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Each month our crack team of wacky reporters takes you into the heart of Khmer culture on the highways and byways of Southeast Asia. Extreme Khmer is a video podcast done entirely in Khmer and intended for students who have completed at least one year of university-level Khmer study.

SONG NAME: "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap This is a video on the three horrible years of Cambodia's history, where 2 million people died.

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In the fall of 2000, twenty-five years after the end of the war in Indochina, Bill Clinton became the first US president since Richard Nixon to visit Vietnam. While media coverage of the trip was dominated by talk of some two thousand US soldiers still classified as missing in action, a small act of great historical importance went almost unnoticed. As a humanitarian gesture, Clinton released extensive Air Force data on all American bombings of Indochina between 1964 and 1975. Recorded using a groundbreaking IBM-designed system, the database provided extensive information on sorties conducted over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Clinton's gift was intended to assist in the search for unexploded ordnance left behind during the carpet bombing of the region. Littering the countryside, often submerged under farmland, this ordnance remains a significant humanitarian concern. It has maimed and killed farmers, and rendered valuable land all but unusable. Development and de-mining organizations have put the Air Force data to good use over the past six years, but have done so without noting its full implications, which turn out to be staggering. The Bombing Database The still-incomplete database (it has several "dark" periods) reveals that from October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons' worth, dropped in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites. Just over 10 percent of this bombing was indiscriminate, with 3,580 of the sites listed as having "unknown" targets and another 8,238 sites having no target listed at all. Even if the latter may arguably be oversights, the former suggest explicit knowledge of indiscretion. The database also shows that the bombing began four years earlier than is widely believed -- not under Nixon, but under Lyndon Johnson. The impact of this bombing, the subject of much debate for the past three decades, is now clearer than ever. Civilian casualties in Cambodia drove an enraged populace into the arms of an insurgency that had enjoyed relatively little support until the bombing began, setting in motion the expansion of the Vietnam War deeper into Cambodia, a coup d'état in 1970, the rapid rise of the Khmer Rouge, and ultimately the Cambodian genocide. The data demonstrates that the way a country chooses to exit a conflict can have disastrous consequences. It therefore speaks to contemporary warfare as well, including US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite many differences, a critical similarity links the war in Iraq with the Cambodian conflict: an increasing reliance on air power to battle a heterogeneous, volatile insurgency.

These three Khmer heroes died in the cause of protecting Khmer land at Preah Vihear. Please take a minute to pray and pay respects to those who died.

More Khmer karaoke fun THIS VIDEO IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUSICAL ARTIST OR ANIME COMPANY IN ANY WAY.

Khmer Surin CVM-21: Ktorm Duol

Khmer CVM-6: Preng Min Dol by Song Seng & Sai Chai

Khmer Song, Preah Sovath

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Cambodia Puts Khmer Rouge Reign of Terror on Trial

2003_Weight: 75 Kg Red: Eh Phuthong, (Cambodia), age 28 Blue: Faisal Zakariya, (Sudan), age 29 On October 2002, the Cambodian Kickboxing Association held their first ever International title fight at a weight group of 75 kg at Borei Keila stadium. Sudan's Faisal Zakariya defeated local hero, Eh Puthong, to become the first kickboxer to lay claim to Cambodia's newly inaugurated "International Championship Belt". Determined to have a home-grown champion, the CBA scheduled a rematch on November 2003 held at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh. This is their rematch.

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It's really high time to let Pol Pot come out of the jungle to tell the world about the killing fields that were secretly created by all Yuon Vietminh and Vietcong, who were still hiding everywhere in the jungles, had tactfully impersonated themselves as the leaders of the super-illiterate-ignorant Khmer Rouge yotheas and former cruel bandits who brutally massacred too far many million Cambodian gentle-innocent peoples in the name of the mysterious Angkar Leur/Cap Tren Yuon: 1. 13 days, Pol Pot's wishes before he died 2. 13 days before he died, told the world and his Khmer children "Please don't let Yuon swallow up Cambodia. I tell you when I will die; I do not regret anything like Yuon swallowing up Cambodia." Pol Pot spoke about overthrowing him is that "When they toppled the Democratic Kampuchea in 1979, they already had a plan was a Front, led by Hun Sen and Chea Sim." Pol Pot, who was believed to be responsible for killing Cambodians under his rule in 1975-1979, said the suffering tragedies are Yuon who created in order to divide and rule Cambodians; my brain can't let me say this. "First of all, it's historical fact that in 1975, the Vietnamese liberated the South on 30 April. They told us many years ago that they were going to liberate Kampuchea too. They wanted to occupy Kampuchea. Secondly, they invaded Kampuchea at the end of 1978. My friends, my movement and I didn't submit to them but fought back with the support of the international community until the Paris agreements (1991)." Pol Pot liberated his country from the imperialist Yankees in 1975; he should have kept all wealths, gold and diamonds for some of his surviving brothers and sisters to live in luxurious villas with air-conditioner like the present Prime Minister-Hun Sen. His brother Saloth Neap, who is living in a poor house that was built on many stilts in Kompong Cham, fanning himself speaking to the reporter with a kind of natural-palm-leaf fan. And he really keeps wondering why his brother, Pol Pot, would make his people so much suffering like that. Even Neap himself painfully suffered so much under Pol Pot's regime: Saloth Neap, Pol Pot's brother is living in a bamboo hut with palm-leafs wall in Kompong Charm province, poor family by telling the world that, "When he was young, he was a very gentle person and studied hard." "I didn't tell my family so they wouldn't worry about me." Pol Pot unbelievably said, "That made people think I didn't care about them. It was so that if I was arrested, they wouldn't be involved." "Even when he was young who was always a gentle person." Neap was still so puzzled; "He used to be a very nice person. How could he make people suffer like this?"

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The Story of Khmer Great Empire

February 2004 Under the Khmer Rouge, almost a quarter of Cambodia's population perished. Now a deal has been brokered to finally put its leaders on trial.

AYAI by Prom Manh on his trip back to Cambodia 2007

May 2006 The long wait for justice is almost over for the Khmer Rouge's victims. With the trial now scheduled to start, surviving victims are revisiting the scenes of Pol Pot's atrocities.

The photographs of the victims from the Cambodian genocide are what really haunt you. There's a huge discussion of this topic on my blog, http://www.vagabonding.com/travelogue/000060.html Here's an entry I wrote about this: Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and Genocide in Cambodia During their three-year, eight-month, and 21-day rule of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge committed some of the most heinous crimes in modern history: - The entire population of Cambodia's urban areas was evacuated from their homes and forced to march into rural areas to work the fields. - Every man, woman, and child was forced into slave labor for 12-15 hours each day. - An estimated two million people (21% of Cambodia's population) lost their lives. Many of these victims were brutally executed; many more died of starvation, exhaustion, and disease. That these crimes were committed so recently (1975-1978) makes them all the more sickening. The country's scars are still plainly visible: - The population is suspiciously youthful (50% is under the age of 15). - The economy is in shambles. This is partially thanks to the Khmer Rouge's execution of the upper and educated classes. The fact that they destroyed most of the vehicles and machines in the cities can't have helped. - New human remains turn up around the exhumed mass graves of the Killing Fields of Cheoung Ek on a daily basis. Silent reminders of the tragedy, these bones and teeth are ceremoniously placed into makeshift shrines in tree hollows and cement planters. It's hard to comprehend the motivations behind an atrocity like the Cambodian genocide. What could have been going through the minds of the Khmer Rouge officers and their leader Pol Pot? "Hey Pol, I've got an idea, man. Let's turn the country upside down and get real primitive. Evacuate all the cities, march everyone out to the country. And then start farming, man! Big time. And if anyone resists, let's execute them. In fact, let's kill a whole lot of people. I'm talking hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions. And do it real cruel-like. Bash their heads against trees, electrocute 'em, drown 'em in vats of cold water..." Fear must have been the prevailing motivator in the regime. How could an officer commit such monstrous crimes against his own countrymen? For fear that something even worse would happen to him. The Khmer Rouge atrocity seems to follow a time-honored recipe for genocide: the obsessive desire to reach a religious or political ideal coupled with a healthy dose of madness. Why don't we learn? It seems as if past atrocities of genocide haven't served as a warning, but instead as a blueprint for how to repeat them. But if history has proven human beings to be intrinsically fallible, it has also proven us to be extraordinarily resilient. Pol Pot cast a heavy shadow over Cambodia, but the people have managed to persevere, begin anew, and find joy in life again. 
-- If you'd like to learn more about the genocide in Cambodia, visit the Yale Cambodian Genocide Project at http://www.yale.edu/cgp/.

Finally, Season Three of Extreme Khmer is here! According to our tradition, we begin in Surin, where we interview an 80-year-old Kuy man about his experiences trapping and training elephants in Cambodia and Thailand. Check out the extras to this episode on studykhmer.com, plus watch a higher-quality version of the video.

Jason Chambers vs OPhou Thong

Opposition leaders, monks and villagers took part in a somber ceremony. Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the Khmer Rouge started their regime in the capital's infamous killing fields. The 33rd anniversary of "Year Zero," when the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule in Cambodia began, has been marked by criticism because of the slow process to prosecute the group's leaders. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy criticizes the government for the long delay of the trial. He told mourners not to forget the killing fields and urged the tribunal to prosecute the former Khmer Rouge leaders. [Sam Rainsy, Opposition Leader]: "We must never forget this day and we ask the Khmer Rouge tribunal with the participation of the United Nation to prosecute the former Khmer Rouge leaders in an effective way so as to bring justice to the victims of the Khmer Rouge and their families." No Khmer Rouge leader has ever faced trial. During the rule, an estimated 1.7 million people died of starvation, forced labor... and many were executed. Survivors of the genocide want justice to be served. [Yeng Phai, Khmer Rouge Regime Survivor]: "I want the tribunal to prosecute the Khmer Rouge leaders soon so that I know how they tortured and killed my children and husband. I want the tribunal to punish them the same as when they killed the victims." A U.N.-backed court recently unveiled a proposal to extend the long-awaited tribunal's three-year life span by two years and drag out the proceedings until 2011.