Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide - Timothy Williams
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Date: 2022-05-26
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Joel
I work in a little Cambodian owned donut shop where I live. Whenever its slow and I'm helping clean around in the kitchen, my boss, the wife, would often tell me stories about the things they went through in Cambodian before they came to the US and often times, they're pain and suffering often continued because of the racial discrimination against Asian. She said that the part my boss is from, the husband, food was scares. That more often than not people would stave days on end. So when ever there was food provided, if you didn't eat fast, you didn't get food. That we he eats so fast she said. To this day, the trauma still affects my boss, unconsciously. He still eat his food fast even though their isn't anyone who's gonna steal his food. Stories about how people who broke into her house, they didn't want valuables. They were after food. They were children when its all happened, worse of all.
The suffering and pain didn't stop even after a sponsor brought them over to the US. Due to the racism again anyone of Asian, they faced racial discrimination here too. On one occasion my boss and a friend were beaten up by a group of American boys simply for being Asian. He said it was so bad they felt like they HAD to form a gang. Not like a typical gang where one would assume they commit violent acts and crimes, rather just a gang of teenage Asian boys just simply together to protect themselves and friends from racial injustices and biases they face.
I think that's the saddest part, they didn't make the gang to commit crimes but rather to protect themselves but of course, the narrative might have been the same as they are today for Mexican immigrants, they are just violent criminals and gang members.
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I work in a little Cambodian owned donut shop where I live. Whenever its slow and I'm helping clean around in the kitchen, my boss, the wife, would often tell me stories about the things they went through in Cambodian before they came to the US and often times, they're pain and suffering often continued because of the racial discrimination against Asian. She said that the part my boss is from, the husband, food was scares. That more often than not people would stave days on end. So when ever there was food provided, if you didn't eat fast, you didn't get food. That we he eats so fast she said. To this day, the trauma still affects my boss, unconsciously. He still eat his food fast even though their isn't anyone who's gonna steal his food. Stories about how people who broke into her house, they didn't want valuables. They were after food. They were children when its all happened, worse of all.
The suffering and pain didn't stop even after a sponsor brought them over to the US. Due to the racism again anyone of Asian, they faced racial discrimination here too. On one occasion my boss and a friend were beaten up by a group of American boys simply for being Asian. He said it was so bad they felt like they HAD to form a gang. Not like a typical gang where one would assume they commit violent acts and crimes, rather just a gang of teenage Asian boys just simply together to protect themselves and friends from racial injustices and biases they face.
I think that's the saddest part, they didn't make the gang to commit crimes but rather to protect themselves but of course, the narrative might have been the same as they are today for Mexican immigrants, they are just violent criminals and gang members.
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SMorcrux
You can see the Cambodian genocide in the country's population pyramid, which is seriously horrifying in how an entire generation is just deleted from the graph. I heard that Cambodians treat their elders with suspicion or disrespect, because most people who managed to survive those horrifying conditions were ones who cooperated with the khmer rouge.
By the way, I noticed a discrepancy between your video last week about the Salvadoran Civil War, and this one about the khmer rouge, which might show some bias in your videos. In that video, which was mainly against a far-right regime, you constantly stressed the united states' involvement and support, portrayed the enemies of the regime as heroes even they were also very much morally questionable (of course much less, but you portrayed communism in an extremely positive light in that video, and were very one sided in the video. That would be completely fair and reasonable given how horrible the Salvadoran military regime was, but in this video, which mainly is against a far-left group, you didn't even mention at all foreign support (except for portraying the king as a western puppet who was OK with bombing his own country by America's command, all you said about the opposition was that they caused a civil war, and directly said that the genocide is a complex and not one-sided topic.
Of course both of these approaches are by themselves legitimate, but when you apply one approach to right wing groups and a different approach to left wing ones, I think that causes bias, and as an educational source you should be very much aware of that, and at least attempt to minimize it.
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You can see the Cambodian genocide in the country's population pyramid, which is seriously horrifying in how an entire generation is just deleted from the graph. I heard that Cambodians treat their elders with suspicion or disrespect, because most people who managed to survive those horrifying conditions were ones who cooperated with the khmer rouge.
By the way, I noticed a discrepancy between your video last week about the Salvadoran Civil War, and this one about the khmer rouge, which might show some bias in your videos. In that video, which was mainly against a far-right regime, you constantly stressed the united states' involvement and support, portrayed the enemies of the regime as heroes even they were also very much morally questionable (of course much less, but you portrayed communism in an extremely positive light in that video, and were very one sided in the video. That would be completely fair and reasonable given how horrible the Salvadoran military regime was, but in this video, which mainly is against a far-left group, you didn't even mention at all foreign support (except for portraying the king as a western puppet who was OK with bombing his own country by America's command, all you said about the opposition was that they caused a civil war, and directly said that the genocide is a complex and not one-sided topic.
Of course both of these approaches are by themselves legitimate, but when you apply one approach to right wing groups and a different approach to left wing ones, I think that causes bias, and as an educational source you should be very much aware of that, and at least attempt to minimize it.
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Connor
Visited Cambodia a few years ago:
- S21 prison is preserved as a museum and the cells still have the blood stains on the walls from people tortured there.
- The Killing Fields are gut wrenching. They stopped exhuming them as it was crippling the minds of the diggers, they wait for rain to bring them to the surface and only move the bones then.
- These pits are strewn with the clothes people were executed in, and their skulls were put in the middle to show the toll.
- Most were beaten rather than shot to keep the later victims calm
- The only pit without clothes was one where all the bodies were women. The suffering that place has seen is unimaginable
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Visited Cambodia a few years ago:
- S21 prison is preserved as a museum and the cells still have the blood stains on the walls from people tortured there.
- The Killing Fields are gut wrenching. They stopped exhuming them as it was crippling the minds of the diggers, they wait for rain to bring them to the surface and only move the bones then.
- These pits are strewn with the clothes people were executed in, and their skulls were put in the middle to show the toll.
- Most were beaten rather than shot to keep the later victims calm
- The only pit without clothes was one where all the bodies were women. The suffering that place has seen is unimaginable
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Andrew
What are the odds of this video being released on the same day I started writing a grad school essay on the same topic? Also, with my family coming from Vietnam, my father participated in our country's political and military involvements in Cambodia during the last few years of that second civil war said in the video. Sure, while my government's actions in Cambodia such as military intervention, prolonged occupation, and propping up a puppet regime were bad, I still believe those were necessary to fight the Khmer Rouge and its genocide.
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What are the odds of this video being released on the same day I started writing a grad school essay on the same topic? Also, with my family coming from Vietnam, my father participated in our country's political and military involvements in Cambodia during the last few years of that second civil war said in the video. Sure, while my government's actions in Cambodia such as military intervention, prolonged occupation, and propping up a puppet regime were bad, I still believe those were necessary to fight the Khmer Rouge and its genocide.
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Millus
This history of cambodia more than a thousands and millions of the people died due to the genocide, and that's a tragic history in the south east asia as we need to learn this video even books history relates of this video, and to apply in our real life situations of what we are facing us today for our future generations over uncertain times we have. Can I request ted Ed to show the video about MARTIAL LAW PHILIPPINES? as One of the tragic history too in South east asia of 1970s. Thank You.
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This history of cambodia more than a thousands and millions of the people died due to the genocide, and that's a tragic history in the south east asia as we need to learn this video even books history relates of this video, and to apply in our real life situations of what we are facing us today for our future generations over uncertain times we have. Can I request ted Ed to show the video about MARTIAL LAW PHILIPPINES? as One of the tragic history too in South east asia of 1970s. Thank You.
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HistoryFan
There was this film, (hopefully is still on Netflix) How They Killed My Father. Amazing film. One of the scenes that sticks with me is how the Cambodians are taught to despise the Vietnamese, but when they come face to face with them, they re more as guardians rather than monsters. The same goes for another scene where a Cambodian soldier is getting beaten by the locals, and the main character steps in and stops it. Even after watching it several times, it still hits me like a train.
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There was this film, (hopefully is still on Netflix) How They Killed My Father. Amazing film. One of the scenes that sticks with me is how the Cambodians are taught to despise the Vietnamese, but when they come face to face with them, they re more as guardians rather than monsters. The same goes for another scene where a Cambodian soldier is getting beaten by the locals, and the main character steps in and stops it. Even after watching it several times, it still hits me like a train.
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NahuelFanboy2004
There's a French animated film named Funan which is based on the events of Cambodian genocide. This film is about Funan, his parents and the relatives of Funan, who got separated between him and his parents and we can see the struggles between those characters and we saw them lost their lives and the forshadowing sights such as death, execution, punishment, etc.
This film is good and dark at the same time and it even won Annecy. I highly recommend you all watch this film.
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There's a French animated film named Funan which is based on the events of Cambodian genocide. This film is about Funan, his parents and the relatives of Funan, who got separated between him and his parents and we can see the struggles between those characters and we saw them lost their lives and the forshadowing sights such as death, execution, punishment, etc.
This film is good and dark at the same time and it even won Annecy. I highly recommend you all watch this film.
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Dao
The current prime minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, sought united Vietnam for help. In 1979, only 4 years after Vietnam War, Vietnamese launched an invasion to stop the genocide. We lose thousands of men to liberate Cambodia. Meanwhile, China PRC supported the Cambodia Red Rouge (Pol Pot) and announced sanction against Vietnam in the UN. China went extra miles to launch an invasion in North Vietnam to assist Pol Pot.
And in 1979, Vietnam won on both front of conflict.
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The current prime minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, sought united Vietnam for help. In 1979, only 4 years after Vietnam War, Vietnamese launched an invasion to stop the genocide. We lose thousands of men to liberate Cambodia. Meanwhile, China PRC supported the Cambodia Red Rouge (Pol Pot) and announced sanction against Vietnam in the UN. China went extra miles to launch an invasion in North Vietnam to assist Pol Pot.
And in 1979, Vietnam won on both front of conflict.
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Rob
I lived and worked in Cambodia for a time and the scars are still there. A foreign filmmaker was abducted and murdered for asking the wrong questions, and every couple of weeks in the local newspapers, they report some poor kid got his leg blown off from a mine or bomb dropped during the Vietnam War from the US. Extremely sad recent history, incredible people and friends I made, and the global community failed Cambodia during this period.
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I lived and worked in Cambodia for a time and the scars are still there. A foreign filmmaker was abducted and murdered for asking the wrong questions, and every couple of weeks in the local newspapers, they report some poor kid got his leg blown off from a mine or bomb dropped during the Vietnam War from the US. Extremely sad recent history, incredible people and friends I made, and the global community failed Cambodia during this period.
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Wat
If you somehow didn t think that Pol Pot was already a monster, this man never faced justice as he was never arrested. In an interview after the regime, he stated that he regretted nothing as he was simply experimenting with the country. As such, he was hoping he could orchestrate a second revolution. All of this said with a soft voice deprived of any remorse or sorrow for the country he single-handedly brought down on its knees.
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If you somehow didn t think that Pol Pot was already a monster, this man never faced justice as he was never arrested. In an interview after the regime, he stated that he regretted nothing as he was simply experimenting with the country. As such, he was hoping he could orchestrate a second revolution. All of this said with a soft voice deprived of any remorse or sorrow for the country he single-handedly brought down on its knees.
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