Original Article: 【 第1頁 第2頁 第3頁 】 柬埔寨華人：在紅色高棉經歷的人間地獄 Author’s Note: This article is from the Hong Kong based China Reveiew News Network – and expresses
Tag: Khmer Rouge
Democratic Kampuchea – Defence Against Vietnam (1978)
Cambodia’s Strategy of Defence against Vietnam Author’s Note: The geo-political situation in 1977-1978 saw Vietnam deploy its Army inside Kampuchea with the intention of destroying
Khmer, Vietnamese and Laotian Solidarity!
A poster from the days prior to the death of Ho Chi Minh (in 1969), and the rise of Western interferece in the area. Following
KAMPUCHEA: POL POT’S NAME WRITTEN IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE! (6.6.2019)
Within the Khmer language the name ‘Pol Pot’ is written as ‘ប៉ុល ពត’, with the Chinese language ideograms suggesting the meaning of a ‘Bull-like Individual Who Delivers a Special Message with the Force of a Wave (hitting the shore)’. I intend to carefully research this subject and move through its terrain very carefully, with the idea that this research will encourage others to think for themselves and not accept the rather lazy mainstream narratives at face-value. As usual I reject a priori the bourgeois interpretations as being bias and unreliable, whilst seeking to establish facts from primary Chinese language (and other) sources. There is no need to ‘defend’ this method as it is nothing other than good academic practice.
Pol Pot’s Explanation of Events
When asked why he emptied the cities, Pol Pot stated that the US had already been bombing areas of Eastern Cambodia, and that he (and the Khmer Leadership) were apprehensive that the US would launch a vast and sustained bombing campaign upon Cambodian cities and towns – much like the years’s of US destruction wrought upon North Vietnam.
Pol Pot (in Russian sources) An Assessment of Conditioned Events
As US interference in Cambodia, (together with royalist intrigue), was plunging the country into lawlessness, Pol Pot stated that a strict and disciplined political regime was required to establish social stability through law and order. To achieve this transformation, Pol Pot devised a system of dividing the Cambodian population into three distinct categories:
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 