Doubletake: Intended for Evil, The Plan

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Hearing that his father was dead was very nearly the last straw for Radha Manickam. In two years he’d lost almost his entire family under the brutal regime of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. It seemed that God had abandoned him, and one night while lying on an anthill in the middle of a rice paddy, he decided to end it all. But then hope arrived–in a most unlikely place, and a most unexpected way.This series is based on my recent interviews with Radha, along with my 2016 book about his experiences. The book, audiobook, and this series are titled Intended for Evil by Les Sillars.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate)Intended for Evil available as a paperback (https://www.amazon.com/Intended-Evil-Survivors-Courage-Cambodian/dp/080100909X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0) and audio book (https://www.amazon.com/Intended-Evil-Survivors-Courage-Cambodian/dp/B0DDWC5KZ4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0) at Amazon.com

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0:00.0	From World Radio, this is Double Take.
0:04.4	I'm Les Sillers.
0:06.1	When the day lights up, you scare all the time.
0:09.9	And during that first year, the Camaroos still have guns to carry around watching you
0:16.0	working.
0:17.5	So it is hard to see if you are next, or they call you in the middle of the night.
0:24.8	You're the next person they call.
0:27.6	You don't know.
0:34.3	Last time, we followed Radam Manicam through the first two years of the Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia.
0:40.8	The communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April of 1975.
0:45.7	It was the start of probably the most brutal government in modern history.
0:50.1	No other government has ever tried to exert such totalitarian control.
0:55.0	Much Khmer Rouge ideology resembled key elements of Christianity, turned inside out and upside down.
1:01.9	Everywhere there were shadows of biblical truth and a practice.
1:05.7	Love, worship, community, confession, transformation, unity, judgment, virtue, purity, equality, all hideously
1:14.0	distorted under the Khmer Rouge so that they produced hate, fear, idolatry, division, and violence.
1:21.4	Leftist scholars used to split hairs over the extent to which Khmer Rouge ideology reflected
1:26.2	classic Marxism.
1:29.2	But the outlines are clear.
1:33.7	It's the philosophy of Mao executed with the speed and violence of Stalin,
1:35.8	all shot through with xenophobia.
1:41.6	It's as if some alien intelligence distilled decades of totalitarianism from around the world into one monstrous system, and then
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