Introduction to Pailin Pailin is a backwater border town between Cambodia and Thailand that is very much off of the Cambodia tourist trail. There are though enough things to make a trip to Pailin worth your while, and of course, it played an integral part of contemporary Cambodian/Khmer Rouge history. History of Pailin Pailin is […]

Understand Cambodia is one of the jewels of travel to South East Asia and definitely a firm favourite of YPT. Cambodia might be considered very much on the beaten track, after all Angkor Wat alone gets close to 3 million visitors per year. But Cambodia has much more to offer to the intrepid traveler, such […]

If you are to believe everything guides such as Wikitravel, or the Lonely Planet say, then you’d think that Anlong Veng was nothing, but a haunt for weirdos and without a redeeming feature. In fact, Along Veng and its surrounding areas are not only beautiful but extremely important when it comes to the contemporary history […]

Our final article in this series will deal with the last days of the Khmer Rouge. What’s more, this article is going live on the 17th of April, the anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s seizing of power! Feel free to take a moment of silence for the victims or celebrate in a barren field of […]

When it comes to the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide, the name most people know is Pol Pot. The actuality was that a regime and insurgency so repressive and obsessive needed a number of moving cogs. Ta Mok was an essential cog in the Killing Fields and its aftermath. Biography of Ta Mok Ta […]

When you read about the Khmer Rouge, you will often be told about Pol Pot being “Brother Number 1” and various other figures such as Ta Mok (Brother Number 4) being referred to by their brother honorific, but what does it all mean? Angkar The Communist Party of Kampuchea, or as they are more commonly […]

Cambodia has been heavily shaped by its past, particularly the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge which lasted between 1975 and 1979 under what was known as Democratic Kampuchea. What many people do not realize is that the Khmer Rouge dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK; Khmer: រដ្ឋាភិបាលចំរុះកម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, Odthaphibeal Chamrouh Kampouchea Brachathibtey), renamed to […]