In the good old days of the cold war, it was relatively easy to pick your camp, the Capitalist West, or the Communist East, and of course, in both these camps, you had dissenters. Those fighting for freedom in the Eastern...
INTRODUCTION TO PAILIN Pailin is a backwater border town between Cambodia and Thailand that is very much off of the Cambodia tourist trail. There are though enough things to make a trip to Pailin worth your while, and of course, it...
Angkar, which loosely translated to “the organization” in the Khmer language was to become one of the most feared words in Democratic Kampuchea, and even today holds negative connotations. The rise of Angkar Whilst the Khmer Rouge were well known as...
In 1982 the Communist Party of Kampuchea, or as it was more commonly known the Khmer Rouge changed its name to the Party of Democratic Kampuchea. The party led the Coalition Governmejt of Democratic Kampuchea, and for a time at lest was...
