Civil war in cambodia

In 1967, in Cambodia, in opposition to the authorities, for the first time the «Khmer Rouge», who considered themselves a Communist party, manifested themselves. The American B-52s, who dropped 2, 75 million tons of bombs here, the authoritarian rule of the president, premier and defense minister Lol Nola prepared the soil of chaos for the germination of the most monstrous seeds of totalitarianism. On April 17, 1975, the «Khmer Rouge» captured the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Residents of the 3 million city meet the «Khmer Rouge» as liberators, but, within 72 hours, almost all are evicted from the capital. The existence of cities, in the opinion of the «Khmer» — the incorrigible abodes of vice, «creates inequality among the inhabitants,» communism should be built within a few days. The supply of water and electricity is stopped. Children are separated from their parents by Polotovsky’s «juvenile justice» (those who try to protest are shot). People who are exposed to the open air are drinking water from ponds and gutters. Angkis (Khmer Rouge) in traditional black uniforms check homes, apartments, shoot at everyone they find there.
A week later, Phnom Penh becomes a ghost town, a refuge for cannibal dogs, except for the quarter where the Khmer leaders themselves are located. Western reporters, flying around the capital in a military helicopter, make out screams of horror.
At the same time (during the hottest season of the year), the rural population moves from the western part of the country to the eastern part, and vice versa.
Formally, the head of the government is now Prince Norodom Sihanouk, but he is held in Khmer under house arrest, and has no influence on the course of events. The infamous Prime Minister of the renamed «Democratic Kampuchea» of Cambodia is the infamous Pol Pot (also known as Brother No. 1). Real name Saloth Sar, Pol Pot — short for the French «politique potentielle», «policy of the possible». Once Salot Sar studied in France, studied radio electronics, joined the French Communist Party (FCP), dropped his studies and returned to his homeland. Further, on the basis of membership in the PCF, he joins the Indochina Communist Party, teaches at the university, works in the propaganda department of the Cambodia People’s Revolutionary Party, and grows up to the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Cambodia. Establishes close ties with the CCP and rebuilds all party activities in a Maoist manner.
The slogan of its «Khmer Rouge» is to stop the policy of ruining the peasantry, end corruption, save the country from foreign dependence, put things in order, which requires a strict political regime. The population is divided into three categories: 1. «The main people» are the privileged inhabitants of the regions not affected by any foreign influence, the poorest peasants. 2. «New people» — inhabitants of cities and villages, long lived in the territories occupied by the Americans; they had to be re-educated. 3. Intelligentsia, clergy, monks, all former government officials and military. They are subject to «cleaning», in fact — physical extermination.
The whole country, like ulcers, is covered by communes with a 16-18-hour working day, in them, along with the peasants, even at night, evicted from their homes work townspeople. Children are socialized, in camps from them they prepare support for the new regime. Fourteen teens are given weapons, they give all power on the ground; they patrol the streets and supervise the work on the plantations. The educational, medical and cultural systems have been abolished, all schools, hospitals and libraries have been closed. Money was abolished (the Central Bank was blown up during the «liberation» of Phnom Penh). All domestic appliances are destroyed. In the orderly order (the head of the commune, the so-called amafibal) is appointed husband and wife. The death penalty is threatened for a fruit plucked from a tree, picked up after harvesting rice, giving birth to a child without permission, nostalgia for the former times, even wearing seemingly suspicious glasses. Outside the court, ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese, and other minorities are being destroyed. Almost all Buddhist monks are killed — about 80,000, all Christians — 60,000. Of the 44,000 Muslims, 4 remain alive. The methods of executions and torture used by the «Khmer Rouge» can be learned independently, and there is no need to bring them here.
Diplomatic contacts Democratic Cambodia supports with China, Albania, North Korea, in part — with Romania and France. Attempts by the KGB to create its own agent network here are failing.
Periodically, the Pol Pot members invade the territory of Vietnam, which is initially perceived by the leadership of this country as the actions of combat groups not controlled by the center. The meaning of provocations, if he was at all, can be found in accusing all other internal problems of another state. However, in his speeches on the radio, Pol Pot states that he hopes «to capture Saigon during his lifetime.» The patience of Vietnam bursts; in December 1978, his troops, trained on Americans and French colonizers, occupied Cambodia; the creation of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea. Mao by this time dies, to help China Pol Pot can not count. The new coalition government enjoys popularity among the people and authority abroad, however, even after revealing all the crimes of the regime, Pol Pot does not arrest and fights against him, hiding in the sparsely populated areas of Kampuchea, Thailand, and China, more by political rather than military methods. Hydra devours itself: each new generation of revolutionaries crushes the former formations of torturers. Only in 1997, when the former dictator reminded himself of the massacre of a former comrade-in-arms and his family; finally lost credibility in his environment, he is found and placed under house arrest. Salot Sar is dying in 1998, from heart failure, or, according to other sources, as a result of poisoning, now it’s hard to know; The body is cremated on the bonfire from automobile tires.
The remaining leaders of the Khmer Rouge are arrested only in 2007. In 1989, after the period of the UN administration and the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops, Cambodia is again called Cambodia.
Officially, the new government recognized the destruction of 2.7 million people, out of a total of 8 million (including from hunger), in addition, 0.7 million people were missing. In all regions of the country, near the big cities and villages stretch the immense «Fields of Death», which testify against those who want to underestimate these figures. In general, according to an unofficial social contract, they try not to remember the past here.
The United States saw in Kampuchea Pol Pot as a threat to the pro-Soviet Vietnam, its recent offender, because they did not intend to seriously engage in «human rights» in this region. The USSR also abstracted from the situation, its leadership, at least this time, did not intend to have any dealings with people who so obviously discredited the idea of socialism. But also immediately to introduce troops to overthrow the regime, which calls itself «communist», did not want to make a fuss about the whole world with another scandal in the camp of the «Reds.» In addition, there were no oil or other minerals in the country that were of any interest to the superpowers.
Currently, some Cambodians are nostalgic for the old days, they say that, «that was the order then», they try to find meaning in the events that happened then, and they consider Pol Pot an outstanding person. Actually, the dictator himself did not sign any orders for mass executions, but in an informal conversation he said: «… the fault lies with me, but, comrade, show me at least one document proving that I am personally responsible for these deaths.»
We can assume that, had it not been for external reasons, in the Soviet Union, after a short respite since 1937, such a scenario could have been realized in 1942; fortunately, this we will never know for sure. If you give a futuristic forecast, the issue of resettlement, destruction and «re-education» of people has not been exhausted yet. Mankind is gaining strength and resources to implement such scenarios, already under other slogans and banners. I personally do not like it, I just say how it will be. The resettlement will cover the planet, from North to South, from East to West, from apartments to huts, and back. Chaos and Sense blend. We need to be prepared for this, in order to give the new World Order at least symbolic resistance, «offset» when weighing the soul.