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- Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: Pol Pot's holiday snaps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1278
Pol Pot's holiday snaps
During the 1980's, while taking a break from running a guerrilla campaign against Vietnamese forces and the KPRAF, Pol Pot would take trips to China or beach vacations to Thailand. Photos from Nhem En, offical KR photographer and film maker, an interesting source of many photos from the PRK civil wa...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:06 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: RIP Damian Evans- The Man Who Laser Scanned Angkor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6061
RIP Damian Evans- The Man Who Laser Scanned Angkor
This morning’s news of returning Khmer treasures has been severely dampened with another report, this time from France, of the untimely passing of archaeologist Damian Evans, for many years a name that has been synonymous with ground-breaking discoveries in understanding more about the extent of the...
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 3:21 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: Flying the Last Missions in Cambodia
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3431
Flying the Last Missions in Cambodia
By Darrell Whitcomb 50 years after the U.S. ended operations in support of Khmer allies, the last pilot out looks back. It is an historical footnote now, lost in the larger story of the Vietnam War. As our nation wound down its participation in that conflict, the last chapter of that tragedy played ...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: The Wonders Found in Nickolas Coffill’s Photography in Cambodia – 1866 to Present
- Replies: 9
- Views: 716
Re: The Wonders Found in Nickolas Coffill’s Photography in Cambodia – 1866 to Present
Son Ngoc Thanh was a fascinating figure, arguably the most important Cambodian in modern history after Sihanouk and Pol Pot. His narrative does not fit with current teachings, so is mostly ignored inside Cambodia.
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- Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: Sword of Rahu unearthed in Preah Vihear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1352
Sword of Rahu unearthed in Preah Vihear
An unusual relic of the distant past was recently unearthed as a local farmer was tending his rice fields, with what is believed to be a tenth century sword, found in the Reaksa commune of Rovieng in Preah Vihear and handed over to authorities. The intricate carving on the pommel, hilt and top of th...
- Tue May 02, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: Japanese police officer shot dead 30 years ago
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1809
Japanese police officer shot dead 30 years ago
A Japanese police officer who was shot dead 30 years ago while on a UN peacekeeping operation in Cambodia has been remembered in the capital Phnom Penh. Superintendent Takata Haruyuki was killed on May 4, 1993 in an attack by an armed group. He was 33 years old. The UN mission followed decades of ci...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:48 pm
- Forum: Cambodia News
- Topic: Nate Thayer RIP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2445
Re: Nate Thayer RIP
Great story/tribute to Nate Thayer- how he 'found' and helped a hidden FULRO/Montagnard army during UNTAC. "GREENSBORO, N.C. — Late in the summer of 1994, as the hot season was finally breaking in Cambodia, three scraggly men in flip-flops showed up at the Phnom Penh Post’s compound looking for Amer...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 5:29 pm
- Forum: 'Not' Cambodia
- Topic: Rest in Paradise
- Replies: 379
- Views: 74291
Re: Rest in Paradise
Condolences for the loss of an important scholar in Khmer culture-architecture research, Mr. Darryl Leon Collins, co-author of the book "Building Cambodia: New Khmer Architecture 1953-1970" (2006) which has been famous for a long time for national and international researchers as well as many Khmer ...
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
March 24 1972- an old French pickup truck stalled midpoint on the Japanese Friendship Bridge connecting Phnom Penh and the Chruoy Changvar peninsula. 2,000 pounds of explosives blew the truck through the bottom of the bridge crossing the Tonle Sab, twisted the central span’s steel girders and killed...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:07 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
March 23 1907- Franco-Siam Treaty was signed. This ceded the annexed territory of Phra Tabong, known in Khmer as Preah Bat Dambang Kranhoung, back to Cambodia. The territory encompassed much of the north of Cambodia, including Angkor Wat. 1967- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War t...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand Where was it moved from? Luang Prabang? This piece has an interesting history. Quite the history. In 1779, the Siamese General Chao Phraya Chakri invaded Laos, looted Vientiane and took the Emerald...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
March 22 1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand 1955: the Sangkum Reastr Niyum was founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk . Though it described itself as a ‘movement’ rather than a political party (members had to abjure membership of any pol...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:18 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
On March 21, 1804, the Napoleonic Code was adopted in France, stressing clearly written and accessible law. This would largely be adopted in French Indochina, and still strongly influences the modern laws of Cambodia. On March 21, 1970, Pham Van Dong, the North Vietnamese Prime Minister, secretly tr...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:28 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: The Today in History Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4370
Re: The Today in History Thread
March 20, 1954: Viet Minh radio broadcast a “declaration of the Foreign Minister of the Khmer Resistance Government” protesting US aid to the French in Indochina. Signed by one Keomani, the declaration asserted: “The Khmer people … recognize only the Khmer Resistance Government as the Government whi...