A Survivor's Story of the Khmer Rouge Cambodian Genocide - ABC News Nightline - July 4, 2000
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2019
- Ung Bin Meng, a 30 year old Cambodian-American woman, describes her moving ordeal as a child when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh 25 years earlier and began killing one in four of the country's people. Her survivor's story is passed on to young Cambodian-Americans & she and other survivors provide testimony at a special 4th of July candlelight vigil held at the University of Washington.
I’m reading her memoir right now about her experience and it’s something that needs to be read in schools because the Cambodian genocide is truly forgotten in the west and we barely went over it in high school
We nerve went over it in high school. I just came across it
I couldn’t believe I had no idea it happened until watching Angelina Jolie’s movie on it the other day!!😢
I remember having to read this memoir in high school and i literally cried one night over it. Now im doing a research paper on the topic of the Khmer Rouge to shed more light on this genocide 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I just watched the movie on Netflix and I couldn’t help crying such a sad movie
She’s so brave
its 2020 and I am comparing this situation to the crisis in Burma that is still ongoing. We need to do better in the world.
Can you please tell me what is going on in Burma right now? I work with a lot of Burmese and they say what goes on in Rambo 4 is still happening now.
We needed to do better when the Balkan wars and rwanda happened. Its like we never learn.
Really touching
My MIL and one of my very good friends are from Cambodia. Both never talk about it. I’m shocked that schools don’t talk about it. My friend described one memory she has where her mother stopped to use the bathroom in the jungle. Her mother’s friend decided to keep going. She stepped on a land mine and died instantly. My MIL on the other hand never speaks of it. She vowed to never return to her hometown.
Amazing story and it really saddens me. I never knew of this until now
Learning about the life of someone that died tragically would be harder even that learning of their death. How sad to see a face and hear of their death, how much sadder to hear of their lives and hopes and dreams knowing how it all ended.
Watching one day before Independence Day 2021.
I think it's insane that what happened in Cambodia is not more widely known or talked about.
Yup. I only knew about the genocide when i was 13 years old. Even my mum never know about this. Anyway, i am from Malaysia.🇲🇾
I was listening with my back turned & had to double take at 11:13, probably the last thing I expected to see in a video about the Khmer Rouge.
Powerful
Just watched the film and It was so awful, if that is communism you can keep it. Such suffering for those poor people, and I never knew the story.
Yet idiots in the west think its some utopian shit. Theyre morons. Fuck communism. All it brings is death and suffering
I’m stunned and speechless by Pol Pot and therefore have no comment on it here, but I just wanted to say I appreciate these vintage advertisements not being cut out
She is so beautiful!
Meet me some day I I want to treat you same like that
Thank you for sharing this crucial documentary. I just watched the movie directed by Angelina Jolie.
Half my family are survivors of the Khmer Rouge
Was this the entire episode? Or was any other segments released?
She really based on the girl from “first they killed my father “
My fiancé is khmer band I’ve been there a few times . I don’t ask about that time or do I want to know . I find the people of Cambodia are friendly and happy
For all people who think that learning about history whether it's good or terrible take not that those who fail to learn history are destined to repeat it. The recent wars and criminal acts are a prime example of this fact.
As a former Marine I am appalled that so many people refuse to learn history. You will be the losers in the long run. Semper Fi to all My Marine brothers and sisters current and past.
First, thanks for your service
Second, you are correct about those who refuse to learn history
Third, the similarities from Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Saloth Sar are very horrifying
The killing fileds movie is incredible....the actor who plays dith pran haing ngor his story is even worse than the movie...called survival in the killing fields.......please read the book.....brings tears to youe eyes but you have to read a d how he survived survived its incredible
Ironically the good doctor Haing Nor would be killed during a mugging in 1996
The world stood still and did nothing during this atrocity.
Việt Nam đã hành động!
Angeline Jolie made a movie about her on Netflix I believe.
Yes. It is called, "First, They Killed My Father." Something like that.
I just watched it! Now I’m hooked on learning more. They definitely don’t teach this stuff in the American education system
@@camille8926 I watched it great movie so sad. I myself was born in 1975 8 months after the Khmer Rouge invaded Phnom Penn. However my family we were so lucky my dad was Lon Nol( fought against thr Khmer Rouge) front line private. We were able to escaped to Thailand boarder prior to April of 1975 invasion of Phnom Penn.
Imagine being a left-wing academic attacking this woman calling her a liar and a propagandist for criticizing the communist ideas that led to the Cambodian genocide.
Crazy this was over 20 years ago
God bless Cambodia
I tried to hold on to my tear while watching this ...
I dont know that this is what they been through...
we all have family members died during that time - Every cambodians does !
The United States and Nixon played a part in setting the stage for this Cambodian Holocaust.
No they didn’t, America tried to help the Cambodians fight the Khmer Rouge but the Cambodian prince Sihanouk refused to do so, later even joining the Khmer Rouge in a cynical power grab (predictably they deposed him as soon as they gained power).
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🌸🇺🇸🇺🇸Cambodia 🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🤝👏👏🙌🏼
What a beautiful and amazing representation of a nation this woman. She's kind, shes the real human being
Pol Pot himself said that he had read Marx, yet couldn't understand much of it, so he started reading Stalin. Great job.
Why I turned my back on president hunseng even tho I’m cambodian
Because he is former Khmer Rouge
Pol pot
Tel them , USA overthrown your king Because he decided to be neutral and chose Lon Nol instead.
First they killed my father. Moving book.