S1 Ep12: Interview: Craig Etcheson on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the ECCC and 'Extraordinary Justice'
Between 2006 and 2012, Craig Etcheson worked as an investigator for the prosecution at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the UN-backed tribunal set up to try the surviving leaders ...
20 Sep 202051min
S1 Ep11: Pol Pot in Paris and the Khmer Issarak (Part One): The First Indochina War Begins
In October 1949, a young scholarship student named Saloth Sar arrived in Paris. Back home, armed resistance to the returning French was gathering under the banner of the Khmer Issarak, and across the ...
22 Aug 20202h 5min
S1 Ep10: Cambodia in World War II: Son Ngoc Thanh, Imperial Japan and a Brief Independence
On the night of March 9th, 1945, Japanese forces across Indochina moved against the French administration they had coexisted with for five years. By morning the colonial order was suspended, and Cambo...
11 Jun 20202h 45min
S1 Ep9: The Origins of Communism (Part Two): Marxism-Leninism, and Stalin
In April 1917, the German government put Vladimir Lenin on a train and sent him into the collapsing Russian Empire, calculating that a revolutionary might take Russia out of the war. Within five years...
1 Apr 20202h
S1 Ep8: The Origins of Communism (Part One): Marx, Engels and the Communist Manifesto
'To keep you is no gain, to lose you is no loss.' That was one of the sayings of Angkar, recited by Khmer Rouge cadre to prisoners across Democratic Kampuchea. The ideology underneath it took shape mo...
19 Jan 20201h 22min
S1 Ep7: French Colonial Cambodia: A Murdered Official, Village Life, and the Young Pol Pot
In April 1925, a French resident named Félix Louis Bardez walked into the village of Kraang Laav to collect unpaid taxes. He was beaten to death, along with his militiaman and his interpreter. The tri...
2 Des 20192h 2min
S1 Ep6: The Dawn of French Indochina: The Years of Calamity and Mouhot's Journey to Angkor
In 1860 a French naturalist named Henri Mouhot, in the region collecting beetles and birds, was guided to the ruins at Angkor. He died of fever in Laos the following year, and his journals were publis...
31 Aug 20192h 1min
S1 Ep6: Interview: David Chandler on Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and Whether Cambodia Was a Genocide
If you have read one book about Cambodia, there is a good chance David Chandler wrote it. A History of Cambodia has been the standard introduction for four decades, Brother Number One remains the esse...
30 Jun 201956min
