by Lucky Lucan » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:34 pm
scoffer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:02 pm
Not the best place to be, but at least you weren't dead as some of your family were.
What strikes me as difficult to understand when talking to them is their casual attitude towards violence.
The camps were dangerous places controlled by the various factions of KR/ KPNLF/ FUNCINPEC - who controlled food supply and used the camps as recuperation/ recruiting grounds . Refugees languished there in extreme boredom for many years, there was little to do and the Thai government wouldn't allow much schooling.
She simply stated that to kill the snake you had to kill the family as well, so in order to make a change you had to eliminate the whole family and she stated this without any compassion or remorse.
Well Tum Teav is the most popular folk tale here and describes something similar.
When Teav's mother learns of her daughter's marriage, she feigns illness as a ruse to lure Teav back to her village, whereupon she once again tries to coerce her into marrying Archon's son. Teav sends word to Tum of the impending wedding, and Tum arrives with an edict from the king to stop the ceremony. Tum gets drunk, announces he is Teav's husband and kisses her in public. Enraged, Archoun commands his guards to kill Tum, who is beaten to death under a Bo tree. Grief-stricken, Teav slits her own throat and collapses on Tum's body. When Rama hears of the murder, he descends upon Archoun's palace, ignores the governor's pleas for mercy, and orders Archoun's entire family—including seven generations worth of relatives—be taken to a field and buried to their necks. An iron plow and harrow are then used to decapitate them all.
This is a great description of the camps with fantastic photos:
https://www.blurb.com/books/9121252-liv ... -nightmare
[quote=scoffer post_id=989500 time=1572339739 user_id=239]
Not the best place to be, but at least you weren't dead as some of your family were.
What strikes me as difficult to understand when talking to them is their casual attitude towards violence.
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The camps were dangerous places controlled by the various factions of KR/ KPNLF/ FUNCINPEC - who controlled food supply and used the camps as recuperation/ recruiting grounds . Refugees languished there in extreme boredom for many years, there was little to do and the Thai government wouldn't allow much schooling.
[quote]She simply stated that to kill the snake you had to kill the family as well, so in order to make a change you had to eliminate the whole family and she stated this without any compassion or remorse. [/quote]
Well Tum Teav is the most popular folk tale here and describes something similar.
[quote]When Teav's mother learns of her daughter's marriage, she feigns illness as a ruse to lure Teav back to her village, whereupon she once again tries to coerce her into marrying Archon's son. Teav sends word to Tum of the impending wedding, and Tum arrives with an edict from the king to stop the ceremony. Tum gets drunk, announces he is Teav's husband and kisses her in public. Enraged, Archoun commands his guards to kill Tum, who is beaten to death under a Bo tree. Grief-stricken, Teav slits her own throat and collapses on Tum's body. [b]When Rama hears of the murder, he descends upon Archoun's palace, ignores the governor's pleas for mercy, and orders Archoun's entire family—including seven generations worth of relatives—be taken to a field and buried to their necks. An iron plow and harrow are then used to decapitate them all. [/b][/quote]
This is a great description of the camps with fantastic photos:
https://www.blurb.com/books/9121252-living-the-cambodian-nightmare