Funeral for the wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2015
- (3 Jul 2003)
1. Close up portrait photograph of Khieu Ponnary on her coffin
2. Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge leader, entering room
3. Khieu Thirith, Khieu Ponnary's sister and former Minister of Social Affairs in Khmer Rouge regime leaving car
4. Khieu Thirith walking away with husband Ieng Sary, former Foreign Minister in the Khmer Rouge regime
5. Sary greets Samphan
6. Various shots of Sary and Samphan
7. Wide shot room with mourners
8. Thirith crying
9. Policemen carrying wreaths
10. Mourners carrying coffins
11. Soldiers in procession carrying photograph of Ponnary and wreaths
12. Truck carrying coffin
13. Wide shot funeral procession
14. Close up Nuon Chea, chief idealogue of Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's right hand man
15. Samphan walking towards seating
16. Various Samphan and Chea
17. Sary walking with his head covered
18. Wide shot funeral procession walking round the grounds of the temple
19. Mid shot coffin
20. Sary and Thirith
23. Wide shot mourners and coffin
24. Mid shot Chea
25. Mid shot Samphan
26. Sary placing incense stick by coffin
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge President:
"I think it was time for her because as you know she has been ill for a very long time."
28. Various mourners lighting funeral pyre
STORYLINE:
The once-powerful wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was cremated on Thursday amid chanting Buddhist monks and religious rituals that the ultra-communist revolutionaries had tried to eradicate during their reign of terror.
Khieu Ponnary, the first wife of Pol Pot, died on Tuesday at age 83 in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin in northwestern Cambodia.
The cremation, attended by more than 500 monks, mourners and schoolchildren, took place at a Buddhist temple where her coffin was carried in a procession led by police.
Among those who attended were her brother-in-law, Ieng Sary, who served as the Khmer Rouge's foreign minister during the radical communist group's 1975-79 rule.
Sary, who is in his 70s, is accused of many crimes against humanity but lives freely under a government amnesty, as do other former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Also in attendance were Khieu Samphan, once nominal head of the group, and Pol Pot's former deputy, Nuon Chea.
Khieu Samphan said he had not seen Khieu Ponnary for more than 20 years.
Like many top Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Ponnary studied in France in the early 1950s.
She married Pol Pot in 1956 and wielded considerable power as a member of the Khmer Rouge's inner clique, but she struggled with mental illness for more than two decades, and more recently suffered from cancer.
According to most accounts, she was already showing signs of mental illness when Cambodia's civil war began in 1970.
She was taken to China for psychiatric treatment but her condition reportedly failed to improve.
The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 with the dream of creating an agrarian utopia, and by the time it was toppled by a Vietnamese invasion four years later, an estimated 1.7 (m) million Cambodians had perished of disease, hunger and executions.
The regime emptied cities, set up slave labour camps in the countryside and slaughtered teachers, civil servants, Buddhist clergy and other members of the former establishment.
Pol Pot, who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge comrades, separated from Khieu Ponnary in the 1980s and took a second, younger wife, with whom he had a daughter.
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Why give Her a funeral ?? She was in on the Killing of all those Pepole
just because she killed people doesn't mean she is a criminal
Buddhist traditions say that every being deserves a good funeral even if they were bad
@@hamzatgelagaev9758 bro what
Why are they wearing glasses though💀
wow anyone got family so father black heart mother maybe not so that was there r free and choice I hope and wish they became a real great people thanks satuk satuk satuk
How can someone understands this?
เมีย พอลพต เป็นคนยังไง ดี หรือไม่ดี ครับ รู้แต่ว่า พอลพต มันชั่วช้ามาก
because I knew pot pot said event a kid could kill mother or father too if they did not listen
WTF a murderer get an honored funeral .
They were a bunch of hypocrites.
I hope and wish for her next life no more meet real black heart pot pot again
..seems like theres nothing happened before..the messacre..so easy of being forgotten..
and sometimes if a real black heart pot pot want to did that I believe who could not anything if big mouth maybe who got kill too
woman could not kill anyone I was woman I knew
This is pretty fucking sad, a murderer get an honored funeral. I lived and survived the genocide her family put us through... this is bs..many died invane
Total3D this is why the country the way it is..smh
Mad people in this world 😢😢😢
I wondered how Pol pot children and his grandchildren life's now
Probably a living hell. They likely had nothing to with his crimes and fair or not likely have to live with the blame for the sins the parents/grandparents did. It's been known to happen with children and grandchildren of Nazis, even if said children/grandchildren denounced and renounced their parents/grandparents, descendants of brutal dictators, former royalty, even relatively minor criminals and serial killers. They'll never live a normal life, some even going so far as to change their name to the maternal or paternal side not responsible, abandon family ties entirely, change name totally, even face and national identity like SSN, SIN, NHS number etc., leave province, state even the country in some cases, buy weapons to protect against those who might want to go after the sons and/or daughters or grandsons/granddaughters since the parents and/or grandparents responsible are dead. Especially in cultures that hold one's family, tribe or clan responsible for the sins of its members if the responsible member is dead or otherwise out of reach.
What happen to Lewandowski now after his grandfather Adolf Hitler was defeated by Allied Forces and USSR and then commit suicide in 1945? He is successful football player 😎
Rotten eggs are all in the basket...
RIP
@@lxxl8795 💯
Yazha Johnson RIH
Evil 🤬
This is utterly sick..people are celebrating and honor a killer.. sorry Khmer people not only you disgrace your own ,but you also dishonored the dead. This is one of the reason I separated myself from try rest when I got to the state. What happened to me over 30 plus years ago still fresh in my mind.
The khmer people of today are the most disgusting people on the planet. Those monks know better than than to accept the invitation for a funeral , but I guess it wouldn't be monk like
I’m a Khmer and I really hate him also my family hates him because they lived during the genocide
@@conquerortheonioneater489 .. two years ago I went back and visit the country for the first time. I was born during those years, living through starvation. Hun Sen is part of the Khmer Rouge regime and he is running the country for last 5 decades, and sadly the country is in the same stage .. Pol pot the modern day. The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich.. I feel bad for those people that never made it out..
@@derrickkhut9516 yeah but I can’t say anything to him or else I might be in trouble or something
@@derrickkhut9516 well Buddhist traditions respect the dead whether evil or good