I knew Pol Pot- 28 Jan 08- Part 2

[Cybor88]

Such propaganda! They say he hated vietnamese people, yet they forget to mention his friend, Jacque Vèrges is Vietnamese. They don't mention how many people who died from the U.S bombings, blockage of the country's import, such as FOOD!

So, many of the deaths were unintentional, caused by America's holy war.

Yes, some people were tortured, but guess what. People are being tortured on Guatanamo bay too.

No country has ever been bombed so hard as Cambodia.

[Cybor88]

Most of those mass graves are mostly corpses from the bombing and famine, caused by the war USA insisted to lead against communism. The people who fear commnunism are very rich.

So, why are you against communism when you're not rich and does not own a huge company? Just because some people pushed mass propaganda on you through television? You  are too stupid to comprehend what cambodia, or what Pol Pot tried to do.

[fartknocker31]

@Cybor88 ..... uhm.. actually one country has been bombed more than Cambodia. That country is Laos. But yeah, same scenario (US bombing). No thorough planning or strategy for entering and exiting the Vietnam War was established by the US Gov (just like the Iraq War), big mistake. This fact, along with Vietnam efforts to invade Cambodia both demonstrate that Pol Pot is not solely to blame for everything. There are probably a few other factors (Khmer Rouge internal politics, Palace's role, etc.)

[Iggy3d]

Pol Pot was a sick fucker.

[ItachiUchiha715]

He is a terrible leader.

[noobfart39]

thumbs up if you skipped the first part

[yayatheinvincible]

i agree with many of the comments, and I absolutely take this seriously, but I just wanted to point out that...lol that nuon chea is wearing sunglasses?? he has to look good for his interview?!

[UDSS]

He was a criminal and a Maoist rascist. His ''communism'' was not what Marx and Lenin wanted. He build a rascist state, only for the Khmer people. His totalitariansism was so high, that Vietnam had to end it.

But the west did not liked that. They supported Pol Pot for many years. Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, both gave support to Pol Pot against he new People's Republic of Kampuchea.

[crutmauler]

Why the heck don't the left wing phuckwads get it?

[Crijevo]

Sorry, but communism as ideology isn't entirely criminal. Unfortunately, it was massively put that way into practice - by humans. Any ideology is horrifying when it reaches extreme levels of abuse and manipulation (read: totalitarianism).

That way you put it, 'democracy' is just as equally a weakness - even worse, it is more and more irrelevant and illusive. Look at the world we live in now. Did anything change for the better? Personally, I don't blame 'communism', I blame human arrogance.

[rigstula]

@Crijevo Look at how many nations that have tried to implement communism. The rate of failure is overwhelming. Now, that tells me there is something inherently wrong with the ideology. Like it or not, it breeds extremism and intolerance in people. I've known so many communists who frown at anyone who thinks differently from themselves.

Now, democracy isn't perfect, but at least I am allowed to criticise my country's worthless government without being put into a concentration camp for it.

[midnightfusion1993]

Communists and only the communists who massacre THEIR OWN PEOPLE !

[63gstone]

You gotta love the communists. Everytime they come into power thousands if not millions of people end up murdered. But whenever I have spoken to one they ALWAYS say "We'll get it right next time". That's exactly what Pol Pot said. Communism is the most evil ideology ever invented by man.

[rigstula]

@63gstone Exactly. How many people must die in their attempt to get their 'experiment' right? How many people must pay the price of their mad illusions? How many times must communism fail before they realise there is something inherently flawed with the ideology?

[rigstula]

What I find truly frightening is that there are still people out there who think communism is a splendid idea. It is interesting how ideologies that want to achieve a so-called 'utopia', like fascism and communism, ultimately are the ones that lead to the most suffering.

Communism is a false promise of the future, and a perfect example of why the end does not justify the means.

'But that wasn't REAL communism' is a poor argument when millions lie dead in several countries that have adopted it.

[CrystalHunter1989]

@rigstula Amen. It's colored red for a reason...

[sreydien]

Ha! Sad for WHAT!!!!! pol pot dead is good for mankind, only wish he suffered the way he killed his people.

[hollymatterson]

I wonder if Pol Pot had Swiss Bank accounts. Can anyone confirm this? Did he ever live in a luxury home? For being such a powerful man he lived in a shithole.

[SPACEALLEN1]

These commies killed all the old people in the evacuation, Godlessness made these people kill without conscience, polpot and his scumbags will surely receive the punishment they deserve.

[dat8r1]

Pol pot et sa bande de khmers rouges ont les yeux plus gros que leur ventre ! ils ont voulu s'attaquer à l'ogre vietnamien et ils ont attrappé une indigestion ! :)

Quand est- ce les cambogiens vont exterminer les khmers rouges ?

[xxxdieselyyy]

@amper314 ----------->That's what you get when u have extreme anti institutional ultra liberals from Paris from wealthy backgrounds run an agrarian country. Pol Pot was so extreme in his views that he viewed banks, and schools as anti revolutionary simply because they were "Western".....

I don't get jittered at all when I run into Maoists for example , but I do get a chill up my spine when I listen to Western anti institutional ultra liberals speak their views.....

[huteca70]

pol pot same like hitler maybe worse, maybe the worst

[ippyevie]

@huteca70 I genuinely think that this is the worst genocide in human history.

[Rookietop]

why the fuck does pol pot keep clapping his hands like he's accomplished something in his life? The guy was pathetic

[gulerezan]

==OOÜÄ

[lenz0101]

It was funny that one man with emotion of hatred and nationalism running high could bring so much miseries and suffering to so many people. Moreover he was supported by both Communist China and the U.S. History has repeated itself in Rwanda. God must be crazy!

[nbcable]

That is a complete lie that the US supported Pol Pot. We supported the Monarchist and Republican groups that opposed the Vietnamese invasion. These groups in turn were willing to ally with the Khmer Rouge despite their differences with him in order to expel the Vietnamese.

[skinnyskaller]

Still, you yakns claimed that the Khmer Rouge government was the only legitimate government in Cambodia for years...

You actually embarresd and put your own country's name to shame only because you felt humiliated by and were unvilling to let Vietnam gain influence.

But the matter of fact that the Vieatnamese stopped this terrible genocide and saved the entire Cambodian population you didnt really cared about...

[nbcable]

The Vietnamese had been the group that allied with and armed the Khmer Rounge in the first place. The Vietnamese who were in their own country just as brutal only invaded Cambodia because some Vietnamese refugees were felling across the border. As for recognizing them, they already had a seat on the UN and so we simply refused to recognize the new Vietnamese puppet dictatorship therefore the Khmer Rounge was still listed as the Government of Cambodia.

[airrick16]

Country will never recover, all the building are from before the war..and they chopped down all their trees

[airrick16]

Why did China suport Pol Pot??

[LoveOfRighteousness]

They did this because they were in conflict with the Soviet Union for control of the international Communist movement. Vietnam was an ally of Moscow and hence China felt that the Khmer Rouge would be theirs in Cambodia.

[flamingdouche]

Ohhhh great reason to support mass murderer of millions of women and children....But CIA is just as bad as China I suppose

[starlight76able]

April of nineteen seventy five was also the fall of Saigon.

[Grimaldo35]

Stalin was certainly a ruthless dictator, but never commited genocide (genocide is when you kill an specific group of people for religious or political reasons)

And his supposed (or real crimes) were largely exaggerated first by Nazi propaganda (Goebbles) and after that for pro Nazi William Hearst, Conquest and Kruschev.

[Grimaldo35]

@rainermarius False, Mao never, ever killed 50, or 500 millions like some ignorants say. People died of starvation during Great Leap Forward complete failure (20+ millions), but not were killed, Mao never ordered PLA to go and kill some group of persons like Hitler and Suharto.

[vortex162]

you just order them to work themselves to death!there are many ways of killing!

[Grimaldo35]

@rainermarius Saddam was terrible, but not at the level of Suharto, Pol Pot or Hitler.

By the way, Pol Pot was not responsible of the deadth of 1-2 millions.

Cambodia was a destroyed country far before KR took power, people was starving and dying of epidemics before, during and after KR period.

He ordered to kill lots of alleged viet spies, and took catastrophic decisions too, but he didn´t order to kill millions like Hitler and Suharto did.

[chan0chap]

this is very interesting. i never knew that pol pot hated the vietnamies and actually invaded vietnam.

this leads me to think that western powers were behind this maniac taking power.

he might have been a CIA agent.

[jwh30385]

Hahaha. Nope, Pol Pot was fuelled by anti-American sentiment. He had nothing to do with the CIA. Just because he hated the Vietnamese does not mean he's automatically CIA dumbass.

[chan0chap]

the whole world is fueled by anti-americanism

including the taliban which is a proven CIA funded group.

[nbcable]

Supporting the taliban did not seem like such a bad idea at the time cconsidering the Genocide the Russians were perpretrating in Afghanistan don't go claiming that America is now commiting genocide also because we are not.

[nbcable]

The Governments supported by the CIA are not anti-American.

[motherfucker7335]

i hope this shit-pol pot is now burning in hell,only biggest shame and a proof of justice missing is that all of those queers are still alive,how damn it's possible that they aren't hung

[Grimaldo35]

Cambodians didn´t "accept" US bombings nor Lon Nol murdeous dictatorship or Pol Pot´s one. Cambodians suffered it all as a consecuence of Vietnam war and US foreing policy.

Swiss never bombed out of hell Germany, Swiss was not behind Hitler, and well you are comparint completely different cases. Germany was a fascist nation supporting a fascist criminal, Cambodians were just victims.

[TravisDrago]

the only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing

[vinavon]

Yes. What is necessary is for normally moral people to be passive and think that it is enough to do nothing!!! It is always easy to accuse others of being immoral. It is much more difficult and actually risky to stand up for morality and DO something to implement a better and more moral society. Even though there is not much to learn from tyrans such as Pol Pot, one thing one could learn is how active they were.

[Grimaldo35]

Pol pot have some responsability for cambodian tragedy, but he´s not the only one.

Don´t forget USA "secret" bombings that destroyed this country while killing 600,000 inocents, don´t forget Lon Nol corrupt and murdeous dictatorship.

Don´t forget previous genocide in Indonesia and Timor where between 1-2 millions were murdered for the army.

[vinavon]

Cambodians, you thave to assume the responsibility of having accepted a tyran as a leader. Why don't you discuss the issue as have Germans with their terrible deeds in WW2. They are not saying it were the Swiss who did this and that and the Austrians who did this and that... No they assumed responsibility. And maybe Cambodians can then also think about how society should evolve to prevent such an atrocity in the futuref. Should you maybe stop admiring tyrans and increase quality of education?

[tivinivi]

@Grimaldo35 dont forget world war 2. about 50 million people was killed because of world war 2

[22smosh]

@Grimaldo35 i guess ur communist

[IScoPezX]

saddens me because im kmher

[1992Macky]

Grimaldo35 - get your facts right,.

[Grimaldo35]

Did Pol Pot killed 2 millions? I doubt it, first than all Cambodia was destroyed after USA bombings and Lon Nol genocide dictatorship, starvation and epidemics were killing too much people before, during and after Kmer Rouge took power . . .

Pol Pot wanted to avoid a coup d´etat like Indonesia 1965 were more than 1 million PKI members were killed in one year, so he acted with extreme violence, but he didn´t kill 2 millions

[roflwhat]

who ever said he killed 2million he was responsible for the deaths

[moester101]

scizophrenia+presidency=khmer rouge

[Zathera350]

im sorry cambodian555 my dads brothers and sisters died.His parents were shot and he saw them taken away.

[jeyjhour]

We Want Pol Pit Brothers head too..

[jesusmile]

I think that those 'big' destroyers are from God, if you can understand what I mean. As I know Hitler (as well as Pol Pot and maybe others) had a charisma that let them do those crimes against a vast number of people. It seems to me that they were born to play their role. Everyone who was near them (either Hitler or Pol Pot) considered them as gods...

It's kinda sad:(::(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

Rest in peace... poor murdered Cambodians...

[BaVoBa]

You are wrong. Some people are just lunatics or completely indocrtinated by wrong ideas, coming to power due to consequences of fatal wrong turns of geopolitics.

Its deeply dangerous to downplay these occasions as "acts of god", because that would mean theres nothing you could do about it. And in my opinion thats not true.

[pitcalco]

What can you or I do about it?

We live in fairly normal countries but we can't do anything about our own problems. What could you and I have done for Cambodia.

Though I agree with you that it is not right to think of it as an act of God. Fact is that some people are just evil.

[landsurfer66]

He was a complete moron who surrounded himself with even greater morons. "Evil and incompetent", that sums it up quite nicely.

[cambodian555]

this shit is fucked up man 4 of my brothers died becouse of this shit

[drummer1brt2gzs]

Good initial thought, but it obviously spun out of control in a big way.

[massonwas]

his only mistake was 'to give the peasants power'? that was the basis for his regime!! Stupid stubborn bastard.

[cabritoable]

his mistake is his disregard of Marxist-Leninist-amoist line. Love live LMM idiologists line in proletarian revolution

[phillipgaley]

the basis for his regime was rather, the "2nd lieutenants", intercommunicative and self-initialized cadre of "pros" -- uneducated devotees.

This people are of course, even yet in the status of cultural and intellectual tutelage--it takes some generations, . . .

But, in all, they do not yet begin with a enduring and powerful, accurate cosmological apprehension; in a word, they're not Christians, . . .

[fartknocker31]

@massonwas .... It's not about giving power to peasants. Power in the hands of common people is what true democracy is all about. There was more than one mistake which led to the genocide; probably more related to secrecy and paranoia, along with an ideology of the party that focused on change too quickly and too radically.

[tvseries1000]

fuck pol pot....fucking human in the world

[jhelynjo66]

I wish this kind of STUPIDITY will never happen again in any part of the world. I wish there will be no more POLITICIANS like these people. I wish they can know GOD so they can think of something good for their own people. I wish for these POLITICIANS to have a HEART and a good MIND. A heart that can feel love and not hate. A mind that can teach them to analyze the outcome before their actions.

I wish they used both so they can understand how it is to be loved even when you die!

[Zao125]

There is no God there.

[jhelynjo66]

I am happily playing with my brothers and sisters but to think that during those time, there is this girl named Kimni crying for hunger, pain, wound. Her parents both died and she doesn't have any news about her brothers and sister. She only knows one thing at the moment, "she really hate the Khemer Rouge" and she has the right to have this feelings for them because they have stolen from her the best life that she is about to experience with her family while she is growing up.

[jhelynjo66]

I met a Cambodian friend named Kimni. She has the same age with me. She showed me her scars, some gun shot, some by knife which according to her is done by Khemer Rouge. She is just 8 years old at the time. She said, she even tried eating a meat of death people especially their heart and lung. Her story made me cry because when I was just about the same age like her, I am happily living with my family not knowing that there are children suffering in the other side of the world.

[jhelynjo66]

I am from the Philippines and when I got the chance to work in Cambodia, I visit Toul Sleng Museum, and tears really fell on my face. I could not imagine the pain and sufferings of those local people especially the children, babies and the old people. Those Khemer Rouge Officials if we can call them one, really proves of having no balls under their two legs. Killing people that is not convicted of any crime is really a murderous act. They too deserve to die in pain and suffering.

[khryzalids]

purest form of communism... ofc u can do that with 100 peoples left..

[antejutronic]

Nobody in Cambodia's gonna speak against the Khmer Rouge because today the power in Cambodia is still in hands of ex-Khmer Rouge cadres.

[boross411]

the lady cook and his supporter don't seem remorse at all...heartless..bastards.....­.......

[joejjohnston]

its more complicated than that

[noobartist]

The people are still scared from this regime today... I hope the Cambodian people around the world recover from this.

[badmodelminority]

There are many Cambodians around the world that consider this evil bastard a hero and go as far as denying the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, preferring to blame Viet Nam for the deaths of the victims of the Khmer Rouge Genocide. This denial is what impedes the recovery process.

[theanhbeo]

destruction of cambodia, this pol pot is such a ... i dont know ... a bastard

[SuperOohYeaH]

cambodian is like the lowest out of all the asian.

[dinh08]

Pot pot had a plan to try to make Cambodia a better place, however his tactics were completely unnecessary, inhumane, and brutal. His violent ideas were from France as their country had a violent French Revolution. He thought he was capable to redefine Cambodia by taking the best political ideas from mixture of countries and apply it to Cambodia. HE FAILED. He took lives of innocents love ones, decrease Cambodia's population and let the country having one of the HIGHEST POVERTY in the world!!

[Skyisnotalimit]

Asshole...

[hosweetim89]

World Record. Fucked up country in 4 years. High score.

[fostergord]

7:30 he always fucks us lol

[pennkhmer]

All the Superpowers caused all these deaths and sufferings to the innosent Khmers.

[johnjackson2000]

Actually he gained the the idea to kill *every* opponent from the works of Stalin and Mao. And Kropotkin's book manifested the idea that he shall press on every idea no matter what happens...

Of course this all wouldn't had happend if there hadn't been no colonialism...

[sykr23]

Maybe you should have him in your country and experience his admin. Hope u know what u saying.

[congoafricanparrot]

fuck you son of a bitch

[iceshaver]

i totaly agree with money!

[edpulido1000]

Fuck you ,Pol pot , he was a mother fucker and the jemers too,

[JZPinoyAguinaldo]

The root was Pol Pot! damn him!

However, it was good that he eliminated the pro-government Khmer Republic. I wouldnt like a country run as a puppet regime.

[hlwanmoe1981]

If you find the root of the cause, it's China...China is the root of the cause, they supported Pol Pot for their political influence in region. China is a toxic of the world.

[totohernan]

you are right. greedy feeling started in china.. and it carries this character into their veins.

[yedrow]

The root cause was France. Remember, the French revolution was violent.

[ricenamese]

SOME ONE IS GONE TO HELL ..LOL

[drbun]

Communist idea is only good in books, the real world is unstable. Any government that have to use force to control the country wont last long.

[SmackThatWhat]

i think practicing communism is unstable...it's not that easy to control people that's why they have to kill cons...

[legalaction08]

Good point. You think about things logically the guy I was attacking doesn't. His moronic comment just pissed me off.

[2soulmate]

it is unfare that he died the way he was.

'' heart disease'' come on!!! the people of Cambodia would love to see him suffer by the ways he had treated thier familys .

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[mozzmanau]

This just proves how stupid mankind is. How can you blame everything on one man. Can one man walk the streets and kill one million people NO, Can one man take over a country and lay down the law? If this was the case every country in the world would be taken over every day. I think the guy was a nut job but you also have to take into consideration, PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID. Just look at the yanks, they voted Bush in again. People have to take responsibility as well for these morons.

[dolomite51]

Not really. If it weren't from the ideaology of one particular individual, a chain reaction of events wouldn't have occur. Take Hitler for example...

[mozzmanau]

I know what you mean and it disgusts me. Goes to show you how stupid mankind really is

[2soulmate]

they were pressure and forsed they have no chose unlike here watch and search the history before comment!!

[billyfrmphilly]

i agree, people are pretty fucking stupid. but if you were any better you would have known that the yanks never voted bush in office nether time....

[mozzmanau]

The yanks are just fuckin stupid LOL...they'll believe any bullshit thats fed to them.

[ManoftheBeret]

Way to overgeneralize about a population of over three hundred million.

[Meurssault]

esto es comunismo a la norteamericana

[peakarach]

Pure evil man!

[EsotericDesi]

Such cruel man lived his life because of a few big nations' self interests... Shame!

[binouk20070334]

Leaders of china, thouch Pol Pot, Sihanouk, Noun Chea ,Kheav sam Phan,Duch how to kill khmer peoples almost 2 millions.Communist means killing.

[legalaction08]

Communism does not mean killing you idiot.

The ideology can be practiced without massacres.

I am not supporting Pol Pot but Communism has never been practiced properly.

Does Democracy and Liberalism equal killing? No? Well what about the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian PEASANTS who were slaughtered by American air strikes?

[bigblackdyx]

@binouk20070334

But Pol Pot was thrown out ba da Vietnamese foo. Uncle Ho be a hardco' commie too. But we AMericanz protected dat foo afta 1979.

[youseehim]

Fantastic, can't wait to see the others in this series. Unique and cutting-edge idea in media!!

[annarboriter]

Timely documentary as much on the nature of authoritarianism and its followers.

[thembrickkids]

i would love to see more documentarys from u guys on cambodia

[roastedlampost000]

Pol Pot Pol Pot Pol Pot..... It's a holiday in Cambodia!!! Dead Kennedys - great song!

[zed4785]

Why is it always "someone else's" fault :-/

[BIGMEL1981]

a good segment to show the world a bad mans doings

[toosinbeymen]

Another brilliant job of journalism by AJE.

Is the american media listening. Get out of your easy chair and do your job!

[staniscanner]

No, you can thank the Liberal media for our shitty creditability.