{"id":133,"date":"2016-02-22T17:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-08-05T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:40:23","slug":"pol-pots-bathroom-and-other-remains-of-the-khmer-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Pol Pot&#8217;s bathroom and other remains of the Khmer Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> That\u2019s the title of a new series of photos and videos I posted on <em>Flickr<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/sign-pol-pots-crematie-plek-350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/sign-pol-pots-crematie-plek-350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/sign-pol-pots-crematie-plek-350-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Cambodia much more remains of the Khmer Rouge than the Killing \nFields of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng prison, the two well-known and \nhorrifying reminders of their brutal reign.<br> In Anlong Veng and \nPailin, Khmer Rouge strongholds along the Thai border long after they \nlost control of the country as a whole, houses of top leaders Pol Pot, \nTa Mok and Khieu Samphan can still be found. With difficulty sometimes: \nsee the &#8216;live&#8217; videos of my search for Pol Pot\u2019s house outside Anlong \nVeng in the forests of the Dangrek Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Khieu Samphan\u2019s house in Pailin an awkward surprise: his family still lives there. Embarrassed I didn\u2019t take photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As to Pol Pot the places where he was tried and cremated can also still be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the enormous water reservoirs the Khmer Rouge built using \nforced labor still exist, as does a now deserted airport built during \ntheir reign, including in its vicinity hidden silo&#8217;s and tunnels, signs \nmaybe of the Khmer Rouge&#8217;s paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what happend to the people who were part of the Khmer Rouge?  Apart from the top leaders no one was tried. Many of their former  soldiers were recruited into the Cambodian government army that they  previously fought against. In an ironic twist of history they now defend  Cambodia against their former supporters the Thai army, in a conflict  over border temples that both countries claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See photos and videos here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pieterneele\/albums\/72157664483775632.\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pieterneele\/albums\/72157664483775632<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or if the link doesn\u2019t work click \u2018Photos\u2019 in the menu at the left and then \u2018Albums\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the title of a new series of photos and videos I posted on Flickr. In Cambodia much more remains of the Khmer Rouge than the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng prison, the two well-known and horrifying reminders of their brutal reign. In Anlong Veng and Pailin, Khmer Rouge strongholds along the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pol Pot&#8217;s bathroom and other remains of the Khmer Rouge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}