Communist Revolution, nationalism, a few hot women and occasionally a few bottles of whiskey.
Khieu Ponnarythe wife of Po Pot, may have been one of the most astute Marxist women in the Marxist Leninist nation world. She was his mentor when he was in Paris and had joined the Marxist circle that would later become the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. She was considered one of the more intellectual members of the inter circle.
Music
Songs from the Democratic Kampuchean Ministry of Culture,
Always Remember our Revolutionary Living Tradition,
Bravery of Construction Revolutionary Soldiers,
Commitment to Follow Great Bravery of Kampuchean People,
Do not Forget the Fresh Blood of our Soldiers,
Estranged Wife,
Fighting Morality of Kampuchean Revolutionary Youth,
Flying a Flag above the Mekong River,
Harvest the Rice,
Children's Letter,
The Ministry of Democratic Kampuchea was planning on creating a movie studio, with top notch entertaining and uplifting movies.
Television
Books
My favorite new book is;
I Am Pol Pot, available from Amazon.com
Then there's the Black Paper, Facts & Evidences of the Acts of Aggression and annexation of Vietnam Against Kampuchea, Department of Press and Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Democratci Kampuchea; Cambodia: Starvation & Revolution, George C. Hildebrand and Gareth Porter.
I'm Mentioned in this book:
The Khmer peasants, Deng Xiaoping, China’s supreme leader after Mao Zedong died, who was may main supporter for many years and US President Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon
It has been argued that the I may not have come to power without the destabilization of the Vietnam War, particularly of the American bombing campaigns to "clear out the Vietnamese sanctuaries" in Cambodia. William Shawcross argued this point in his 1979 book Sideshow. Others claim that Congressional cut-offs in aid and bombing were more responsible for the communist victory.
About me: I was born Saloth Sâr (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), but I’m better known as Pol Pot
. I was the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During mt time in power I created an aggressive regime of agricultural reform, designed to create a utopian Communist society.
I was born in Prek Sbauv in what was then a part of French Indochina but which is now in the province of Kompong Thom. In 1934 my parents sent me to Phnom Penh to be educated at Wat Botum Vaddei, a large Buddhist monastery. After a year there, I went to live with my brother and his brother's wife, and began attending the Ecole Miche. I later went to Collège Preah Sihanouk at Kampong Cham in 1943. During this time there I enjoyed playing football and played the roneat (a bamboo xylophone). In 1947 I passed the end-of-year exams and was selected to attend Lycée Sisowath.
In 1949, I won a scholarship to study radio engineering in Paris. During my studies, I became a communist and joined the French Communist Party. In 1953, returned to Kampuchea.
At that time, a communist-led revolt was taking place against the French occupation of Indochina. The centre of this uprising was in Vietnam, but it also took place in Kampuchea and Laos. I joined the Viet Minh, but found that they regarded only Vietnam of importance, not Laos or Kampuchea. In 1954, the French left Indochina, but the Viet Minh also withdrew to North Vietnam, and King Norodom Sihanouk called elections. Sihanouk abdicated and formed a political party. Sihanouk swept away the communist opposition and gained all of the government seats.
I fled Sihanouk's secret police and spent seven years in hiding, training recruits. In the late 1960s, Sihanouk's head of internal security, Lon Nol, took action against the revolutionaries, known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea. I started an armed uprising against the government, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Prior to 1970, the Communist Party of Kampuchea already had a significant rebellion in the country site. However, in 1970, the pro-western General Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk, because the latter was seen, By President Richard Nixon, as supporting the Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
In protest, Sihanouk threw his support to the Communist Party of Kampuchea’s side. That same year, U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered a military incursion into Kampuchea in order to destroy Viet Cong sanctuaries bordering on South Vietnam. Sihanouk's popularity, along with the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, drove many to my side and soon Lon Nol's government controlled only the cities.
When the U.S. left Vietnam in 1973, the Viet Cong left Kampuchea but my party continued to fight. Unable to maintain any sort of control over the country, Lon Nol's government soon collapsed. On April 17, 1975, the Communist Party of Kampuchea took Phnom Penh and Lon Nol fled to the United States of America. Norodom Sihanouk was returned to power in 1975, but soon found himself side-lined by our leadership, who had little interest in his plans of restoring the monarchy.
Vietnam invaded Kampuchea to overthrow our government. Our army was defeated, and we fled to the Thai border. In January 1979, Vietnam installed a puppet government under Heng Samrin, composed of former cadre who had joined with the traitors who collaborated with Vietnam. I retained a sufficient following and formed a resistance group to keep fighting in a small area in the west of the country.
I just wanted to stop by your page and tell you that HBO Documentary is presenting "The Conscience of Nhem En"~~it's the story about how 16 year old Nhem En photographed all the people at S-21 (Toul Sleng) and it is a most important historic document about Democratic Kampuchea.
I have posted the small clip (above) which I found on youtube.com
I hope you find an opportunity to watch it.
I also have a new blog about the programme with additional links, including a link to HBO. Please feel free to come by and read or post your comments!
Things I Love About Independence Day (1. It's legal to purchase and use potentially fatal explosives. (2. Being drunk before noon on enough beer to kill a Clydesdale. (3. Self-esteen increases each year you're NOT the moron who drowned at the lake. (4. You can wear your Captain America T-Shirt without looking geeky. (5. It's the perfect collision of crass commercialism and phony patriotism. (6. Because time-travel hasn't been invented, we'll never know how depressed our Founding Fathers would be at the way we f*ck*d up their dream of liberty and freedom. (7. That girl --- you know the one --- who always shows up in the daisy-dukes and a tube top. (8. We tell children in our neighborhood that are scared by fireworks, it's only a drive-by and they calm down. (9. You can serve guests anything, including walrus carcess if you barbeque it first. (10. They haven't figured out a way to make it a religious holiday yet.
Obama is now my friend--I added White House, but he is just a dork! Cant do nothing and is like the presidency of Kabul OR pakiSTAN or islamistan, and NOT really care about us! So many poor people here gots no job, I spend my day in library bathrooms making more CHANGE than he give away to big banks hahaha!! You got some change 4 me?
HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!! "Oh, a whirling dervish And a dancing bear Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire And the boys in Kenya And the girls in France yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance. Nice, nice, very nice Nice, nice, very nice So many people in the same device." --- The Book Of Bokonon
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