The story of Pol Pot (Seeman's distant uncle) from Cambodia

 Whenever we try to explain the intensity of Seeman's stupidity, arrogance and ruthlessness, we compare him with Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany.

But the person about whom I'm going to talk about, will change your perception towards Seeman. In fact, after reading this article, you would stop comparing Seeman with Adolf Hitler and start comparing him with the person I'm gonna talk about here.

Now, mind you, whatever I'm gonna say here would sound like some Madan Gowri Anna's or Tamil Pokkisham Vicky Anna's video script but, these are actual historical events that took place in a small southeast Asian country called Cambodia from 1975-1979.

The person that I was talking about is none other late Pol Pot, former chairman and leader of Khmer Rouge, an armed communist organization which sought to take control over Cambodia via a civil war which took place between 1968-1975.

Here's the link on who is Pol Pot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Here's a link on the Cambodian civil war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War

Some facts here might be wrong but, the objective what I will be trying to say here is clear and evident.

The civil war in Cambodia began with an insurgency of Khmer Rouge in 1968 in Northern and eastern parts of Cambodia with the help of North Vietnamese army(Vietnam war was also going on during that time) and Chinese army.

Eventually, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rogue came to power in certain parts of Cambodia, while the other parts of Cambodia which wasn't under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, was under the control of Cambodian government including the capital of the country, Phnom Penh.

For a moment, there was a sigh of relief for the Cambodian government but, it short lived when America withdrew it's troops from the southeast Asian region.

Due to which, South Vietnamese capital fell into the hands of North Vietnamese army, unifying the two Vietnams into one Vietnam. Just like that, Cambodian capital Phnom Penh which fell into the hands of Khmer Rouge army, eventually leading to Pol Pot become a sole leader to all of Cambodia.

A side note about Pol Pot.

He was staunch communist whose version of communism was a mix of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Seeman might not be a communist but, what I'm gonna say will definitely shock you.

Pol Pot believed in transformation of capitalist Cambodian society into an agrarian socialist society. According to him, the only work for the people living in his utopia would be farming, cattle herding, fighting for the Pol Pot against enemy forces. He wanted to demolish industries and factories since he believed that industries and factories were a capitalist/western thing. He believed that it was the only way towards achieving true communism.

So, what he did to achieve that?

Simple, within three days of invading the capital city of Phnom Penh and rest of southern portion of Cambodia, he forcefully relocated all the people living in urban areas to rural areas or internment camps located in dense forests where they worked on collective farms or herded cattles. These people were forcefully made to march on their feet to their respective allocated internment camps. These people were forced to march at gunpoints without being given water or food or anything rest.

At that time, there were 2 million inhabitants living in the capital Phnom Penh. All of them faced the same fate and people living in other cities of Cambodia faced a similar fate. If 2 millions from Phnom Penh alone were marched, then imagine the number of people from other cities.

Industrial buildings and factories were demolished. Schools, educational institutions, hospitals and religious worship places were also demolished. People living in urban areas were falsely warned that the US Air Force bombers and jets were on their way to bomb their respective cities. On contrary, the last time US Air Force ever bombed Cambodia was two years ago, in 1973 and US had already withdrew it's troops from the region long time ago. Some believed this lie while others didn't. People who didn't believe or refused to move, were forced to do so at gunpoint or were just simply shot dead. The people were made to leave their belongings like cars, telephones, radios, jewelries, money behind since those things were considered capitalists/western imperialist inventions.

Anybody who questioned was made as an good example in front of others to let them know what would happen to them if they questioned the government.

This one incident itself in history is a big literal embodiment of "Vivasayam Paaruda mavane" but, bit more serious with people held at gunpoint.

The government had classified the rural population as a 'base people' and urban people as 'new people'. They did this classification just for mere administration purpose. Base people were often free. The Khmer Rouge troops never minded or supervised them since the base people were considered loyalists while the new people were suspected of secretly doing forbidden things which were considered capitalistic/western imperialistic. That's why, while the base people were left free, new people were subjected to harsh treatment by Khmer Rouge and were under constant supervision in their internment camps. They faces harsh labour and physical abuse from the supervising troops.

Wearing different, colourful and fancy clothes was banned. All were made to wear black shirt and black pajamas as their daily clothing. Nobody would be allowed to wear something else. Usage of western medicine and western technology was also banned. Many people died due to improper treatment available, this was further due to mass killings of educated intellectuals such as teachers and doctors by Khmer Rouge upon fearing that these intellectual people might start questioning the government.

Due to the lack of availability of trained doctors and ban on usage of western medicines, demolishing of Hospitals, many people succumbed to malnutrition and diseases.

If it was found that you are secretly a doctor who was secretly trying to help or treat a fellow internment mate, you would be brought to the killings field, the fields where people are called, where you would be beheaded. These are the same fields where the people who questioned the Khmer Rouge or Pol Pot were also executed in these fields.

Whenever a killing was to take place, the speakers would be turned on with increase in volume where people in the internment camps would listen to pre recorded propaganda speeches by Pol Pot and Propaganda music instead of screams of people being hacked to death in killing fields.

Children were forcefully separated from the families, sent to different regions of Cambodia to be trained as child soldiers for Khmer Rouge. They were fed with propaganda.

If you think this all heart wrenching, then there's more to come.

Khmer is the native ethnic community of Cambodia who spoke Khmer language. They formed 85% the total country's population.

Apart from this Khmer community, there were many other ethnic communities living in Cambodia during that time.

These communities were Chinese, Lao, Vietnamese, Thai, Cham etc.

Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge hated these communities. As you can suggest by the name of the organization itself, how did the Khmer Rouge and its chairman Pol Pot view the ethnic minorities and believed in Khmer supremacy.

There was no place for these minorities in his agrarian socialist society, capitalist free society. He wanted them to be gone.

The irony is, Pol Pot himself was a half a Chinese half Khmer.

After coming to power, Pol Pot either expelled or killed members of these communities. To let you the intensity of his ethnic persecution, the Vietnamese population in 1971 was 200,000. But, in 2011, the population was only 90,000.

In 1975, shortly after Khmer Rouge regime took power, a CIA station at US Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, intercepted a radio transmission in which there was an order to kill an entire village full of a non Khmer ethnic community. Thailand is a neighboring country to Cambodia. That's how the CIA intercepted the radio transmissions.

The links on ethnic persecutions during Pol Pot's period: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/survival-cambodias-ethnic-minorities#:~:text=During%20the%20Pol%20period%20from,million%20people%20were%20starved%20and

https://gsp.yale.edu/node/283

People were banned from speaking any language of other than Khmer.

Speaking in French was also banned. I forgot to mention that Cambodia was a former French colony so, just like how elite in India used to speak English in the when our country was newly born, the elite in Cambodia used to speak French. Pol Pot hated this for obvious reasons.

People who practiced any religion were also subjected to persecution. The Buddhist monks in the country were literally used as bullock carts during Pol Pot's period time.

It wasn't until January of 1979, when Pol Plot's Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown by the unified Vietnamese army, shortly after a war between Vietnam and Cambodia which broke out in December of 1978.

The events which unfolded during the period of 1975-1979, the time when Pol Plot ruled Cambodia is known as Cambodian genocide.

The details about Cambodian genocide here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

There's even a movie on Cambodian genocide called 'First they called my father' directed by Angelina Jolie. It's a movie based on a novel with same title written by Loung Ung. Loung Ung is a survivor of Cambodian genocide and has written about her experience in the book. The movie is available on Netflix.

The movie details link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Killed_My_Father_(film)

The Novel details link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Killed_My_Father

Alright, enough of history, let's draw the parallels.

1) Seeman hates ethnic minorities living in Tamil Nadu, just like how Pol Pot hates ethnic minorities living in Cambodia. Pol Pot still went with his ethnic persecutions ideas despite being a half Chinese himself. Just like how Seeman Na has taught his thambis to hate on Telugus living in Tamil Nadu even though he himself is married to a woman of Telugu ancestry.

2) Seeman gives no shit about other sectors except farming. Pol Plot literally established an agrarian socialist society that Seeman has been dreaming of for a while. Both are admirers of 'Vivasayam paaruda mavane' scheme.

3) Seeman hates western medical science and western science as much as Pol Pot hated western medicine, western medical science during his time.

4) Seeman hates when a guy doesn't talk in Tamil. He wants people of Tamil Nadu to only speak Tamil and no other language. Just like Pol Pot who banned usage of any other language except Khmer. Seeman hates Tamil people speaking in English. Pol Pot used to hate Khmer people who spoke French.

5) Seeman hates when someone criticizes him or questions him. Much like Pol Pot.

6) Today, with 2021 elections, we can say that Seeman has gained lot of popularity in rural areas. Surprisingly, during the Cambodian civil war(1968-1975) and after the end of civil war, many rural Cambodians supported the Pol Pot government. The Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime had a popularity and influence over the rural population of Cambodia at that time.

So now, who do you think Seeman shares more similarities with? Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot?

Now one might ask, "What's the need to post this write-up?"

Well, taking Seeman seriously or criticizing wouldn't do anything to him. In fact, he gives no shit. Even after getting this much trolled and criticized, he is still out there.

Still, I'm posting this all because I desperately want to put some sense into the minds of brain dead thambis, if possible.

Seeman says one thing, has other thing in mind and does some other thing. He would say one thing now, but later say other thing, which would contradict the thing he said earlier. This is why he shouldn't be taken seriously and criticizing and trolling him is of no use.

Seeman is just a joker. A clown.

It's the Tamil youth we need to worry about. The same youth who hold onto his childish ideas and take it all seriously.

Even if tomorrow, hypothetically, Seeman leaves politics, his brain dead thambis would still hold onto his ideas and pass it to others like a virus.

If you ask them how are they gonna save farming and farmers, they would give some very regressive and cringey ideas. They would simply say that we need more people in farming sector without realizing the already existing underemployment in agricultural sector.

They blindly believe Seeman's words that foods produced from high yield variety seeds cause health issues when there's actually no scientific evidence on it.

They don't know anything about farming like in which month crops are harvested, in which season what type of crops are harvested and what type of seeds are sowed at what period of times. They just simply say they need to save farming and farmers without any knowledge on it. They don't know what underemployment is, if they did, they wouldn't be saying that we need more people in farming.

My humble request to all NTK supporters would be to please start reading books and articles written by mindful people. Listen to podcasts and speeches of mindful of people and watch YouTube videos of experts. Not videos of Palani or Saattai Durai Murugan on YouTube. Start questioning your supreme leader Seeman. Ask yourself whether is this guy really the change you wanted.

It's for your sake that I'm writing such a long post.