![]() When the Khmer Rouge officially ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, its leaders orchestrated the genocide of roughly a quarter of the country’s population of 7.8 million people. The journalists had it right in this case. But the journalists all broadcast that Cambodian people killed other Cambodians.” “I’ve heard that people took on fake identities to kill innocent Cambodian people.” A tall boy in the row behind her agreed: “The Vietnamese faked their identities as Cambodian people. When the video ended, the soft-spoken workshop leader Ly Sok Kheang asked the kids: “Do you think Cambodian people could have killed other Cambodians?”Ī girl sitting in the back stood up. In Anlong Veng, it is widely understood that Vietnamese people - not the Khmer Rouge - were behind the worst violence that devastated Cambodia and that Khmer Rouge war heroes tried to stop them. ![]() ![]() It also reaches deep into the crevices of human feeling - in kitchen table conversations and on TikTok alike - leading to a thickening of anger, loss, and sadness. Nostalgia has both been harnessed for political ends and become its own political force, electrifying powerful currents of populism, jingoism, and longing for dynastic rule. ![]()
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