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Found at: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/Khmer_Rouge.htm Frank Smith’s (1989) analysis of peasant interpretive accounts of the DK years focuses on this theme of reversals in the proper hierarchical order of social relations. Some link these events to a set of Buddhist religious prophecies of a coming time of death and destruction, the put tumniay. According to these predictions a time of war and destruction will include the rise to power to tmil (enemies of the religion). The kingdom will come to be ruled by uneducated, hooligans and drunkards. People will confuse right from wrong. Children will disobey their parents and students their teachers. These reversals extend as metaphors to the animal kingdom, shrimp go up to the mountain top to lay their eggs (1989:1920). According to the prophecies, these changes are linked to Buddhist cycles of time. At the midpoint through a kalpa, or the cycle of time between the coming of one Buddha and the next, human society will reach a low point, when few people survive and life expectancy is short. But the redeeming feature of such a view on the DK period is that the period of destruction of the put tumniey is of limited duration. In fact, knowing that the predictions referred to a time of limited duration and that the tmils would eventually be destroyed were all kept some people going (May 1987: 106). Smith points out that such explanations of the DK period provide a method of explanation for otherwise inexplicable phenomenon. He writes, Contemporary events such as the Khmer Rouge evacuation of the cities, the destruction of Buddhist temples, and brutal executions seem horrendous, senseless and unexplainable when taken by themselves. However, once conceptually related to ageless prophecies, these events seem inevitable in the cyclical flow of Buddhist history. Order is thus given to otherwise disordered phenomena (1989:23). If not specifically linked to the put tumniey prophecies, peasant explanations explored by Smith would often focus on the important cultural theme of a separation between the field and the forest, or the wild and the civilized (explored by David Chandler’s essay we read in lesson one). As wild creatures from the forest, without religion or morality, the Khmer Rouge were seen in retrospect more like animals than humans; they represented the antithesis of what it meant to be Khmer. Because of their stance against religion, because of all the violence, the Khmer Rouge took on the personification of evil in the explanations of DK survivors (Smith 1989: 2529). Again there is some comfort in this interpretation, since in the eternal struggle between good and evil, evil will not be allowed to triumph.