Vong Sokheng
Photo Courtesy of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia
People participate in an arts performance during the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea, sometime between 1975 and 1979. The performance was likely for a visiting foreign delegation.
Lyrics from the past
LYRICS: We the Youth are Committed to Following Revolutionary Kampuchea
Forever
After one thousand years, the mighty Kampuchea has now liberated the people held in darkness… men and women have been liberated completely.
Because the revolutionary Kampuchean Angkar is robust, it has led us to persevere together to fight against the evil capitalist regime.
To indoctrinate the ideology of great revolution, the political consciousness of Angkar’s strategy, with sturdy hands in every respect.
Revolutionary Angkar understands and knows clearly the friend and enemy, knows good and bad, knows wrong and right. Revolution reveals the great prosperous road.
Furthermore, Angkar has torched the blazing hot fire in which to battle, to fight the capitalists until it collapses. Its servants big and small are to be destroyed completely.
The successful fallen years continued by Angkar, to indoctrinate and solidify, the revolution is prepared to fight. SOURCE: DC-CAM
Forever
After one thousand years, the mighty Kampuchea has now liberated the people held in darkness… men and women have been liberated completely.
Because the revolutionary Kampuchean Angkar is robust, it has led us to persevere together to fight against the evil capitalist regime.
To indoctrinate the ideology of great revolution, the political consciousness of Angkar’s strategy, with sturdy hands in every respect.
Revolutionary Angkar understands and knows clearly the friend and enemy, knows good and bad, knows wrong and right. Revolution reveals the great prosperous road.
Furthermore, Angkar has torched the blazing hot fire in which to battle, to fight the capitalists until it collapses. Its servants big and small are to be destroyed completely.
The successful fallen years continued by Angkar, to indoctrinate and solidify, the revolution is prepared to fight. SOURCE: DC-CAM
Sat in a coffee shop on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, by the fence of the Supreme Court, 53-year-old Chan Dara played several forgotten songs composed during the Khmer Rouge era to a dozen assembled friends.
As music echoed through the cafe, the supporter of King Father Norodom Sihanouk and collector of Khmer Rouge songs spoke passionately about the tunes he first listened to as a teenager after the downfall of the Lon Nol Era.
Just a few days after the Khmer Rouge soldiers took over Phnom Penh in April 17, 1975, Dara heard the music of the regime played through loudspeakers. The songs, at first, helped him to understand Communist ideology and installed in him a commitment to work hard and belief that the corruption of the past government was over.
“My first impression of many of the forgotten songs composed during the Khmer Rouge period was that were good lessons on learning good governance and on how to be a good person and leader – but I realised those thoughts were completely wrong when leaders of the Khmer Rouge started killing,” said Dara.
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Whoever put this picture up, really make me sic....!
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