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Phnom Penh is probably the most sobering cities to visit in all of Asia. Words can't really do it justice. I was neither expecting nor prepared for the history

Phnom Penh is probably the most sobering cities to visit in all of Asia. Words can't really do it justice. I was neither expecting nor prepared for the history there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

boppo1 4y ago
QRD on what Kissinger had to do with this? I've no doubt he's a bad guy, but my schooling left out his involvement in cambodia.
- hayst4ck 4y ago
  I swear I heard Bourdain talk about this in an episode from one of his series. The laos episode hits on the topic, but the Cambodia episode is only available for pay. Laos (Start at 32:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1s8jntlpK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1s8jntlpK0 Shamelessly stolen from reddit, quoted from a broken link from Yale: 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. 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. In video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpKFBTutW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpKFBTutW8
- MengerSponge 4y ago
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boppo1 4y ago

QRD on what Kissinger had to do with this? I've no doubt he's a bad guy, but my schooling left out his involvement in cambodia.

hayst4ck 4y ago
I swear I heard Bourdain talk about this in an episode from one of his series. The laos episode hits on the topic, but the Cambodia episode is only available for pay. Laos (Start at 32:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1s8jntlpK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1s8jntlpK0 Shamelessly stolen from reddit, quoted from a broken link from Yale: 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. 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. In video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpKFBTutW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpKFBTutW8
MengerSponge 4y ago
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