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They're a mandala effect planted by the vril society to awaken the coming race

Take a look at this video again

now we look at this video again

now lets look at the wiki
where they mention its probably CIA
and there is even a movie about them wowzers

now we talk about the photo as I copy paste truthful info from reddit

The Often Overlooked Disturbing History of "Monatio."


There is a famous photo of a supposed "Khmer Rouge soldier" branding a handgun in Phnom penh in a black uniform trying to force an evacuation.

Unfortunately, the photo is amount one of the most miscaptioned in history.

The man in the photo is simply too clean, not exhausted enough, and if you study, is missing a key scarf and hat in the Khmer Rouge uniform. Khmer Rouge soldiers by the time entering Phnom Penh were exhausted and often sick from Malaria.

So what is the history behind this famous ill captioned photo?

Actually, ironically, it traces its origins not to the Khmer Rouge, but the political elite of the Khmer Republic under lon nol. The man in this now infamous photo is Hem Keth Dara, the leader of "MONATIO" , who in turn was manipulated by Lon Non (Lon Nol's calculating brother.)

According to François Ponchand, the handful of soldiers in the group looked like a poor imitation or parody of the Khmer Rouge, wearing black uniforms with some olive uniforms camo and civilian clothing thrown in, without the characteristic checkered scarf and mao hat.

The group was executed by the Khmer Rouge soon after, personally fitting into the definition of "useful idiots." Without them, disarming of FANK soldiers could not have occurred so rapidly and they did act practically as Traffic cops for the Khmer Rogue.

A key question is who was responsible. As I said before, many believe it was a ploy by Lon Non to somehow salvage the regime, as doomed as it was. In my opinion, a more plausible view is that Sihanouk used his connections to create this group to both ease Khmer Rouge entry in - additionally fool army officers he thought betrayed him into thinking remaining was safe. If this later case is true, and in my view due to Sihanouk's perverse influence, it likely is, it would show true callous regard of Sihanouk, as he would make a now lost film about the group glorifying the KR's slaughter of them.

By all accounts, the capitulation in the city, regardless of the terrible and unsustainable humanitarian situation was one of the worse decisions in Cambodian history, given the KR lacked the real strength for a frontal assault and according to CHhang Song, a plan for a last stand in Sihanoukville never materialized. Yet Monatio made the Khmer Rouge job as easy as slicing butter - and despite the fact they aided their countries destruction, a part of me feels slight pity for the naive youth manipulated.

Sources

https://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/viewtopic.php?t=67311

https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/newsworthy/january-1979-t12310-10.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONATIO

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/55805/the-final-hours-of-the-khmer-republic/

Yes, the forums are largely based on rumor, but Sihanouk's collusions very likely given his suspicious movie that whitewashes his role.

>>714447
and I dont know if thats the photo but sure sounds like it

its probably the third photo from here not the photo included on >>714447
whateevers

and I think we're done with the thread

>>714450
You're not gonna adress my elite theory? >>714442

>>714441
Damn, imagine being manipulated and then just shortly executed, exile sounds better in almost every way

On the evacuation of cities:
>Moreover, the evacuation had indeed been preplanned, and not, as he asserted on another occasion, equally untruthfully, in February 1975, but the previous October. He was more honest at a meeting with Chinese journalists, when he admitted: ‘Until we had smashed all kinds of enemy spy organisations, we did not have enough strength to defend the revolutionary regime.’

>That much at least had a basis in fact. CIA officials, including the Chief Strategy Analyst in Saigon, Frank Snepp, later confirmed that the evacuation of the towns, where the agency had established secret radio terminals and clandestine spy cells, ‘left American espionage networks throughout the country broken and useless’.

<Pol Pot : anatomy of a nightmare / Philip Short—1st ed.

>>714447
???

>>714865
yes OP mixed it up
a similar situation happened with picrel, from the 6 October 1976 massacre
<in Thailand, was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries and bystanders against leftist protesters who had occupied Bangkok's Thammasat University and the adjacent Sanam Luang, on 6 October 1976.

however, in the west this exact photograph was used as an example of SEA communist state atrocity, specifically as cover art for dead kennedys' holiday in cambodia single release

Cambodian truther blog spitting hard facts about monatio. Must read
https://khmersdach.blogspot.com/2021/02/monatio-mouvement-nationale.html

>On April 17, Hem Keth Dara, a confessed former ‘playboy’, whose father had been Minister of Information under Lon Nol, ate breakfast with his French wife and two children. At 7 am, he left and met with around 200 followers, dressed ‘in a parody’ of Khmer Rouge fighters. Within 2 hours, with the ‘real’ Khmer Rouge still outside the city, many soldiers, believing peace was at hand tore off their uniforms and the center of town took on what was described as a ‘carnival atmosphere’.

>Hem Keth Dara is the son of the interior minister under Lon Nol, Hem Keth Sana. The group confiscated weapons from [FANK] soldiers who holed up in the government district and then surrendered. Within the surprising bloodless conquest, Hem Kath Dara and his followers managed to get the government radio station under control. There he performed a four-minute broadcast declaring he was the leader of a nationalist movement called MONATIO, which was responsible for the conquest. He called on the government soldiers to lay down their arms and in his address also informed the Khmer Rouge units standing in front of the city: "I have taken measures to enable our older brothers waiting outside of Phnom Penh to easily enter the city without the innocent being killed or harmed."

>Hem Keth Dara was then disarmed by the Khmer Rouge because the MONATIO movement did not belong to them and he had acted without authorization.

one can also observe that the average MONATIO soldier is always male, mature, squeaky clean and cinematically polished, while (according to eyewitness claims) the real Kampuchea Revolutionary Army consisted of both male and female fighters (KR themselves constantly stressed the fact that they had around equal rates of female soldier participation in the revolutionary army, dedicating newspaper articles and revolutionary songs to female battalions) who were often quite young (around 12-15 years old) and stank horribly because of actually having spent time in the swamps and jungles of kampuchea during the people's war

>>715117
Real Kampuchea Soldier✅

>>715117
>the center of town took on what was described as a ‘carnival atmosphere’.
same as in the liberated areas throughout the country prior to april 17

<picture 5
>Cheng Heng was Head of State of Cambodia from 1970 to 1972, and was a relatively prominent political figure during the Khmer Republic period (1970–1975).
>Immediately subsequent to the Cambodian coup of 1970, in which the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, engineered Sihanouk's removal, Heng was made Head of State until elections could be arranged. This was a largely ceremonial role, as Lon Nol had assumed most of the Head of State's political powers on an emergency basis: Sihanouk, from exile, was to dismiss Heng as an "insignificant puppet".
>In 1975, with the Khmer Rouge forces surrounding the capital, Heng's name was published on a list of "Seven Traitors" (also including Lon Nol, Sisowath Sirik Matak, In Tam, Long Boret, Sosthene Fernandez and Son Ngoc Thanh) who were threatened with immediate execution under Angkar's grip at the event of a Communist victory. Heng fled the country on April 1 for Paris, where he became associated with the group of exiles centred on Son Sann.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20110413202547/http://aefek.free.fr/iso_album/cheng_heng.pdf

Do you agree?

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Average monatio

>1. This version of the Internationale is probably translated into Khmer language by Pol Pot.
>2. The proper name of this song in Khmer language is "Sangkum Aneakut" សង្គមអនាគត which means "the Society of the Future"
<Source: Henri Locard. "Pol Pot's Little Red Book: the Sayings of Angkar". Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004.

ក្រោកលើង អស់អ្នកខ្ញុំគេទាំងប៉ុន្មាន
ក្រោកឡើង អស់អ្នក់តោកយ៉ាករាល់ប្រាណ
ក្តៅណាស់ចុកណែនស្ទើរប្រេះដើមទ្រួងធ្លាយ
គ្រាម្តងនេះស្លាប់រស់មិនស្តាយ!
របប់ចាស់ យើងបំផ្លាញឨ្យអស់ធាប់
អស់អ្នកខ្ញុំគេ ក្រោកឈរឡើងទៅ
ថ្ងៃស្អែករបបថ្មីផងយើងបានវិញ
ប្រយោជន៍ប៉ុន្មានធ្លាក់បានដៃយើង

តស៊ូនេះគ្រាចុងបំផុត
រួមគ្នាមកដល់ថ្ងៃមុខ
L'Internationale
គឺជាសង្គមអនាគត

Stand up all the slaves!
Stand up the wretched of the earth!
We suffer cruelly, we stifle, our chest is about to burst!
From today, life or death, no matter!
Let us at once make a clean sweap of the past.
Crowds of slaves, stand up!
Tomorrow, our new regime will be restored:
We shall be matters of all the fruits of our labor!

Now this is the final struggle:
Let us all band together and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the society of the future

>Note: the Khmer version is derived from first verse of the original French lyrics.

>they expelled the staff and opened the doors so that the patients, many of whom were suffering from mental illness, could escape.
only socialist state to abolish psychiatry?

>>717270
same source
>See WAGNER, supra note 25, at 14, 96 (“After the Khmer Rouge regime there were only forty doctors left in the country. Nearly all the older doctors had died, so we had no specialists or experts. There wasn’t a single psychiatrist in Cambodia. Only eighteen out of the fifty medical students in my class survived, and I was the only woman.”); Coping with the Psychological Trauma of the Khmer Rouge (Documentation Ctr. of Cambodia), May 29, 2007, at 4 (“In the early 1970s, Cambodia had an estimated 450 qualified doctors; only 43 of them survived the Khmer Rouge regime. Most of the educated people in the country had either died during the regime or fled the country in its
aftermath.”).

second printed money of democratic kampuchea, this one is for the controlled areas during KR insurgency period
>ND (1993-1999) "Khmer Rouge" Color Copies Issue
>In March 1993, the Khmer Rouge outlawed the use of the National Bank of Cambodia’s banknotes in areas under its control. To replace the official riel notes, the Khmer Rouge printed its own notes in Anlong Veng and asserted the value of its silver riel to be equal to that of the Thai baht.
>These notes circulated in Anlong Veng and Pailin until August 1993, at which time the Khmer Rouge ordered the currency burned to prevent its seizure by Cambodian government troops. The text on these notes is in Khmer, and consists of the name of the country (Kampuchea = Cambodia), the name of the signatory (Khieu Samphan), the name of the currency (prak riel = silver riel), and the denomination.
>Due to the high value of these notes and their non-existant security features, many counterfeits exist.
<http://www.banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/ASI/CMB/CMB.htm#REGIONAL
<https://www.greysheet.com/prices/sp/cambodia-khmer-rouge/10509

Hem Ket Sana was a high official of the government and also the President of the Natioanl Administration school. He created the "Movement National" by getting the direct direction from HM Norodom Sihanouk.
The goal of the "Movement National" is to convince all intellectuals and officials of the goverment not to flee the country. The "Monatio" convinced everyboby that everything will be Okay when the khmer rouge take over because Monatio has connection with Sihanouk. People believed Monatio and did not flee the country. That was the work of HM Sihanouk with the cooperation of the Khmer Rouge. Objective was to keep all intellectuals in the country and kill them.

That is the true story. Monatio was not a work of some reckless youngs. It was a well calculated maneuver prepared by the Khmer Rouge with the cooperation of HM Sihanouk.
Hem Ket Sana was just a tool used by them.
Everybody did not fight back and let the Khmer Rouge took over P. Penh because of "Monatio". It was not a short live movement as stated. It lasted over year period before the collapse of PPenh. It was psychological warfare created by Sihanouk/Khmer Rouge.

>>719398
source please, i would like to know more

>>719414
Hem Keth Sana is waving his pistol in an attempt to stop the looters ransacking those Chinese shops. Those idiotic Western writers, like Ben Keirnan, etc, after switching sides from the KR defender to the defender of another faction of the KR/hun sen clan, stated the pistol-waving guy was a KR soldier threatening people to leave the th4e city. Sana was a lone non's scam sent out to assist his sender, hoping he would get something out of the deal, as Pot and Samphorn were ex-classmates. What non had from the Kr was his head off his shoulder. His head was seen on a fence of the Phare Thmey market soon after his surrender.

>>719497
>Those idiotic Western writers, like Ben Keirnan, etc, after switching sides from the KR defender to the defender of another faction of the KR/hun sen clan, stated the pistol-waving guy was a KR soldier threatening people to leave the th4e city.
still quite hilarious to me how ben kiernan went from KR defender to possibly the most vitriolic anti-KR academic, most of his papers seemed too ideologically poisoned to me. white guilt grindset classic

please could you give me the sources for more of this information? eyewitness accounts, books, papers, websites?
>What non had from the Kr was his head off his shoulder. His head was seen on a fence of the Phare Thmey market soon after his surrender.
interesting detail about the decapitation, also do you think that lon non's girlfriend abuse accusations are true and that same woman used to date pol pot before, when he was known as saloth sar?

Interesting history thread bump

Post it on /leftypol/ please.

>>719953
last time i checked, anything related to the khmer rouge got moved to /siberia/, idk how it's now though
if it's possible can mods move this thread to /leftypol/ please

>>720504
thank you anon very cool but what do introduced species becoming invasive and harming the local ecosystem has to do with monatio or the communist party of kampuchea
<inb4 lon nol's pro-american government is an introduced species (directly US-backed coup which the soviet union officially recognized as "legitimate will of the people" and prioritized lon nol diplomacy over sihanouk, let alone the communist movement)