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Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:34 am to Bullfrog
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handmade goblets made out of human skulls
I've got one (top half of the head) that was apparently supposed to be a candy dish. Lined with something silver, sitting on a triangular base of the same metal with a bunch of skulls carved into it. Parents picked it up when we were in Japan in the 80s on one of their trips to Thailand.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:42 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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50 years ago today, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh and took over Cambodia. It immediately depopulated the capital city en route to murdering roughly 2 million of the country's 8 million inhabitants.
Still aren’t more of a threat than white supremacists!
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:43 am to Porter Osborne Jr
The Act of Killing?
Posted on 4/18/25 at 11:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
You know he was bad when Communist Vietnam had to invade and kick him out just a few years after they were done with the Vietnam War.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:21 pm to The Cow Goes Moo Moo
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The Act of Killing?
I believe that is it.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Any good books on this time in Cambodia? This is a history rabbit hole i haven’t went down yet
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:37 pm to Bruco
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Any good books on this time in Cambodia? This is a history rabbit hole i haven’t went down yet
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor is a personal account of a person's experience in the genocide. It is very very good and very very sad.
Haing Ngor would eventually escape to the United States where he starred with Sam Watersan in the 1980s movie The Killing Fields (a great movie) about the genocide where he won an Academy Award. Ngor was eventually murdered in a botched robbery in Los Angeles.
Posted on 4/18/25 at 1:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Crazy part is there is a segment of the Cambodian population that thinks all the genocide was Vietnamese mole planted in the movement pushing all the killing. That Pol Pot was a great leader that had increased rice production and had the country on the right track.
Posted on 4/19/25 at 11:31 am to Kcrad
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Please explain this to me like I'm 20 and don't know a damned thing about history.
The US supported this crazy man and his reign because they were worried about Vietnamese and Russian influence in the region
The US govt voted for the khmer rouge to retain Cambodia's UN seat until 1993
Posted on 4/19/25 at 2:13 pm to Midtiger farm
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The US supported this crazy man and his reign because they were worried about Vietnamese and Russian influence in the region
This is nonsense, there is literally zero evidence of US support for Pol Pot. There were allegations that the US sent support to the Khmer Rouge *after* Pot had been deposed, but these were made by notorious pro-Soviet loons and carry almost no weight with historians.
This post was edited on 4/19/25 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 4/19/25 at 4:33 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The most hilarious story of a Western do-gooder elite egging on foreign savages and expecting to be treated as a hero is the story of journalist Malcolm Caldwell. "He was a consistent critic of American foreign policy, a campaigner for Asian communist and socialist movements and a supporter of the Khmer Rouge" according to Wikipedia.
He traveled to Cambodia, and met with Pol Pot. He must have felt so happy to meet his bloody hero.
A few hours later, Pol Pot had him murdered.
He traveled to Cambodia, and met with Pol Pot. He must have felt so happy to meet his bloody hero.
A few hours later, Pol Pot had him murdered.
Posted on 4/19/25 at 7:02 pm to EmperorGout
Correct, but US bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War did spark revolution in Cambodia which led to the Khmer Rouge taking over and the fact that we quit funding the Cambodian military
Posted on 4/19/25 at 7:16 pm to ManWithNoNsme
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Because they didn’t have guns
The ARVN didn't have guns?
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