Resetting Time and Restarting with the Rootstock

"Pol Pot, who seized control of the capital city of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 and declared “Year Zero,” a reset of time, history, and the outside world" 

-  John Vilanova, "Mongol Hordes, the Khmer Rouge, and the Islamic State: Non-Modern Conceptions of Space and Time"

 

farmers "are to be learned from rather than taught"  

- David Chandler, discussing Khmer Rouge ideology

"The Khmer Rouge’s project can be likened to a continually accelerating tornado of events... nostalgically backwardlooking and utopian, hyper-emancipatory in its claims and unique in its brutality..." 

- Andrus Ers, "Year Zero: The Temporality of Revolution Studied Through the Example of the Khmer Rouge" 

 

"Even myself and other members of parliament that I talk to, they are scared to go to rural areas because, you know... The grassroot is there..." 

- Ahmad Yahya, member of Cambodian parliament, in 1997