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Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the context of total revolution.

Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the context of total revolution. This might be one of the explanations why repression assumed proportions unknown in other Communist countries. The mask of Angkar was a good tactic to grab power, but it proved disastrous in government.

Pol Pot
Country, Government, Hatred

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

Pol Pot
Voice, America, Firsts
"Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

Pol Pot
Hungry, Ifs

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

Pol Pot
Mistake, Responsibility, Enemy
Source: natethayer.typepad.com

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

Pol Pot
Struggle, Satisfied, Cambodia
Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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