Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Queasy
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People poured into the capital from across the country, including 29-year-old human rights author Susanna Akono who travelled in a coach from Kent. . . .
Akono from Cambodia, who is married to a British man and is pregnant, said that she planned to go on a hunger strike from April 14 in protest against the continuing war on terror.
"I want to do everything I can to make sure my child has a secure future," she said.
I wonder who she'll sue after her child comes out with a birth defect....
Actually, the more laughable irony is that she's from Cambodia. A country torn to shreds and subjected to one of the highest per-capita mass murders in history because the US gave into anti-war protesters just like herself.
Huh? America supported Pol Pot. What is your point?
Um, no. The US supported the previous puppet government the kept Pol Pot from power. As soon as the Left forced the US to pull out of Cambodia, Pol Pot seized power and started his mass murders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
Pol Pot, an enemy of the Soviet Union, also gained support from Thailand and the US. In particular, the US and the PRC vetoed the allocation of Cambodia's United Nations General Assembly seat to a representative of Heng Samrin's government. The US directly and indirectly supported Pol Pot, including for example funneling aid raised for Cambodian relief to the Khmer Rouge.
Pipe dreams suck.
Yes, they do suck. And the pipe dreams are YOURS. Look at the events that lead up to the RISE of the Khmer Rouge. They would not have risen to power had the US not pulled out of Cambodia, and later, Vietnam.
The Domino theory was true. The minute the US pulled out of SE Asia, countries fell like dominos to communist oppression.
Try again.
I hate to make this political but you are simply wrong here:
It has been argued that the Khmer Rouge may not have come to power without the destabilization of the Vietnam War, particularly of the American bombing campaigns to "clear out the Vietnamese sanctuaries" in Cambodia. William Shawcross argued this point in his 1979 book Sideshow.
The Khmer Rouge initially fought US-backed forces but recieved aid during the era in which the atrocities occured.
Um, no. It is YOU who are wrong. The idea that the Vietnam war caused the Khmer Rouge to come to power is absurd and the misguided opinion of some. At any rate, it is not a "fact."
A real "fact" is that had the US NOT pulled out of Cambodia and Vietnam creating a vacuum of power, the Khmer Rouge NEVER would have come to power.
They received our aid a full 8 years AFTER the "killing fields" began when they were at war with Vietnam. A "lesser of two evils" thing I don't agree with, but the point is, they did NOT have our backing to come to power. Their rise to power was directly due to our pulling our of the area.
Reading is good, but it helps to have comprehension and know the difference between opinion, and fact.
"The US not only helped to create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support -- $85 million from 1980-86 -- was revealed 6 years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation."
"In 1981, Pres. Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. The US", he added, "winked publicly" as China sent arms to the Khmer Rouge(KR) through Thailand."
"In 1980, under US pressure, the World Food Program handed over food worth $12 million to the Thai Army to pass on to the KR. According to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,'20,000 to 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited. This aid helped restore the KR to a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it destabilized Cambodia for more than a decade.'"
"In 1982, the US and China, supported by Singapore, invented the Coalition of the Democratic Government of Kampuchea, which was, as Ben Kiernan pointed out, neither a coalition, nor democratic, nor a government, not in Kampuchea. Rather, it was what the CIA calls a 'master illusion.' ... Cambodia's former ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was appointed its head; otherwise little changed. The KR dominated the two "non-communist" members, the Sihanoukists and the Khmer Peoples' National Liberation Front (KPNLF). From his office at the UN, Pol Pot's ambassador, the urbane Thereon Parish, continued to speak for Cambodia. A close associate of Pol Pot, he had in 1975 called on Khmer expatriates to return home, whereupon many of them disappeared."
Four years later, January 1979, Vietnam-responding to years of attacks by the Khmer Rouge against ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia and cross-border raids into Vietnam itself-invaded what was now called Kampuchea, overthrew Pol Pot's government, and installed a government friendly to Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge forces retreated to the western end of Cambodia, by the border with Thailand, and later some set up camp in Thailand itself.
Our enemies in Vietnam actually got rid of Pol Pot. The American gov't funded the Khmer Rouge Guerillas in their battle against the Vietnamese.
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