The History of The Unluckiest Country In The World | Cambodia

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Cambodia is a beautiful country, replete with an incredibly wondrous system of canals. But its history has been marked by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, which brought the nation to its knees. Although it has risen from the ashes of genocide, it is still facing a major crisis today.

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[CaptivatingHistory]

1:16 - Says Southwest Asia. This should be Southeast Asia.

[maximusable]

Work with a man who had to watch Pol pots people kill his sister and mother. He basically said it was a line to get killed. His mother was a doctor I believe and his sister was a teacher. Luckily granted asylum in the US. One of the best guys I know.

[thefadingmoonlight]

My neighbor fled the country during the war. All but 2 of her 11 children died (some from starvation). She lived with her son, daughter in law, and two grandchildren (who were my age). She didn't speak much English, so my friend explained what happened. It was horrific.

[juglanscinerea]

7:19 shows stock footage of Japan with Irish background music while the narrator discusses Vietnamese domination of Cambodia 😆

[heppifactory]

Please don’t call our country unlucky…we are lucky we had the people who survived and are rebuilding the community today! They persevered through war to live and extend our culture!

[airtexaco]

This was an excellent video, thank you.

[leebeeniu]

My friend Zakaria fled to Malaysia by walking. After the war finish he went back to Cambodia and died there...

[KhmerKandal]

Beautiful and informative video. Thank You

[RichieDudeKH]

As a Cambodian. I felt bad for people during 1975 to 1979

[chuckbass]

Until today, most Cambodians still don’t know that it was King Sihanouk who brought Pol Pot to power!

[sojeanify]

Thanks for sharing the amazing story of these ancient, resilient, brilliant people since ancient times, great influencers on its neighbors. Also go see all the ancient Cambodian temples in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

[luongo]

I talked to a fellow Vietnamese freedom fighter who used to own a Viet restaurant. One day, one of his employee, a Khmer guy violently threw dozens of expensive dishes on the ground and started yelling.

The Viet owner was rightly so, mad as Hell. But when asked why he did that, the Khmer guy broke down, started crying and told him how he had flashbacks of seeing his ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD by the Khmer Rouge.

The Viet owner felt sorry for his poor Khmer employee and kept him instead of firing him. So much sorrow and pain in our world...

[camelotenglishtuition]

Been over to Cambodia twice, personally I think the Khmer people are some of the nicest people on Earth.

[chowfun]

I would give the title of unluckiest country in the world to Haiti

[soggyfries]

Can't get any worse. Only way is up, bro!

[floorsixteen.]

Im Khmer and my ancestry test says I have some South Indian ancestry. Many Cambodians do.

[stargazeronesixseven]

🙏 Great Cambodia Ancient Civilizations before the cancers of communism & extremism regimes destroyed the Cambodian societies ... Many lessons to be learn to avoid such miseries in the future for all of us ... 🙏

[geaangellycdelacerna]

a non bias history of philippines next, please

[bloxfortress]

We've been through much we need some more respect.

[svetlanadelight]

Thank you, for the video. Very interesting