A collection of Khmer Rouge images and photos found across social media and the internet. Mostly propaganda and personal images, not of the horrors faced by the people under the regime.
ol Pot in Beijing on 22 October 1977- Thought to be the last photo of Pol Pot while he was in power before he retreated into jungle more than two years later. Deng Xiaoping is on the left and Hua Guofeng in the foreground. Between Hua and Pol Pot, is Ieng Sary, Minister foreign affairs and Pol Pot’s brother-in-law. Ieng Sary attends the 30th independence day festivities in Vieng Xay, Laos The Khmer Rouge delegates had thought festivities would take place in Vientiane. They didn’t want to go to Vieng Xay but did so anyway as not going would have had “a political impact”. “Cambodians enthusiastically plunge into agricultural production” China Pictoral, Beijing printed magazineWomen at the rice mill in Saang Koh Thom sifting rice for the construction site, water management system, dryland construction site and nutrition front.
Archiving (DC-Cam)Albanian news photo of factory near PP, 1978The Khmer Rouge regime printed money, which was never usedChinese ‘advisors’ and KR, Siem Reap, late 1970’sFamily, 1975Khoy Thoun, leading KR member, later executed at S-21 during the purges of 1977Ponchentong, 1975Eastern zoneWomen fighters, Eastern ZoneKhmer Rouge wedding ceremony (looks like pre-Soviet split)
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Absolutely fascinating. We just returned from Cambodia. Lots of unanswered questions. How and why did the KR get a hold of the population to that extent? The whole basis of Marxist revolution is that it is driven from the bottom upwards. Extraordinary
Absolutely fascinating. We just returned from Cambodia. Lots of unanswered questions. How and why did the KR get a hold of the population to that extent? The whole basis of Marxist revolution is that it is driven from the bottom upwards. Extraordinary
If you want more reading this list is not at all bad: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/89571.Books_set_in_Khmer_Rouge_Cambodia – maybe try First They Killed My Father first. It was a Maoist revolution so lot’s of parallels with what was going on in China at the same time.