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Life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Regime

A few days after they took power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge forced perhaps two million people in Phnom Penh and other cities into the countryside to undertake agricultural work. Thousands of people died during the evacuations.

The Khmer Rouge also began to implement their radical Maoist and Marxist-Leninist transformation program at this time. They wanted to transform Cambodia into a rural, classless society in which there were no rich people, no poor people, and no exploitation. To accomplish this, they abolished money, free markets, normal schooling, private property, foreign clothing styles, religious practices, and traditional Khmer culture. Public schools, pagodas, mosques, churches, universities, shops and government buildings were shut or turned into prisons, stables, reeducation camps and granaries. There was no public or private transportation, no private property, and no non-revolutionary entertainment. Leisure activities were severely restricted. People throughout the country, including the leaders of the CPK, had to wear black costumes, which were their traditional revolutionary clothes.

During this time, everyone was deprived of their basic rights. People were not allowed to go outside their cooperative. The regime would not allow anyone to gather and hold discussions. If three people gathered and talked, they could be accused of being enemies and arrested or executed.

1 posted on 06/10/2020 7:26:50 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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Is this what we are witnessing? The predictions of Revelation playing out before our eyes? My heart is breaking for America and the world as a whole.


2 posted on 06/10/2020 7:26:56 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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The Khmer Rouge claimed that only pure people were qualified to build the revolution. Soon after seizing power, they arrested and killed thousands of soldiers, military officers and civil servants from the Khmer Republic regime led by Marshal Lon Nol, whom they did not regard as “pure.” Over the next three years, they executed hundreds of thousands of intellectuals; city residents; minority people such as the Cham, Vietnamese and Chinese; and many of their own soldiers and party members, who were accused of being traitors. Many were held in prisons, where they were detained, interrogated, tortured and executed. The most important prison in Cambodia, known as S-21, held approximately 14,000 prisoners while in operation. Only about 12 survived.


3 posted on 06/10/2020 7:27:28 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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This is exactly what’s going on.

It’s a Maoist revolution.

They have no intention of “defunding the police”, just changing the nature of the police: they will become political commissars, just as in the Soviet Union and “Kampuchea”.

And just like Ayers said in 1970, they plan to liquidate about 25 million or more who can never be re-educated.

That’s what this is.


4 posted on 06/10/2020 7:33:24 AM PDT by Regulator
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Another great article on this “Year Zero” theme

Iconoclasm and the Erasing of History
April 11, 2019

https://areomagazine.com/2019/04/11/iconoclasm-and-the-erasing-of-history/


5 posted on 06/10/2020 7:35:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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400,000,000 firearms.

17,000,000 ARs.

We all say, “ No.”


6 posted on 06/10/2020 7:35:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
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From what I read in Heinlein’s books I gathered that he wanted to kill at least eight Soviets before he was killed if they ever invaded.


8 posted on 06/10/2020 7:37:07 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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If you don’t think it is a possibility you are not paying attention.


9 posted on 06/10/2020 7:41:30 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To the extent that the Marxists want all history gone, yes.


10 posted on 06/10/2020 7:42:23 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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Yep! The only question is when. If President Trump wins the 2020 Elections it will be more than four years but less than 12 years from now. They need to graduate at least 10 classes from the colleges and universities to get their numbers up to where they have a voting majority. Plus each year “Conservatives” lose a number due to death. Factor in the political climate,the campaign to degenerate America by the colleges and universities aided and abetted by the media, the hatred of America by the majority of the young, the hatred of Capitalism by the majority of the young, the hatred of God by the young, the Democrats and meiia, the future is not difficult to for tell.


14 posted on 06/10/2020 7:48:17 AM PDT by sport
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Year Zero….. I’m feeling somewhat prescient as I made this same comment a couple days ago when watching the new 22 minute video by Millie Weaver. In it, there was a discussion about a group called Sunrise… in communist code language, this means ‘dawn of a new day’. I was remarking to a friend that this certainly was reminiscent of the ‘Year Zero’ that was talked about by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. For all these folks (Pol Pot or the Antifa/BLM/Sunrise crowd), the ends justifies the means.
18 posted on 06/10/2020 7:58:49 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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No because we got guns.


23 posted on 06/10/2020 8:07:04 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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China tried to do this with the Four Olds campaign during the Cultural Revolution. A lot of irreplaceable Chinese cultural history was lost because of that ill-advised act.
25 posted on 06/10/2020 8:09:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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They can try. As far as I know, the people of Cambodia were not raised watching westerns, and sitting there armed to the teeth. The damn little antifa cadres will get their ass handed to them in short order


27 posted on 06/10/2020 8:16:44 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Bookmark


28 posted on 06/10/2020 8:21:18 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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I will be like the Slim Picken’s character in the film Dr. Strangelove, riding on a 1000MG warhead dropped on ANTIFA Headquarters.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.


29 posted on 06/10/2020 8:21:23 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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How many campus commies who consider themselves intellectuals will be overjoyed to ‘serve the people’ by working the fields?

Working in Louisiana’s rice paddies & chopping sugar cane in 95 degree heat & 90% humidity?

I’d almost love to see it.


34 posted on 06/10/2020 8:38:40 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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We have guns, they didn’t


35 posted on 06/10/2020 8:46:19 AM PDT by Doff
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Did the world stand aghast at the monstrous crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge? In The Killing Fields, John Barron and Anthony Paul record the UN's response to the Cambodian blood bath:

"After the desolation of the cities, the early massacres and in the midst of the first famine, one of the Angka Loeu leaders, Ieng Sary, in his incarnation as foreign minister, flew to a special session of the United Nations General Assembly. Upon landing in New York, he boasted, 'We have cleansed the cities,' and when he appeared at the United Nations, the delegates from around the world warmly applauded."

Most of us don't remember this particular little gem, and many who do recall the dark, Lovecraftian horrors of Cambodia's descent into madness and savagery dismiss it out of hand as irrelevant to our circumstances. But it's an old familiar theme to those of us who are paying attention.

37 posted on 06/10/2020 8:57:48 AM PDT by Noumenon (There's a fight coming. Let's not lose.)
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No.


47 posted on 06/10/2020 10:08:59 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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Except this is America

The corpses will be Leftists — when they try to overthrow America.

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53 posted on 06/10/2020 10:17:33 AM PDT by elbook
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