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Hellish life before the KR Apocalypse - Do you still remember?
31 Mar 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- 3/31/1975- Prek Phnou, Cambodia- Young Cambodian girls take up defensive positions in home at Prek Phnou, some 6 miles north of Phnom Penh's Higway 5. Meanwhile, government sources said 3/31 that President Lon Nol will leave Cambodia sometime this week, probably for good. Heavy shelling attacks were reported at the Mekong River enclave of Neak Luong and nearby outpost at Banam, 130 miles south of Phnom Penh. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
31 Mar 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- Prek Phnau, Cambodia: Homeless Cambodian orphans sit idle while waiting for their turn to receive a bowl of cooked-rice at a refugee camp here 6 miles north of the Cambodian capital March 31. The American airlift of good and other supplies continue to operate despite pre-dawn rocket attacks by the communists at the airport. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
29 Mar 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Cambodian Refugee. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: President Ford sent White House photographer David Hume Kennerly to Vietnam and Cambodia to assess the situation and take pictures of what he saw. The White House released pictures of Cambodian refugees, April 6. Taken March 29, 1975, a Cambodian girl waits in a refugee center, wearing a dog-tag as a trinket. March 29, 1975. --- Image by David Kennerly/CORBIS
29 Mar 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Phnom Penh, Cambodia: President Ford sent his personal photographer, David Hume Kennerly, to Vietnam and Cambodia to assess the situation. The White House released pictures, April 6, of what he saw. Here is a Cambodian child suffering from malnutrition in a Phnom Penh hospital, March 29. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
3/26/1975-Phnom Penh, Cambodia- A badly wounded mother, hurt in rebel rocket attack, continues to nurse her baby while being evacuated aboard Navy boat from Vhang War Island in Mekong River. Communist-led rebels captured a strategic stretch of riverfront two miles north of Phnom Penh 3/26, advancing the closest ever to the Cambodian capital. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
08 Apr 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- Much Needed Food. Prek Phnau, Cambodia: Children in this war-torn country reach out for their portion of rice from Red Cross worker here some 3.6 miles from the capital. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
4/2/75-Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A woman holds her child, who was wounded during a rocket attack on Phnom Penh by communist-led insurgents March 24. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
April 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Cambodian Child in Wheelbarrow --- Image by Francoise de Mulder/CORBIS
31 Mar 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- 3/31/1975- Prek Phnou, Cambodia- Young Cambodian girls take up defensive positions in home at Prek Phnou, some 6 miles north of Phnom Penh's Higway 5. Meanwhile, government sources said 3/31 that President Lon Nol will leave Cambodia sometime this week, probably for good. Heavy shelling attacks were reported at the Mekong River enclave of Neak Luong and nearby outpost at Banam, 130 miles south of Phnom Penh. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
31 Mar 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- Prek Phnau, Cambodia: Homeless Cambodian orphans sit idle while waiting for their turn to receive a bowl of cooked-rice at a refugee camp here 6 miles north of the Cambodian capital March 31. The American airlift of good and other supplies continue to operate despite pre-dawn rocket attacks by the communists at the airport. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
29 Mar 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Cambodian Refugee. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: President Ford sent White House photographer David Hume Kennerly to Vietnam and Cambodia to assess the situation and take pictures of what he saw. The White House released pictures of Cambodian refugees, April 6. Taken March 29, 1975, a Cambodian girl waits in a refugee center, wearing a dog-tag as a trinket. March 29, 1975. --- Image by David Kennerly/CORBIS
29 Mar 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Phnom Penh, Cambodia: President Ford sent his personal photographer, David Hume Kennerly, to Vietnam and Cambodia to assess the situation. The White House released pictures, April 6, of what he saw. Here is a Cambodian child suffering from malnutrition in a Phnom Penh hospital, March 29. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
3/26/1975-Phnom Penh, Cambodia- A badly wounded mother, hurt in rebel rocket attack, continues to nurse her baby while being evacuated aboard Navy boat from Vhang War Island in Mekong River. Communist-led rebels captured a strategic stretch of riverfront two miles north of Phnom Penh 3/26, advancing the closest ever to the Cambodian capital. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
08 Apr 1975, Prek Phnov, Cambodia --- Much Needed Food. Prek Phnau, Cambodia: Children in this war-torn country reach out for their portion of rice from Red Cross worker here some 3.6 miles from the capital. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
4/2/75-Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A woman holds her child, who was wounded during a rocket attack on Phnom Penh by communist-led insurgents March 24. --- Image by Bettmann/CORBIS
April 1975, Phnom Penh, Cambodia --- Cambodian Child in Wheelbarrow --- Image by Francoise de Mulder/CORBIS
21 comments:
Seeing these pictures has brought back a lot of sad souvenirs during the Cambodian civil war of 1970-75.
The war was indeed so unnecessary if the Khmers from all sides who had professed to love Cambodia with all their hearts and souls had set aside their differences, personal ambitions and goals for the sake of Cambodia and her ordinary people in order to be able to work together to defend Cambodia from the deadly and true threat of North and South Vietnam's ambition subjugate Cambodia.
Are we genetically inclined to fight among ourselves till the end of Cambodia?
Anet Khmer
Seeing these pictures has brought back a lot of sad souvenirs during the Cambodian civil war of 1970-75.
The war was indeed so unnecessary if the Khmers from all sides who had professed to love Cambodia with all their hearts and souls had set aside their differences, personal ambitions and goals for the sake of Cambodia and her ordinary people in order to be able to work together to defend Cambodia from the deadly and true threat of North and South Vietnam's ambition to subjugate Cambodia.
Are we genetically inclined to fight among ourselves till the end of Cambodia?
This is the time to realize that we can no longer fight among ourselves if we want to have any hope of seeing a truly independent Cambodia for new generation of Cambodians
Anet Khmer
Don't waste your time,dear people fallow Suon Sery Ratha,Thach Ngok Thach,Ly Diep,Uon Sim and Preah Ko ,Preah Kaew and Our Lord Buddha.
Communists haven't any LORD BUDDHA;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrBbRN-5YOA
It was sadness & tragedy for Cambodia & its People.
Yietcong had poured its War into Cambodia and burned our House to the ground.They had created the monsters,Khmer Rouges,who killed so many khmers innocents until the end of the killing field.
Yietcong invaded & stopped the killing and they said to have saving
Khmer nation from the evilly Khmer Rouge regime.
Do we have to thank our Yietcong-Neighbour who had burned our House,Cambodia ,and saved us ????
Not long ago,they had a plot of K5 operation to kill Khmer People & its nation,a silence Genocide against humanity in Cambodia.
In January 1984, Le Duc Tho, a long-term ally of the Cambodian communist movement and the Communist Party of Vietnam Politburo member responsible for the Cambodian dossier, chaired a political seminar for the People's Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (PRPK) Central Committee and the PRK Council of Ministers which focused on 'the urgent task of consolidating the grass-root infrastructure of the PRK regime, the imperative need for a definitive solution to eliminate the Khmer resistance movements, and the all-round integration of Kampuchea into the Indochinese Socialist Bloc.' [7] This seminar was most probably the genes is o K5.
A defector from the PRK later reported that the K5 programme of border defence work was initiated in 'March 1984 under the supervision of a committee headed by [then] Foreign Minister Hun Sen and comprising a senior Vietnamese adviser and vice-ministers from each of the ministries...' [8] The committee he referred to was the Central Leadership Committee of K5 (kenna kommatikar doeknuam mechem kor prahm), However, Hun Sen, now Prime Minister, has denied that he was the head of this committee:
K5 started in 1984 before I became Prime Minister. K5 was under the responsibility of the Ministry for National Defence. Responsibility was allocated to the provincial authorities along with the [military] division stationed in that area. The recruiting of new forces or the sending of the people to participate in the Plan had to be determined by sub-decree or a decision of the Council of Ministers. [9]
Archival documents from the Council of Ministers and Council of State relating to KS rarely refer to its leadership. They often state that final responsibility for K5 belonged to the Party Secretariat and the Council of Ministers and, as implied in Hun Sen's statement above, the Chairman of the latter body was the nominal head of the Central Leadership Committee of K5, which was made up of Party officials and vice-ministers. The permanent deputy head was in charge of day-to-day affairs. Thus leadership of KS was provided by its Central Leadership Committee and within that by a Permanent K5 Commission. Soy Keo, Chief of General Staff and a Vice-Minister for National Defence, was the permanent deputy head of the K5 Committee [10] until his dismissal as Chief of Staff following the Fifth Party Congress of October 1985, when Nhim Vanda took over his K5 role. [11] Chea Dara was referred to as a Vice-Chairman of the Permanent KS Commission in April 1986, and an early 1987 document mentions Khvan Seam in the same ro le. [12] That same April 1987 document specifically names Nhim Vanda as 'Vice-Minister of the Ministry for Planning and Permanent Deputy-Head of the Central Leadership Committee of K5'; and in February 1989, Lt. Gen. Nhim Vanda was still the head (protean) of the Permanent K5 Commission. [13] All official documents relating to K5 refer to a decision of the Politburo, No. 228SRMCh of 17 July 1984, so that it can be assumed that the K5 Plan was officially adopted by the Party and the state on that date.
Poor Cambodia.
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what sad too was the KR destroyed cambodia and killed or starved or deprived khmer people and citizens close to over 2 millions deaths as a result. that was sad for not own cambodian history, but world history as well, you know! those of us who lived through this dark period of cambodia and survived are indeed very lucky people! they say that only the strongest survived; that was so truth during the backward, stupid, brutal KR regime! cambodia and khmer people are resilient. they say as long as there is the sun and the moon shining on our planet, cambodia and khmer people will always survive forever as a race and as a nation. god bless cambodia and all our beautiful khmer people and citizens.
Dear LOK KHMUOY AH NET KHMER,
Who started first / Ask SIHANOUK !
Who fought KHMER REPUBLIC ( Cambodia ) first ? were Vietcong and North Vietnamese Troops , in 1970 , there was no KHMER ROUGES attacking KHMER REPUBLIC, so there was NO CIVIL WAR in Cambodia , there was Vietnamese Invasion in 1970 and again second time in 1979, I was there LOK KHMUOY AH NET KHMER .
Best wishes
The Young KHMER REPUBLIC
i remember our innocent people's suffering and i suffer with my people. Those who directly and indirectly caused the little babies to cry and the mothers to weep in pain, they will face the judgement of God. Nothing more nothing less than perfect divine justice.
Whom's fucking cause from the beginning of this destructions?. Wish GOD granted me the knowledge and the wisdom to restore the destiny of my Country and Change the whole world for better place for all mankind.
Who brought this war to Cambodia ? It was Sihanouk who brought this war.He allowed Vietnamese soldiers and Vietcong to kill Khmer soldiers and Khmer people.Sihanouk must tell Khmer people the truth.
between 1970-75, one can say it was hell, carnage, and vicious. it was all for the destruction of a country, people, society and paved the way for the near extermination of the Cambodian people and social fabric. So younger generations of Cambodian must know and take heed. Otherwise history has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
Ah hun sen sihanouk is too odl to lie youn khmer anymore .
Pi ah tor hia used to be khmer citizen.
DUPM "The Young KHMER REPUBLIC",
the answer is in your question,
why you start second ???
Anet wants to say,
don't start,
don't start first and
don't start second..
It was so sad and remembered all thing. I was defend at Toul Keiy about 20 km. south west P. Penh rout n# 3 at that time. May god bless all khmer republic.
Dear My Brother KHMER REPUBLIC Soldier of 3Rd Division,
Plaese accept my sincer honor and special respect to you and your Division, your commander must be General NGUON LY KHEANG, You all had protected us from the KHMER ROUGE , you even sacrefied your lives and families for us.
LOVE AND BEST REGRADS
The YOUNG KHMER REPUBLIC
Such picture Sihanouk has never interrested n.
Dear all brothers,
Without Sihanouk behind Khmer Rouge, KR has never chance to win Gen. Lon Nol. Sihaouk must go to trial with KR because he was the actor of this war.
Thanks to 2:45 am, General Nguon lykheang was at Kambol another command post operational 3rd division , he was taken by Khmer Rouge with his troops and sent to Phnom Tmatporng. This information i got from one of his body guard that i meet at Kg Chhnang during Pol Pot regime.
Dear EX FANK,
Thank you so much once again with my personal salute to your 3rd division and General NGUON LY KHEANG ...We have so many comments to be discussing and I feel so much dissapointed losing the war to the Communists and the Vietnamese...I wish I could meet you in person
Best Wishes with honors to you and the fallen KHMER REPUBLIC Soldoers.
The YOUNG KHMER REPUBLIC
crazy war only brought displacement, suffering, destruction, etc! i think there are more ways to negotiate than to make war, etc. national pride can be hard to deal with, however, it could also be put to use in an unprecedented way as well! think about it. war isn't always the solution, really! i think in the future, it a country wants to go to war, they should make sure to run a national survey to see if all the people in that country is agreed to go to war. because, look around, it is always the children, the vulnerable, etc, who suffered the most. these picture told a thousand words. sad, isn't it!
11:20AM you think that with divine power you can make the world a perfect place? you can't even tame your own tongue and avoid obscenities - how can anyone trust you to do the right thing?
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