They had nothing but infantry units. Their "artillery" consisted essentially of light cannon-and rockets-launchers! As for what (small) rockets they had, there were no launching pads for them. The Khmer Rouge improvised some out of bamboo for their 1973-1975 bombing of Phnom Penh, and they did not hit one of their military objectives. Instead, residential neighbourhoods of no military interest bombed, marked and schools were destroyed, children and innocents adults were killed or hideously wounded-all for nothing. The sensational destruction of a part of Pochentong airbase (in 1970), the gas at Kilometre 6, the oil refinery at Kompong Som (formerly Sihanouk-Ville), the strategic bridge over the Tonle Sap, were the work of Vietnamese engineer corpsmen or suicide commandos, with Cambodian "patriots" as their guides.
Hanoi, naturally enough, displayed and continues to display remarkably modesty and discretion regarding exploits of this nature in Kampuchea.
The method of recruitment: Poor peasants, mountain people, the inhabitants of the forest regions and the most remote village, those most "neglect" by the old regime, were exclusively recruited. To what end? Clever propaganda filled their hearts and minds with a seething, unquenchable hatred for the "upper class": those who were well housed, cloth, and fed; who could send their children to school, not needing them at home to help in the fields or tend the cattle or buffalo; who owned real and personal property, had servants, etc: who could easily pay their tax, or who collected them; those who administered or governed-in a word, the "oppressors."
The real murderous Vietnamese Hidden faces behind killing fields are real Yuon Angkar Leur/Cap Tren are too clever to use only their Yuon citizens who used to living in Cambodia since the murderous French colonial period on a right time in a right place to awfully mislead the people in the outside world and the super-illiterate-ignorant Khmer peasants and short-sighted educated townspeople that their relatives and families who were brutally murdered in the Angkar Leur/Cap Tren of the Khmer Rouge. Therefore, when the people in the outside world and the super-uneducated, ignorant Khmer peasants and super-short-sighted-educated townspeople who saw no Yuon secret agents who were able to secretly have disguised themselves among the super-ignorant-stupid-idiot Khmer Rouge and the former bandits by accusing the Khmer Rouge soldiers who had a real gut to kill their own people like a American Journalist, Elizabeth Becker, clearly writes only one angle, who doesn't have a look at very carefully every angle of Khmer History. She takes a few examples of Russian and Chinese Communists who brutally killed their own people during the Stalin's and Mao Tse Tung's notorious communist regimes:-
The communist tradition suited these aims. There are a number of precedents for the Khmer Rouge revolution. the Bolsheviks had decided to continue to martial law after their victory in hopes of finding a shortcut to socialism; in the second revolution Joseph Stalin forced Russians to make terrible sacrifices, including their lives, so that the Soviet Union could achieve rapid industrialization in a few years; and thirty years later Chinese great leap forward was patterned on similar lines in an effort to modernize China's industry and agriculture overnight. The great leap forward and Stalin's second revolution resulted in untold needless deaths, starvation conditions in much of the countryside, forced migration, state confiscation of private property, and new state terror networks.
As we understand that Chinese and Russian Revolutionary had killed too far many their own people as the world saw these holocausts in these two countries. Vietnamese leaders carefully thought that they have to use Yuon citizens as Vietminh and Vietcong, who used to live in Cambodia since the murderous French colonial period, can write, read and speak Khmer more fluently than Cambodian peasants themselves do. And many Yuon soldiers perfectly camouflaged themselves among the super-illiterate-ignorant Khmer Rouge yotheas who could not even write and read Khmer at all. Yuons' Krom Khiet Kar Aat Kambang/ Mysterious Group of Murderers who always showed up at night to arrest Khmer innocent people who were brutally led away to be murdered in the bushes everywhere in Cambodia. Yuons' Krom Khiet Kar Aat Kambang/ Mysterious Group of Murderers who were like 100% Draculas/vampires who were very thirsty of Khmer blood. The reason they ferociously murdered Khmers in the name of Angkar Leu/Cap Tren and borrowing Khmer Rouge s' hands because they tried to mislead Khmer victims and the world that the Khmer Rouge, as Hanoi unabashedly bullshitted to many foreign writers and authors who sat in their offices getting news from Khmers' enemies, was written like this:
I completely agreed with Michmanusa and Camae62 about AhmekKhmer. It appeared to be he loves the Khmer Rouge (maybe he is one of them!). I think he suffers from paranoid and delusional thoughts. He refuses to separate fact from fiction and this is how he spends his energy, spreading wrong information.
myagent21 2 years ago
myagent21, lol people say I'm Khmer Rouge but when they look at them self in the mirror a Khmer Rouge stare back. And you got fact lol
AhmekKhmer 2 years ago
Only you posted non-sense statements publicly. Only Khmer Rouge enthusiast like you see the KR staring back in the mirrow. Take a hard look at yourself in the mirrow and get some professional help!
myagent21 2 years ago
myagent21, are you confused now? what is mirrow anyway?
AhmekKhmer 2 years ago