Cambodia: THE FORCED LABOR OF ANGKAR LEU/CAP TREN 1975-79 (11/11) [KH-EN]

Most scholarship on the rise of the Khmer Rouge conforms to a state-centred framework. Scholars usually focus on events in recent Cambodian history and society, or on the impact of the Vietnam War, to explain one of the most murderous regimes in modern history. Despite excellent research and thoughtful explanations, questions remain unanswered. Nevertheless, within the already existing scholarship on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge period, there exists ample evidence for the idea that the rise of the Khmer Rouge resulted from the complex interaction of global and regional events of the 1960s and 1970s with localized socio-political conditions.
However, the ideological argument does not explain how the Khmer Rouge were able to gain power. It implies that they were a tiny, isolated group with no mass appeal who reaped extraordinary benefits from a power vacuum and aid from China and North Vietnam. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary of indigenous peasant support. Moreover, as Ben Kiernan and Craig Etcheson have argued, other than in a coup detat, which was not what took place in 1975, it seems unlikely that a cell with no support could win a civil war, control the countryside, and carry out a revolution.
At the time After the Cataclysm was written, several scholars did suggest that the Khmer Rouge never really exercised complete control throughout the country; according to this view, directives provided by the central authority in Phnom Penh were perverted by local commanders bent on settling old scores. Ben Kiernan was originally one of the proponents of this theory.
If socio-cultural factors were mostly responsible, then why did such a revolution happen when it did? To what extent were cultural factors shared? What about the 20% non-Khmer in Cambodia?
What about the 20% non-Khmer in Cambodia? In fact, 20% non-Khmer are Yuon citizens, as I already mentioned, who used to live in Cambodia during the French colonial period, could read, speak and write Khmer fluently, after they finished their studies in Cambodian universities and colleges/high schools, to be secretly impostors as the leaders of the super-illiterate-ignorant Khmer Rouge soldiers who are misled, or wrongly condemned by the people in the outside world and their own Khmer people. Because the world and Cambodians can only view one side of the Khmer Rouges atrocity, but they all never use their brain/logic to think thoroughly that there are many Yuon themselves used to live in Cambodia still working for their masters in Hanoi waiting for a right time to come and take that golden opportunity to kill all Cambodians while we-Cambodian victims were in chaotic situation of 17th April 1975.
China supported Sihanouk publicly throughout his tenure as king and president, and Zhou Enlai, a long-time friend of Sihanouk, strongly supported him, but as the Cultural Revolution widened, radical factions in the government supported the KR, then the inner circle of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Etcheson surmises that this division reached into the CPK itself, splitting the Maoist core that formed the nucleus of the Khmer Rouge from the more moderate, Vietnamese influenced intellectuals.
As we can see as above-mentioned by Etcheson; Yuon leaders are so cunning to only influence intellectuals. Who are intellectuals Yuon leaders influenced to be the leaders of the super-illiterate-ignorant Khmer Rouge soldiers? Yuon Hanoi Leaders only influenced their Yuon intellectuals very secretly who studied Khmer culture-tradition, religion and language and know every angle of Cambodian jungles and geography to have led the Khmer Rouge soldiers in the name of Communist Party of Kampuchea. Yuon Hanoi leaders didnt really want to get caught in action. Thats why they secretly used Angkar Leu/Cap Tren in the countryside to kill Khmer innocence madly. Theres no doubt that the Yuon citizens, who used to living everywhere in Cambodia, were well-educated in both Yuon and Khmer languages, were substantially influenced by its authoritarian communism.

Category:

Education

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• Cambodia
• Kampuchea
• Khmer
• Sihanouk
• Salot
• Sar
• Yuon
• Cap
• Tren
• Angkar
• Leu

[bobw1r3]

i believe it was from the massive bombing by the u.s that the kr used as a tool to gain peasant support and recruit peasants into the kr "army".

[AhmekKhmer]

@bobw1r3, who were they bombing? Vietcong! and what would Vietcong do to Cambodian?

[Nikes62]

@vuthy007 : The film was made in 1991 by director Ho Quang Minh, (vietnamese, born 1949) and is actually called "Page Blanche" (White Page), not the title given above. Ho Quang Minh also directed "Gone, gone, Forever Gone" (1995) vietnamese entry for 1996 academy awards.

[Nikes62]

Do you know if this film is available for purchase (DVD) anywhere? Thank you for posting.

[Cougman1978]

I hope people clean their hatred, so don't make an issue on yuon, viet- cong, khmer, thai, hmong, vietnamese, and chinese. They are all same as generous of south china and china. So don't look something against their own relationship.

[vuthy007]

when this film was made??anyone knows??please le tme know.

[vuthy007]

it's so hurt,when they asked for their relatives and their love ones.I lost the whole family of my grand aunt,,7 people were killed.

[goldmanutube]

Thank u very mucy for sharing this, Ahmekkhmer.

it's a very nice movie which we all gotta learn from that.

hopefully, we can learn from that.

i strongly believer we won't let it happen again.

Go Go Go Cambodia... we definately learn from the past.

we have to be united.. we have to take care of one others.. we have to take care our country..

surely, we can be parts of our nation and can develope our nation.

i'm very proud to be Cambodian.

Kingdom of Khmer... United..... i love u, guys...

[ias251993]

Communism is a total failure. It has been practised in many parts of the world, e.g. USSR, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and also North Korea all ended up with millions of people died of hunger. Communism would not work in our society as it is against human behaviour.

[pochlomin]

thank you for sharing.. this brakes my heart but i am glad that watched this..