their prey alive. While there are horrible human beings, on the whole we are one of the good guys. The fact we are even having a discussion about helping other species is proof of that.

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

The fact that evil like this is allowed to continue throughout history is almost a proof that God doesn’t exist as surely He wouldn’t let this happen if he did.

[@spiralrose]

Name one positive impact the human species has had on the planet , and make sure it’s one that isn’t humans beings, trying to clean up the mess they made.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah I remember watching the movie The Killing Fields when I was a kid. I also remember that the main actor in it was later killed in LA.

[@LadyWhinesalot]

yes, after having survived Cambodian prison camps Haing S. Ngor, who portrayed real-life Dith Pran, was murdered in a robbery outside his home in Los Angeles in 1996.

[@samanthagomez7074]

Wow really

[@davidhynd4435]

Utterly horrendous. And, yes, especially given the sheer scale of the horror, rather forgotten. I don't remember learning about this in school but I think it should be taught. Those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it.

[@sashalove83]

What about the other genocides that have took place on this earth? Countries don't teach about their own atrocities so why would they start teaching about others?🤔

[@sting114]

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrowing the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

[@chatteyj]

Raven you are knocking it out of the park with the videos lately last weeks about the yungay incident I had zero awareness of as I didn't with this one and yet both had enormous death tolls and only took place in the 70s not that long ago, how and why do we in the west not know about these things?

[@elmin82]

Great video as always

[@RNG-999]

Thank you for this video. Lost but not forgotten.

[@Flame-Bright-Cheer]

I definitely heard some about this but nowhere near the detail the horrible horrible detail that you gave and the messed-up way I appreciate it I love your Channel

[@mjaricacat]

Very interesting and well produced! I would like to see more rare documentaries about forgotten tragedies and genocides.

[@sting114]

Watch John pilger documentary about Cambodia on KZbin. It’s one of the best from 1979

[@cosmosrunner2468]

Short and incredibly powerful video. Your work is exemplary. One like seems unfortunately lacking in appreciation.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

I had only the vaguest idea of who Pol Pot was, and who the Khmer Rouge were. My education was sorely lacking. Thanks for bringing this to a wider audience.

[@karochanyue]

This case is one of the hardest to watch in your channel but thank you so much for bringing this to light, not many ppl are aware of it. And congratulations Raven for 50k subscribers 💐👍

[@theravenseye9443]

Thank you very much!

[@sting114]

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrow the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

[@markjosephbudgieridgard]

Thank you Ravens eye I watch everyone of your videos they are excellent although the content is upsetting and often tragic. I found out so much at events that I never even knew about. Thank you so much for these videos I look forward to seeing more of them.... RIP to all the victims of the barbaric dictators and draconian regimes featured in your videos especially Cambodia and Equatorial Guinea.. Absolutely harrowing..... God bless them all 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AINGELPROJECT667]

Pol Pot may have not faced justice but at least his legacy is deserving of a despot: dying as a fugitive in his own country, his only mark on history being the shadow of evil he left behind. Better that than being seen as some great and glorious leader. Let his name never be forgotten, not as a memorial, but a warning.

[@joethebrowser2743]

1 great channel. 👍🏻🇬🇧👀.

[@jstoned88]

Very well made

[@angelawhite2022]

Imagine the pressure on that guy who was left alive to paint murals. 😓 😢 seeing what was going on around him.

[@foo219]

Given how this sort of thing happens again and again, it seems we as a species are unable to learn from history. Or we don't actually mind this sort of thing as long as it happens to someone else...

[@Fraciencwa94]

Don’t forget those who sow these types of seeds.

[@cmonkey63]

I almost didn't watch this video to the end, because the evil depicted hurt my soul so much. But I did. And you're right, there is such a thing as good and evil and so this story needs to be told. What's worse, I actually visited Cambodia a few years ago and our tuk tuk driver, an intelligent young man, described how even his nation's history had be erased. It was only due to a good teacher who had fled earlier and returned that he was able to learn about his own people and their history. I wish him well. Where there is life, there is hope.

[@gwenna1161]

nice presentation

[@davejbenson]

Went to see s21 in 2000. I pushed through a gate and went upstairs where I found boxes of human bones. Some of the femours still had the shackles on. I have some photos somewhere. It was very surreal.

[@DillyDallyLove]

An excellent documentary about one of the saddest events in human history. A belief system to improve the world can turn into this and worse... Very sad. May all of them rest in peace.

[@jasonrahrig5930]

Thank you

[@staceyobriencapozzi8422]

Excellent film on a horrible page in history. Great that you referenced THE KILLING FIELDS & Dr H. K. Book. These both inspired ......... Went to Cambodia in 2019, best people on earth.

[@PopeSixtusVI]

Numerous mistakes were made in how the US prosecuted the Vietnam War across three presidencies but my point here is that a strong stable free & independent South Vietnam would've been in a position to stop this catastrophe from ever happening.

[@donaldwobamajr6550]

That’s what the left wants you to ignore. They will blame the US for Pol Pot through half truths and misrepresentation so they can about the reality that a US victory in South East Asia would have prevented this from ever happening.

[@duonghdduong5899]

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[@mariuszszymczak3644]

Horrible story! Great video!

[@nlwilson4892]

Just a correction, the work fields weren't called the killing fields. The killing fields were 17 separate areas were people were taken to be executed, as rice paddies are sunken fields with earthen walkways / dykes around them they were knelt on the dyke and hand their throat slowing cut and were then thrown in. You can visit one where the Killing Fields museum is, you can see bits of cloth and bone in the ground. Looking across that area and knowing the bodies are piled up just under the soil about 2 metres deep is pretty horrific. If you ever needed resolve to fight to retain democracy, you'll find it there. I'll just add that S-21 has barbed wire along some of the balconies (removed from the ones shown on the video) it was to stop people jumping to kill themselves as they were taken from the cells to the torture chambers. The cell shown in the video was reserved for high ranking Khmer Rouge who had fallen out of favour. The normal prisoners where in cells about the size of a toilet cubicle, with a small channel down one side going to a hole in the wall to act as a toilet, no bed, just the floor to sleep on.

[@jasonfife6763]

Narrator said "Travesty of Justice" He has a gift of understatement.

[@Jack-tx2ve]

Fantastic mini film Mr Raven. It seems in the 20th century some lives were worth more than others. Have we learned anything?

[@jenesisjones6706]

Nope

[@chatteyj]

We can only learn if we study history.

[@spiralrose]

Things are the same today as they were in Ancient Rome, Mesopotamia, ect. This is how humans are. Sadly, this stuff will continue to happen

[@gravy_brain]

Was there last year. Unforgettable.

[@archstanton6102]

Been to those dark place. The movie/documentary on the horror there is eye opening and shocking.

[@randylahey1232]

You should do another video describing in grim detail what a stay at S21 was like I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to know and for you to be the one to tell us

[@sashalove83]

Go Google it yourself then. These are real people not a movie where you want all the juicy details. What would a video like that do or change?

[@randylahey1232]

@BIBBIDI-BOBBDI-BISH(SASHALOVE83) no I will not I want Raven's Eye to do it just like I said in my initial comment, I never asked to hear from you so why am I?

[@Turnbull50]

I fully agree with your comments and justice was not done. There must have been a lot of bribery in high places to stop any punishments.

[@peterbamforth6453]

A nice presentation Was it Hazel'o'Conner or Toyah Wilkox that performed the song Cambodia in the mid 70s?

[@ididyermom3273]

Vann Nath painted some of the horrors he witnessed. They are graphic and for some, they will give you lasting nightmares as they should so we never forget and never repeat. I have researched much about atrocities, this has to be one of the cruelest in the Post-Medieval Times.

[@alcd6333]

A brief but comprehensive summary of the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot was given a show trial in 1992 where many people accused him of atrocities, but he was not convicted of anything. He died unrepentant of what he did to Cambodia. He was not a bright person (he failed his exams in France resulting in his expulsion), which likely led to his hatred for intellectuals. Ironically, several convicted Khmer Rouge leaders were in fact educated; a couple even earned PhD s.

[@ciaobella65]

There is an amazing documentary about S21 and I believe I saw it on Amazon or Netflix. The gentleman at the beginning of this video in the mugshot is one of the only survivors that they interview

[@leehaseley2164]

I have been there, and more than just the sheer barbarity, the fact that the site was unmistakably a school, brought me to tears and I had to leave after only 15 minutes.

[@nigelsheppard625]

Kampuchea is actually what the Khmer call Cambodia. It wasn't actually imposed by the Khmer Rouge (Khmer Krahom) but they did insist that it was used in the place of the French version, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge soldiers unfortunately came from every town and village. The American bombing campaigns and invasion left a lot of orphans who were forced into being internal refugees. Some graduated towards the cities of Kompong Chom, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh others found the Khmer Rouge in the jungles of the south near Tonek or near the ancient city of Anghor. So it could well be that in one village there were Khmer Rouge cadres and "New People" come April 1975, it was just the way the cards fell. The Khmer Rouge told its cadres that the friends of the people in the cities were the ones that had bombed the country killing their parents etc. It was quite easy therefore to convince the cadres that city and town dwellers (New People) were the enemy even if those people were relatives as close as brothers and sisters.

[@chocolatechip12]

The people look so beautiful and strong in their entry photos. It's heartbreaking to see them. Thank you for shining a light on this too-often ignored part of history.

[@michaelstaunton1632]

A harrowing story 🙏🏻

[@JAY1892]

My girlfriend and I visited S21 in 2007, on exiting the building virtually in tears, a young Cambodian man asked us if we wanted to shoot an AK47 at some cattle. Unbelievable. If interested, I’d ’recommend’ a book called First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. It’s a terribly sad book yet needs to be read, if you’ll never have the opportunity to visit Cambodia and know the history. May they all rest in peace.

[@DARTHBASTARD69]

I was there today and I can’t get the feeling out of me I felt sick to my stomach!

[@appellokathy]

Boggles the mind the evil that people can engage in. Its sad, horrific.

[@Byzmax]

It is was, as you say, a terrible stain on the international community and justice overall. Ideologies a rarely a good thing in a leader but still we embrace this approach to society, just in forms that appear on the surface to be palatable.

[@sashalove83]

How was this a stain on the international community? Do you think other countries watch the coverage of this daily? Or the international community didn't fully know until after it happened? The Armenia genocide is a stain on the international community because most countries don't even recognize that it happened.

[@GoViking933]

I've visited the S-21 prison, and the killing fields. The tree where they bashed babies brains in was still standing in 2011. Looking at those pictures of those poor people is just..

[@zetectic7968]

I remember the stories coming out about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. I watched the film "The Killing Fields", it is very good but I haven't had the stomach to rewatch it. I believe that there was evidence both inside Cambodia & outside of collusion to protect Pol Pot & his henchmen from any kind of justice or retribution either from perverse religious ideas or not wanting a big trial that would show the country in a bad light. An interesting point is that it was the Vietnamese army that defeated the US that liberated Cambodia.

[@Blaklege63]

How absolutely horrible

[@McIntyreBible]

I heartily agree with your statements (10:15,11:32)!

[@waynewright5023]

"Education and intellectualism were seen as potential dangers to the Pol Pot regime.."--as soon as intellectual pursuits of any kind are deemed "a danger", *nothing* good will follow thereafter..

[@happygo1866]

God rest the victims souls. Absolutely heartbreaking to see the photos of murdered innocent children.

[@Alext165]

This is an extraordinary video and another example of how barbaric humans can be

[@Shannon_Dobbs]

Like and comment for the algorithm.

[@dennislewis9400]

Just terrible that these people mostly got away with murder on the highest degree!!!

[@sheldonwheaton881]

I always think of the song" Holiday In Cambodia " by the Dead Kennedys, when I think of this horror.

[@danbev4738]

Hard to look at those pics.

[@EpicCBgamerOfficial]

Brilliant video, thank you. I lived in SE Asia for almost 20 yrs. Their story is incomprehensible. Still amazes me how much we ignore for our convenience.

[@sashalove83]

Just like every other country that was ruled by a despot dictator. Unfortunately this story is no different then the million others like it. Who is ignoring it?

[@honeybadgerdontcare4763]

I hate censorship. The brass at KZbin needs to grow a pair

[@divineantiwokegangster]

i like the way you make your documentations, make one on the Ukraine 2014 coup that caused the Ukraine war pls

[@ThePawsOfDeception]

Such a sickening chapter of human history, made even worse by the fact that the Khmer Rouge were allowed to keep their seat at the United Nations until well into the 1990s - over a decade after they were shown to be evil murderers and deposed. I had the good fortune to be able to visit Cambodia several years ago.It's a testament to the strength and resilience of the Cambodian people that, although they obviously could never forget what happened (Pol Pot murdered a quarter of the population!), they've rebuilt their country so quickly. Perhaps not surprising for a people who created the Khmer culture a thousand or so years ago and built the astounding Angkor Wat etc. S21 is one of the most genuinely harrowing places I've ever been to. The photos don't do justice to the horror of the place. They simply show a generic modern school building that looks a bit freaky because of the barbed wire. No words or pictures can list, describe or explain the way that place feels. And although I firmly believe we should always try to focus on the happiness that life can create, remembering these disgusting displays of depravity is unfortunately important too if we're to learn from them and avoid them in the future. Thanks to Raven for keeping the story alive. I agree with you that the lack of justice from the UN is utterly abhorrent.

[@davidhill8565]

3:28 The current year on the said calendar, the Khmer Rouge Calendar, would be year 48.

[@DesertFox50]

1:34 That's speechless

[@ronaldguild3627]

Well, my evening is ruined.

[@pantherplatform]

More commonly known as _"Van Meth"_

[@corb5654]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[@JohnDoe-iq5xv]

I visited S-21 years ago and I got way more than I wished for. After that, I refuse to see any kind of places of horror (I saw Nazi camps before). No need for that; humanity has no mere secrets for me. Do not go there, if you do not have to. As I often say to my wife: you do not need to know everything...

[@HandyMan657]

It's as simple as that.

[@deanothemanc5281]

Utterly evil, and to all purposes they got away with it. Disgraceful tbh. Surviving the killing fields is well worth reading, but it's both disturbing and harrowing.

[@barbaralamson7450]

👍 I believe I've heard enough. I doubt I could tolerate a more detailed account. I do agree with you. Shame on the international community. Shame on everyone for brushing this aside.

[@sashalove83]

Are you new to earth? This isn't new. How is this brushed to the side & your watching a video about it? These stories have been told. Movies have been made.

[@barbaralamson7450]

@@sashalove83 And nothing changes.

[@DesertFox50]

9:52 fear in their eyes

[@mauricedavis2160]

There is no justice here my friend, go look somewhere else, unfortunately!!!🙏😢❣️

[@kristinarain9098]

Of course the international community didn't care. Neither did the US who as soon as we found out the Vietnamese were dethroning the Khmer rouge, we started to send weapons and troops to aid the KR in the northern jungles because we were still sour over losing Vietnam

[@gyorkshire257]

Worth noting that, during the 1980's (insanely) Maggie Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan were big big supporters of the Khmer Rouge. Maggie's most famous quote on the KR: "I think there are probably two parts to the Khmer Rouge, those who supported Pol Pot and then there's a much much more reasonable group..."

[@Snappy650]

Stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time. Jimmy Carter was “torn” about them and he was a bumbling idiot peanut farmer. Learn your history