Utopia Through Genocide - The Horror of Tuol Sleng S-21 (Cambodia Khmer Rouge) 1975 Pol Pot 

You beat me to it. 😅😊

I have met that man too and have his book! 👍

Didn't do any good, did it?

​@@indigohammer5732 It never does.

What's the memoir called

"unity" sounds like motivation for every communists to justify their action

Peter we know you like men but this topic has been covered in more detail with more graphics than this but I like what he has done here with this. It was done with class atleast.

@@terencehill2320 I'm trying to imagine you getting up in the morning and deciding "oh yeah this is what I'm going to do with my life"

@@relwalretep Thanks for that good laugh. Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out what Terence even meant.

Thank you!

Have you watched the movie as well?

Thank you, I'll have to check the book out!!!🙏😢❣️

@@ankokunokayoubi I have not

Stalin died in his bed while ordering and managing a campaign of extermination more specifically aiming at Jews (he was not against them as such but he judged they had outlived their usefulness as good revolutionaries) and probably for being poisoned by one Jewish doctor among the prime targets.

How did Mao die?

@@venturatheace1 In a comfy bed, after two heart attacks, while thousands mourned the man who was literally responsible for the murder of millions of their countrymen. Pretty wild.

By percentage, PolPot could B the recordholder

Have you ever seen "Don't Think I've Forgotten"? One of the saddest documentaries when you think about how Cambodia went from such a vibrant place to utter destruction, and how all these charismatic artists and musicians were slaughtered

@@samwindmill8264 nah but I'll have to check it out. Sounds interesting.

Cambodia wasn't rebuilding it's infrastructure during the 80s and 90s as it was still at war till 96 with 4 fighting factions involved.But over the last 28 years it has come on a long way that the UN is taking it off it's list of third world countries.

Imagine the same ideology now dominates western education systems.

Yep.. look stupid or die I guess hey.. Terrible.

Maoism. Mao and his equally evil wife did the same. They attacked teachers as well.

Evil still goes on like that today, in Iran you will be arrested and quite possibly die for not covering your hair, the level of insanity still going on in the 21st century is quite extraordinary.

I wear the glasses but i am not that smart. 💀

This is tragically ironic, considering that humans, like all animals, are very "forgive and forget" as far as individual sensibilities go. Meaning that despite our "never forget" vows, we ALWAYS forget and ignore the lessons of the past, because it's easier and less taxing on the mind to keep all of these errors in our memory. And it comes with the cost of repeating them over and over again.

@@DR3ADER1 I have to agree, unfortunately forgetting and repeating is the norm. But those of us who don't do either should persevere in keeping the memories and lessons fresh and alive.

no one would ever forget any of it lmao, it's retarded anyone thinks events like these will be forgotten

Or else... "Never Again." But it always happens again. The West barely paid attention while 3 million people were slaughtered.

Don't see an FFFB reference every day.

One of them rules this country until now.

So true

Pretty simple, really. The Khmer Rouge regime was one of China's pawns in a combined Chinese-American effort to "squeeze Vietnam dry" following the Vietnam war (yes, the US was *that* bitter) while also forming a united anti-Soviet front. Basically, China would support the Khmer Rouge regime to attack Vietnam from the south, while itself applied pressure from the north and simultaneously standing off against the Soviet Union; in return, the US would provide economical support and trade benefits to China as they're facing a common enemy, the Soviets. In this geopolitical chessboards, Cambodia and Vietnam were treated as pawns by the major powers, and millions of innocent people were grinded to death in each moves of the pieces.

ABC News ran a series called "The Eagle and the Bear" back when the Cold War was ending, and the episode about Cambodia closed with the narrator's line: "Cambodia: a nation destroyed in the conflict between the eagle and the bear"

What is even more forgotten the ideological support these animals got from western communist "intellectuals".

I feel the same way. I had next to no knowledge on Pol Pot, and the crimes against humanity he was responsible for - And as a father, seeing all these photos of children, who have just been straight up murdered and tortured, is devastating - I can litereally not think of anything worse. The fact that he was allowed to die naturally, in freedom, is just appalling.

I highly recommend the survivor memoirs "First they killed my father" and "When broken glass floats", among others. The first has been made into a Netflix movie, which is good, but nothing is like Loung Ung's own words describing what happened to her family.

Add demonic, depraved, or even beyond evil. There's no set of words that can adequately describe this atrocity. The Lucifer Effect at its most awful extreme.

We learned about the Cambodian genocide in depth during my high school history class, along with the war in Vietnam and the bombing of Laos. It wasn't as in depth as the lessons on World War 2, but at least we learned about it.

I remember First Lady Roslynn Carter talking about it in a PSA. Showing my age.

If we know about history we can't be ideologically manipulated to repeat it, this is why education (specifically critical thinking which is an inoculation against the logical fallacies that pervade many ideologies) is always the first on the firing line.

I first heard about the Cambodian Genocide and Pol Pot via the Dead Kennedys song "Holiday In Cambodia".

@@avamasquerade yes, but the teaching of history can be manipulated to indoctrinate a population. We are not taught objective history in the US. We are taught the propaganda that drills into our heads that the US government, an oligarchy, is a force for good all over the world, when in fact our military and CIA are the driving force behind most destabilisation and death all over the world. The US overthrows any world leader attempting to share the wealth of its country with its own citizens, kicking out the corrupt Western corporations that steal the wealth of their country for pennies on the dollar. The US has a history of arming, training and supporting right wing warlords, death squads, or authoritarian leaders in coups of governments not willing to sell out their own country to US oligarchs. On top of that, we have a history of creating a boogie man in a country with untapped resources that we’re later told we have to invade and occupy. We installed Sadam Husain, giving him a list of communists to execute, then have him weapons (including mustard gas) to fight Iran (and the Kurds). We created, armed and trained al Qaeda. Starting in the 1930’s, US oligarchs supported Hitler and the Nazis from their rise, through the war and beyond. Standard oil (Rockefeller) supplied them with oil. It was proven that the Bush, Koch, Ford and DuPont families worked with and profited from the Nazis and the free labor in the concentration camps during WW2. After the war, US spies helped high ranking Nazis escape so they could use them to overthrow leftist governments all over the world. Like Klaus Barbie in Argentina and Chile, or Joseph Mengele in Brazil. If your country has a military base inside of a country, they own that country. The fact that US has military bases in over 100 countries tells you how big of a colonial empire US oligarchs rule over.

That's the reality of being a War Criminal. Hell, even when they get caught, they live in rather nice and comfortable conditions in the international prisons in the Nederlands. Even Supermax prisons are considered hotels compared to common criminal prisons in North America, the British Isles and Mainland Europe.

The hard pill to swallow is that despite knowing the nature of pol pot's genocidal regime a lot of western power supported them direct or indirectly to either make a profit or drag Vietnam into a costly war just like the Soviet in Afghanistan. The demons who do their bidding will be rewarded and absolved from the horrible things that they've ever done

even Pol Pot got off easy

God here ?????

Margret Thatcher actually sent the SAS to support Pol pot. i believe its the first time they have ever dis obeyed orders.

The simple reason is because we pulled out of Vietman and communism supported by china rolled in.

@@jackryan9045 pot and the khemer rouge were funded by the US and the west. communist vietnam were the ones that liberated cambodia

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrowing the king cause the Khmer Rouge rise to power

Yep, it's ridiculous to penalize the true telling of history. The killing fields, the holocaust, the Rwandan genocide...some stories cannot be softened and remain true.

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign and overthrowing the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

What about the other genocides that have took place on this earth? Countries don't teach about their own atrocities so why would they start teaching about others?🤔

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrowing the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

yes, after having survived Cambodian prison camps Haing S. Ngor, who portrayed real-life Dith Pran, was murdered in a robbery outside his home in Los Angeles in 1996.

Wow really

Spot on. And it's evil bastards like Pol Pot, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Marine LePen and Jair Bolsonaro that orchestrate the violence..

@@XXSkunkWorksXX Yes, they do. There is so often a cultish element to it. I guess soul-less losers who think these atrocities are okay need a figurehead to give them an excuse. Not to mention someone to blame when they get shut down and start whining about how they were only following orders.

Pol Pot was the most hardline radical communist you can imagine, his ideal country was a 100% populace of illiterate farmers, people who were educated were seen as a threat to this. It happened to a lesser degree in the USSR and China during their "great leaps forward" as well.

You are so correct. Evil men like those will always get in power by whatever means it takes and they have no feelings what so ever and seem too gey pleasure out of the pain and suffering thwy cause. I do hope that thwy get their just rewards at some point in the future.

I wonder if we should be saved

In that case there are lots of species that "do not deserve to be saved". For instance, think of all the animals who kill each others' offspring in full view of the mother, just to mate with her. Or slowly eat their prey alive. While there are horrible human beings, on the whole we are one of the good guys. The fact we are even having a discussion about helping other species is proof of that.

The fact that evil like this is allowed to continue throughout history is almost a proof that God doesn’t exist as surely He wouldn’t let this happen if he did.

Name one positive impact the human species has had on the planet , and make sure it’s one that isn’t humans beings, trying to clean up the mess they made.

Always been a pretty poor organisation thats now become a lot worse. One of its organisations the WHO is a clear case in point. Set up as a world health organisation, it now uses health issues to follow a specific political agenda.

The Khmer Rouge were literally *in* the UN as part of the recognized coalition government of Cambodia til the early 90s

That’s what the left wants you to ignore. They will blame the US for Pol Pot through half truths and misrepresentation so they can about the reality that a US victory in South East Asia would have prevented this from ever happening.

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Thank you very much!

US don’t want the world 🌎 to know what happened in Cambodia. Their bombing campaign in Cambodia and overthrow the king helped the Khmer Rouge rise to power

Don’t forget those who sow these types of seeds.

Watch John pilger documentary about Cambodia on RU-vid. It’s one of the best from 1979

Nope

We can only learn if we study history.

Things are the same today as they were in Ancient Rome, Mesopotamia, ect. This is how humans are. Sadly, this stuff will continue to happen

The good old days when President-to-be George HW Bush ran the CIA.

And while the Viet army was doing their good deed, they were hit from behind by the PRC (& repulsed the bastards)

It never would have happened if the Vietnamese didn’t invade Cambodia to support the Khmer Rouge taking power in the first place.

So it was the Vietnamese fault? Clear example of historical revisionism.

Recognizing (not supporting) the ruling entity is quite a distance from considering them "the good guys".

How was this a stain on the international community? Do you think other countries watch the coverage of this daily? Or the international community didn't fully know until after it happened? The Armenia genocide is a stain on the international community because most countries don't even recognize that it happened.

Just like every other country that was ruled by a despot dictator. Unfortunately this story is no different then the million others like it. Who is ignoring it?

Go Google it yourself then. These are real people not a movie where you want all the juicy details. What would a video like that do or change?

@BIBBIDI-BOBBDI-BISH(SASHALOVE83) no I will not I want Raven's Eye to do it just like I said in my initial comment, I never asked to hear from you so why am I?

Why?

Absolutely! A lot of dictators and ordinary leaders do this. Even western pollies don't believe in whatever ideals their party represents, the party and its ideals are just a convenient way for them to line their pockets and grab some power. I'm from Australia and I see it here and in the US, Canada, Britain. Unless more young people learn some history humanity is destined to repeat these atrocities time and again. Look at the way these social media groups gather, either online or in person, to persecute someone who doesn't think like they do - and that is happening in western countries now.

Perhaps, but certain environments more easily facilitate the means to his desired end.

Stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time. Jimmy Carter was “torn” about them and he was a bumbling idiot peanut farmer. Learn your history