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Pol Pot was not a madman; he did not have Hitleresque personal qualities. Community Texts. Community Collections. Better World Books. Uploaded by Tracey. Gutierres on August 24, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. First you're getting all jazzed up about maybe plowing some furrow, then you have to sit around with the King's poop on your head symbolically , and then you get toyed with by concubines.

Sep 19, Czarny Pies rated it it was amazing Shelves: asian-history. Philip Short's Pol Pot is an outstanding biography of one of the greatest monsters of the twentieth century as well as a first rate political history of Cambodia from to the year Pol Pot finally died.

Having already written a biography of Mao Tse Tung, Short began this project with a solid background in the politics of South-East Asia and the methods of communist insurgents operating in the area.

After failing to gain admission to secondary school lycee Pol Pot moved to Paris where from to he studied radio electronics without managing to complete his diploma. During this time he also joined the Vietnamese Communist Party.

In , he returned to Cambodia where he found his vocation that of being an insurgent leader. Although nominally under the control of the Vietnamese Communist Party he renamed his Cambodian section the Communist Party of Kampuchea in The following year again without the approval of the Vietnamese.

Communist party he launched a revolution in Cambodia that culminated in his Khmer Rouge forces taking control of Cambodia or Kampuchea in He would then launch a reign of terror in Kampuchea during which 1. The Vietnamese were horrified by the actions of Pol Pot. They invaded Cambodia in and by had succeeded in taking control of Cambodia. Pol Pot fled to Thailand where he lived in hiding for six years before returning to Cambodia where he lived for another 13 years in a remote jungle enclave that the controlled.

Pol Pot was a man remarkable for his ability to survive prolonged periods of clandestinity and to lead jungle insurgencies. A soon as he acquired the reins of power he launched onto a campaign of murder of extraordinary proportions.

Philip Short's book presents a remarkably informing biography of this horrifying player on the stage of the world history that I recommend highly. I bought a hardcover copy of this book at a bargain bookstore in my home city of Quezon in the Philippines for just the equivalent of just 4 dollars. This is a sad book, as it narrates the inhumanity of the Khmer Rouge, probably the most inhumane of the communists in history.

I hope they are all burning in hell. Aug 08, Gene Smith added it. Philip short takes several books sorts them out, gathers pictures. Philip makes his own theory about culture. I see many men and women challange him in colleges.

Although Philip Short has the right idea's because how could he not, he read the books of David Chandler. Mr Short makes false claims.

No one can back up his storys. Philip Short picks a time in history that is hard to chalange. Don't Take philips words to the bank.

Where are the recored interviews of his claims? I never heard of such crap. If I was building a army of men to fight for me as Pol Pot was doing. How could this be possible. Philip Short to me is a fake. To put together a book on other books he read and come up with his own conclusions.

He stumbled on history that has be covered up by its country. Very difficult to find out facts. I have yet to see any proof that Philip Short interviewed anyone. Philip has collected pictures tells the story, and includes his own idea's which could be made up.

Not facts of people's interview. I thank C-Span for the insight of his interview. Reason's that soon will be reveal of the true life of Philip Short. He happened to have a little knowledege from reading books of David Chandler, and other respectable people. Philip did gain pictures and interviews. All giving to him by women. Philip Short actully was in cambona after his retirement to take advatage of poor asian women. While on his adventures he collects the thought of women and their Memorabilia.

He still doing this Today as of April 9, Philip is good in english, and expresses himself well. He earn a good living most of his carrer as a BBC. Philip is a excellect speaker, and can speak his way out of anything. Philip has a weakness. It is the attraction to asian women. He looks like a respectable person, but in fact he is not. Philip's Video's on the internet gives him the exposure of a rich man. When in fact he is not.

Philip is now using this as a way to lurer women. What does raise an eyebrow, even amongst those working in the industry, is the marked lack of parity in salaries.

What Women see in internet makes you think he is rich. Free public speeches. Free College Speakings. Those free speaches are to promote his book, which most people are not even interested in. Philip had to fund some of the books cost, as has not recoved the expenses of the books yet. I am big on the internet too, but I dont boost about it.

The fact that Philip Short gives free lextures on C-Span and in colleges give great exposer. C-Span has a great host on the web, which means Anything pertaining to C-Span or other Broadcasters has high rank in searches on the internet.

Its still dosen't make him rich. A women who traded Her loved one for this Philip would a huge mistake. Philip has no more money than a ordinary man. Women are so fooled by men like is his demeanor. In one interview Philip Short says: Mr. It was rewarding because he used her to translate a language, SO he could write a book.

Once he published the book he abandon his wife and son. He became a journalist and worked for the BBC for 25 years as a foreign correspondent, contemplating the lunacies of politics in many different cultures from Sihanouk to Brezhnev and Clinton to Deng Xiaoping.

In he finished his final stint as BBC Washington correspondent and spent a year teaching journalism at the University of Iowa. He lives in Provence with his wife and son. I guess he intenteds to write a book in philippines, and needs her to translate so he can conduct interviews.

Mr Short will get her pregnate and after he publish his book Ethel will be the 5 wife he took advatage of. Mr Short Funded Ethel money for sex in webcam. The funds were made through Western Union which Mr. Short cannot denie, Transaction. Mr Short also has archives that can be furnished of his Chat to Ethel in her webcam. He saw her for 3 weeks and HE went out of his mind. He flew to philippines and took advatage of her for 2 months.

Taking her to hotels visiting all the island. I have the interary of their trip. Search Googel Ethel Daguyo and see what he saw in webcam. Than you will see what kind of man is Philip Short. Dont buy his books and help him fund these terrible acts agaist women.

View all 9 comments. An admirably solid book about one of the most bewildering stories of the twentieth century. I was never a fan of Lewis Carroll as a kid; "Alice in Wonderland" always scared me.

This books inspired the same fear in me. I don't think I've ever been through a looking glass and found myself in a place as brutish and, well - insane as the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. Short is a good writer; his former career as a BBC journalist is apparent, in his unadorned prose, mistrust of simple narratives, An admirably solid book about one of the most bewildering stories of the twentieth century. Short is a good writer; his former career as a BBC journalist is apparent, in his unadorned prose, mistrust of simple narratives, and command of facts and characters.

And most crucially, he largely does not attempt to produce a grand explanation for the eminently bizarre ideology and policies of Pol Pot; he doesn't really know, we don't either, and Pol Pot, nee Saloth Sar, never really knew, anyway. What kind of a regime abolishes whole concepts, like "money" or "cities" or even "names"?

Orwell shows his age to me now read "Shooting an Elephant" for his truly malevolent racist colonizer's self-pity but the Khmer Rouge seem to have distilled the most vicious drippings of Beyond Short's superb research, as well as his excellent narrative structure, he provides ample historical context for the tragedy of Indeed, the canny, ruthless, histrionic King Sihanouk almost steals the book, like some good character actor in a bit movie part.

Like J. Walsh, he's an intriguing heavy with a weird charm. If the book has a message, I think it's one that is going to be difficult for most people to digest: we don't really know why we do what we do, and our capacity for remorseless evil is greater than we would like to imagine - more influenced by circumstance than we'd care to admit.

The Khmer Rouge are the most inept Marxists in human history, barely able to understand basic concepts like class consciousness, or even what the proletariat is. It was not these precepts that swept them to power, nor even served as the engine behind the Tuol Sleng torture center.

The fact is, the Khmer Rouge was a bizarre nightmare, but one brought to fruition by many makers. The horrifying U. The U. The next time someone tells you about Reagan the Democratic Hero TM , make sure they know: under his watch, we kept the fat and happy mass murderers of millions well-armed through Thai interlocutors. All because we and the Khmer Rouge shared one longtime enemy: Vietnam.

Short often essentializes the Khmer as violent, a disturbing theme throughout the book. It's not a convincing argument, anymore than it would be to call Germans or Palestinians irredeemably, culturally-ingrained killers.

He tempers this argument in the closing pages of the book, and at least offers one compelling idea in support of a uniquely Cambodian quality behind the killing fields: it cannot have been easy to see the ruins of the Angkor Wat, center of an entire that controlled Southeast Asia, and now you were a small fish, prey to the whims of China, Vietnam, Thailand, and now, the U. As for Pol Pot himself? Never has the "banality of evil" been more apparent. He barely figures even in his own life story.

A chilling coda - no witnesses can attest to ever seeing him lose his temper. Just smiling a trademark, toothy smile, no matter the subject. In the book's introduction, Short shows that Cambodia's killings is not only comparable to Rwanda's or Germany's, but maybe even worse, in a way, as the killings were directed at the, ethnically, same people who perpetrated the killings.

The fact that, technically, therefore, the killings were not a genocide also makes them different from comparable atrocities in recent history. Pop Pot and his minions were out to enslave a population, not kill it.

The dying thousands estimates go up to 2 million were like an inconvenient side effect. Short puts a lot of actors on the stage, practically all with names I had to struggle with. That, combined with the lesser well known historical backdrop of South East Asia, makes the story a bit hard to follow at times. That said, Short has put down a strikingly immersive and surprisingly human portrait of yet another man who became a monster, even though Pol Pot is more accurately 'only' a major player in the book, not necessarily the central subject.

One thing I found surprising was that Pol Pot, in his early years, wasn't of the revolutionary type at all, but only slowly drifted to more radical actions and views. The author makes a point of non-Marxist style of the Cambodian 'communist' movement.

For Marx, it was the industrial proletariat who represented progress, development, which was required for the revolution; their class inequality, their economically bad position, being the ultimate driver for a workers' revolution. In Cambodia, with the absence of a working class, the substitute became the only available badly educated group of people, with little access to modern amenities, the peasantry. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

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