Page 149 - Communism in Ambush

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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The Khmer Rouge called their party Angkar, and to the millions of
people working themselves to exhaustion in the fields gave the impres-
sion that "Angkar is always watching you." A Cambodian who managed
to escape the Khmer Rouge brutality describes those who lived in the so-
called "democratic" Cambodia:
In Democratic Kampuchea, there were no prisons, no courts, no universi-
ties, no schools, no money, no jobs, no books, no sports and no pastimes . .
. There was no spare moment in the twenty-four-hour day. Daily life was
divided up as follows: twelve hours for physical labor, two hours for eat-
ing, three hours for rest and education, and seven hours for sleep. We all
lived in an enormous concentration camp. There was no justice. The
Angkar regulated every moment of our lives . . . The Khmer Rouge often
used parables to justify their contradictory actions. They would compare
people to cattle: "Watch this ox as it pulls the plow. It eats when it is or-
dered to eat. If you let it graze in the field it will eat anything. If you put it
into another field where there isn't enough grass, it will still graze uncom-
plainingly. It is not free, and it is constantly being watched. And when you
tell it to pull the plow, it pulls. It never thinks about its wife or children…"
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Obviously, the Khmer Rouge put into effect the "human bestializa-
tion" project that lay at the base of Communism. As the above quote
shows, people were forced to be like oxen plowing a field. At the same
time, much importance was given to eradicating such concepts as reli-
gion and morality. The Black Book of Communism describes the meas-
ures the Khmer Rouge took to destroy the love between the family
institution and its members:
The regime did all it could to break family ties, which it saw as a threat to
the totalitarian project of making each individual totally dependent on the
Angkar. Work teams had their own houses, which were often simply bar-
racks or collections of hammocks or mats for sleeping located near the vil-
lage. It was very difficult to get permission to leave these compounds, and
husbands and wives were often separated for weeks or longer. Children
were kept from their extended families, and adolescents sometimes went
six months without seeing their parents. Mothers were encouraged to
spend as little time as possible with their children. Because the postal serv-
ice had stopped altogether, it was sometimes months before people
learned of the death of a relative. Here again the example came from