Khmer Rouge Atrocities Re-Enacted at Cambodian Killing Field
A young black-clad man stood holding a replica AK-47 assault rifle at the Choeung Ek Genoci­dal Cen­ter yesterday morning, awk­wardly agreeing to the requests of a growing audience to take selfies with him.

Ten minutes later, he had traded his reluctant smile for a vicious snarl as he took up his role as a Khmer Rouge cadre, leading three shrieking young girls away and ordering them to kneel before pretending to club them to death with a hoe.



Another group of youngsters was then dragged away after being caught picking bananas, while a recording of piercing cries blasted through crackling speakers.

The theatrics marked the “Day of Anger,” a government-organized event first staged in 1984 as a way of venting the trauma inflicted on much of the population by the brutality of the Pol Pot-led communists. More controversially, it also serves as a commemoration of the liberation of the country in 1979 by Vietnamese-backed defectors who still form the nucleus of the current government. As always, hundreds poured into the grounds of the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, better known as the Killing Fields, to watch the dramatization of Cam­bodia’s darkest period.

“My mother told me about the Khmer Rouge. They even killed ba­bies by hitting them against trees and adults were killed by slitting their throats,” said Keo Sreyhong, a 17-year-old from Phnom Penh.

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CEOCambodiaNews wrote:Khmer Rouge Atrocities Re-Enacted at Cambodian Killing Field
A young black-clad man stood holding a replica AK-47 assault rifle at the Choeung Ek Genoci­dal Cen­ter yesterday morning, awk­wardly agreeing to the requests of a growing audience to take selfies with him.

Ten minutes later, he had traded his reluctant smile for a vicious snarl as he took up his role as a Khmer Rouge cadre, leading three shrieking young girls away and ordering them to kneel before pretending to club them to death with a hoe.



Another group of youngsters was then dragged away after being caught picking bananas, while a recording of piercing cries blasted through crackling speakers.

The theatrics marked the “Day of Anger,” a government-organized event first staged in 1984 as a way of venting the trauma inflicted on much of the population by the brutality of the Pol Pot-led communists. More controversially, it also serves as a commemoration of the liberation of the country in 1979 by Vietnamese-backed defectors who still form the nucleus of the current government. As always, hundreds poured into the grounds of the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, better known as the Killing Fields, to watch the dramatization of Cam­bodia’s darkest period.

“My mother told me about the Khmer Rouge. They even killed ba­bies by hitting them against trees and adults were killed by slitting their throats,” said Keo Sreyhong, a 17-year-old from Phnom Penh.

Continue reading: https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thea ... ow-112879/

If they were to stage a re-enactment of public hangings from the 19th century in one of the western countries, how many of you here would go?

Agreed, poor taste.

franzjaeger wrote:Agreed, poor taste.

In some ways it could be argued that the government ( many of whom are ex? KR) is flexing it's muscles in the most inappropriate way.

phuketrichard wrote:its like their saying,
watch it ( upcoming election)
or this could happen again
sick fucks

They also play the Khmer Rouge songs coming up to every election for the same reason. A lot of them sound quite jolly, so you wouldn't guess unless you knew them.

This one's quite catchy

I just wanna see some shots of the tourists watching it, probably wide eyes, open mouths, crying their hearts out and all that, before flying back home, to tell all their friends about how they 'survived Cambodia'.

franzjaeger wrote:I just wanna see some shots of the tourists watching it, probably wide eyes, open mouths, crying their hearts out and all that, before flying back home, to tell all their friends about how they 'survived Cambodia'.

And wearing their t shirt

juansweetpotato wrote:
If they were to stage a re-enactment of public hangings from the 19th century in one of the western countries, how many of you here would go?

However, many "historic movies" have a propaganda message attached . Not so different ?