Fri, 30 May 2008 00:42:16 GMT
northwest zone deadlines for new water projects 24 hour work days, no engineering expereince and no advise from peasansts who were famliar with the ara.
1977 Center ordered damn dug and constructed between Jan. harvest and the May planting season. to irriage 20,000 hectares of land
cooperatives in the area donated thousands of peple with no training. like ants digging earth with crude picks and shovels, carrying back-breakinh loads of dirt and rocks in bamboo baskets balanced on poles across their shoulders. moon and lanterns for work at night. finished but the 1978 rainy season the damn burst. it had been built without a spillway, halfed construction time but ensured that the damn would not hold up hunder heavy rains and sweling rivers during the monsoon season.
pg 80
a three pronged effort on the part of cambodian communists: the scholars like Saloth Sar worked as teachers, writers and journalists kept party affiliation secret and worked to build 'cells' among students, workers and intelligensia in Phnom Phen. Some were part of the legitimate political party operated openly in the Pacheachon (People's Group) which contests the 1955 elections. 3rd group work within the Sinanouk regime itself.
Sihanouk controlled army ad police force.
1978
bat kluon - a disappearing body
criticism/self criticism
if you keep this man there is no profit, if yuo lose him there is no loss.
central open-air builings doubled as a cantenn. under lantern light, justice meted out like a people's court most often about planting, harvest assignments and schedules
criticism/self-criticism sessions.
cooperative leaders did criticizing and accused made the self criticisms
Thu, 29 May 2008 21:42:02 GMT
Link: northwest zone. damn building
modern hstory year 1978
Modern History Sourcebook:
François Ponchaud,
Cambodia: Year Zero, 1978
From: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1978cambodia.html
