Cambodia: THE FORCED LABOR OF ANGKAR LUE/CAP TREN 1975-1979 (4/11) [KH-EN]

April 17, of the Kampuchean communist soldiers heavily armed, quiet, often of a worrying youth, made their appearance in the suburbs of Phnom Penh, converging towards the center of the city. For the crowd which had massed in the streets to accommodate them, the Khmer Rouges seemed to come from another planet. On their side, the rebellious soldiers considered the townsmen with a sovereign contempt: they was the enemies (khmang) which one had spoken to them, capitalists (nay tun) which refused to join the revolution. Less than twenty-four hours after, all the inhabitants of Phnom Penh accepted the order to leave the city.........
At that time, the Khmer Rouges could hardly but erect scaffolding of the plans and dream with the victory. Seen Office 100, the Kampuchean revolution appeared quite remote. To start, the Kampuchean Communist Party was not armed.
Laura Summers:
The evacuation of Phnom Penh, which was roundly criticized by the rest of the world as barbaric was really justified according to the standard total academic view which she supported. As her justification, she writes By all accounts, however, universal conscription for work prevented a postwar famine, but admits that It also appears that some work groups, in lieu of other forms of re-education, are obliged to work harder and longer than others. One must wonder how she knows this, given that she has not been inside the country. Does she have a reference? No source is listed. With respect to statements from refugees and Khmer Rouge defectors sponsored by resistance groups abroad, Summers dismisses them entirely. She writes:
These public pleas for support and the public concern raised by sensational, but false, documents finally provoked the Paris Mission of Democratic Kampuchea to protest that some journalists were degrading their profession and that the French held a major share of the responsibility for allowing these activities to continue.
Some of the documents to be discredited were, for instance, several faked photographs and interviews which between 1976 and 1977 were published in newspapers from Australia to America.
Furthermore, evidence that the evacuation was planned well before April suggests that strategic advantage, not the well-being of the citizens mattered to the Khmer Rouge. Hou Youns dissertation had sufficiently maligned cities as to make them appear useless to the country. Not only was class order reversed, but city dwellers would be made to farm the land, in a complete occupational reversal.
Porter and Hildebrand conclude from this that the death march characterization was unfounded.
Finally, leaving nothing to chance, Porter and Hildebrand hold that the temporary clearing of most hospitals, far from being inhumane, was an act of mercy for the patients. They argue that the hospitals of Phnom Penh had become overcrowded and unhealthy. It was thus necessary, for the well-being of the patients, to evacuate them. And what could they expect onto the elsewhere?
Do keep in mind:
From 1945-54: The events of Khmer Issarak reclaimed Independence from the French Colonialism. They saw Bo Dois set up bases everywhere in Cambodia by taking pretext coming to die for Khmers forcing the French out. In fact, they came to instigate dividing Khmers for creating Khmer-Vietminh to achieve their gaol.

From 1970-1975: The events of 18 March 1970, the National Assembly toppled the head of State Samdech Sihanouk who allowed Vietcong infiltrating along the borders and somewhere else in Cambodia. Subsequently, the appeal through radio of the ousted Samdech Sihanouk from Peking, Yuon Hanoi came out of the jungles walking everywhere in Cambodia, hoping to destroy armies of Khmer Republic through Samdech Sihanouks cry. Bo Dois had opportunity to destroy the Khmer nationalist armies by taking ploy that coming to help Samdech Euv. In fact, its their good opportunity to destroy Khmers, too (Hot War), and had chance to strengthen the group of Yuon Heads-Khmer Bodies were Khmer-Vietminh (Cold War) to masquerade as the Khmer Rouge forever. Therefore, Victory of 17 April 1975, there would be a masquerade; artifice in destroying Khmers from Yuon Hanoi is true.

Mr Kim Nguon Trach added: Look, brothers, since 1976, we havent seen members of Khieu Samphans Khmer Rouge. But, instead, seeing clearly the group of Yuon heads-Khmer Bodies of Khmer-Vietminh came out, who Angkar Leu/Cap Tren already appointed as the chiefs of Cooperatives, as Committees of Region/Damban, as the representatives. As we already have seen with our own eyes, Ta Pet, Ta Kau, Mit Kuet, Mit Lok (Yuon nationals) Mit Li (Yuon National), Mit Ley (Yuon national) and so on.

To the persons under their command are the bandits who Angkar Leu/Cap Tren invented to as the Khmer Rouge who are so brutal worse than brutal.

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[waynealarsen]

were the Khmer rouge a bunch of peasants. how could they do this ti their own people ( or any people for that matter). are they like the Red Guard in the cultural revolution of China?

[AhmekKhmer]

waynealarsen, you can study about it or read description.

[Cougman1978]

It is all about economic corruption. I heard the story about Julius Caesar who tore down economic and he was assassinated, because people lost their business.

[Cougman1978]

It is exact how nazi doctrins their ss and angkar doctrins their comrades. Hitler could afford his rent and pol pot couldn't get a job since he failed his radio school in paris, france.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy ---------4------------>.......­and if u were brutalized by me (for examples sake) for like 300 years , when u r given the upper hand and I am on the receiving end, unless you are a REAL admirable compassionate saint....if u r a normal homo-sapiens species like most of us, you'll go on a rampage too.

Urban-agrarian divide also churns out IMMENSE anger in agrarian ppls which sees leaders like Pol Pot take spotlight.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy -------3----------->As a young laddy growin up in an Indian village scene, I had a LOT of rage against urbanites. It is only when I became older and travel more did i mellow out.

Most agrarians have this notion that urbanites are there only for taking and asking 4 more. And urbanites live up to that rep sadly. This would explain some of the treatment they got in commune farms.

If u r Dad was treated like crap., if u were treated like crap, u'll treat others the same way. ....

[xxxdieselyyy]

@waynealarsen -2------>I can't tell u exactly how Campuchean agrarians were treated by Urbanites, but then India was rated better in this regard in Pre-Khmer Cambodia- and our urbanites treat agrarians like FECES. When there is a national crisis declared, agrarians give their produce voluntarily 4 the city peepz. Yet when an agrarian just wants his land not 2 be untouched for "development" and want simple life only, urbanites think they should be forcefully converted "for their own benefit"

[xxxdieselyyy]

@waynealarsen -------->U r right, Cambodia was a tragedy under KR. However, since I can relate myself....I wonder if most of the excess brutality was actually ordered by Nuon Chea and Pol Pot or whether they were simply excesses done by the new empowered agrarian class chiefs (like commune bosses) who were pissed off and wanted 2 go on V for Vandetta spree for the treatment they got under urbanites.

[waynealarsen]

@xxxdieselyyy----. sad, very sad. like the brown pellets they used as universal medicine and the top brass keep the real medicine.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@waynealarsen ---------->KR's top brass esp those who formulated their policies were ultra liberals from Paris *sigh* Khmer Rouge leaders were from pretty - actually VERY wealthy backgrounds......actually I get more chills up my spine when I see an ultra liberal leftist who opposes all institutions, lyk those who go about saying "All institution is corrupted" etc. U find TONNES in Western world.

When one of them takes control of a country, u see Khmer Rouge.....

[waynealarsen]

@AhmekKhmer yes, I have read the Someth May book Cambodian witness. fantastic. terrible terrible suffering under the Khmer rouge