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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10501223



For those who don't know, he was the basis for the movie, The Killing Fields. He managed to survive the Khmer Rouge's accession to power and escaped Cambodia to tell the story to the world. Most of his family was killed, indeed 1.5 million Cambodians were killed during the Khmer Rouge years.

I urge you all to read up about it today in remembrance.
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Haing Ngor who played him in the film was murdered in an LA street some years ago

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Dith Pran, whom Ngor portrayed in The Killing Fields, said of Ngor's death, "He is like a twin with me...He is like a co-messenger and right now I am alone."


no longer
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Fishy
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Something most people don't realise about Cambodia is:

The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.

Cambodia was SAVED BY COMMUNISTS, The Vietnamese army!
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from another thread

Night Rider said:
the human rights issue is usually in direct proportion to the economic or strategic importance of the country concerned that much is true

just signpost the Pol Pot Kampuchea regime for example, which was only stopped by Vietnam
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dark_light said:
Something most people don't realise about Cambodia is:

The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.

Cambodia was SAVED BY COMMUNISTS, The Vietnamese army!



Au contraire. It's widely known amonsgst people who are interested in SE Asian history that the American carpet bombing lead to massive peasant support for the Khmer Rouge and then that the Vietnamese invasion in 1979 liberated them.

Two things that you didn't mention though. One: The Vietnamese invasion was pre-empted by the Khmer Rouge army invading Vietnam after a series of border disputes, shoot outs and a political meltdown over that issue (and issue two below). It wasn't liberation of the people that the Vietnamese were originally invading for. It was liberation of the government so they could install a puppet government of their own design and backing. The truth about the Khmer Rouge massacres and extreme social engineering only came out after the invasion. No news ever came out of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge rule. Not until near the end when a few journalists and refugees escaped and even then the world was unaware of the extreme scale of the crisis.

Two: The Khmer Rouge had Chinese backing and Vietname had Soviet backing so there was a dispute along ideological lines at the heart of the conflict. The difference being the Chinese Maoist Peasant based Communism against the Marxist-Leninist Urban based Communism of the Soviets. Indeed when Vietnam invaded Cambodia (or Kampuchea as it was then), China invaded the north of Vietnam in a limited punitive invasion. They then withdrew after occupying a small localised area on the Vietnamese side of the border for a short time. Once they felt that the Hanoi government got the point.
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3. NZ support Pol Pot alongside a raft of countires that really should have known better but still ain't learnt a thing

4. one of my best friends lives by the The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum*







*I don't expect everyone in the world to know this fact, only 76% of the global population, the other 24% can go fuck themselves
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Shit that'd be a hell of a thing to wake up to every day...
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dalai said:
dark_light said:
Something most people don't realise about Cambodia is:

The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.

Cambodia was SAVED BY COMMUNISTS, The Vietnamese army!



Au contraire. It's widely known amonsgst people who are interested in SE Asian history that the American carpet bombing lead to massive peasant support for the Khmer Rouge and then that the Vietnamese invasion in 1979 liberated them.

Two things that you didn't mention though. One: The Vietnamese invasion was pre-empted by the Khmer Rouge army invading Vietnam after a series of border disputes, shoot outs and a political meltdown over that issue (and issue two below). It wasn't liberation of the people that the Vietnamese were originally invading for. It was liberation of the government so they could install a puppet government of their own design and backing. The truth about the Khmer Rouge massacres and extreme social engineering only came out after the invasion. No news ever came out of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge rule. Not until near the end when a few journalists and refugees escaped and even then the world was unaware of the extreme scale of the crisis.

Two: The Khmer Rouge had Chinese backing and Vietname had Soviet backing so there was a dispute along ideological lines at the heart of the conflict. The difference being the Chinese Maoist Peasant based Communism against the Marxist-Leninist Urban based Communism of the Soviets. Indeed when Vietnam invaded Cambodia (or Kampuchea as it was then), China invaded the north of Vietnam in a limited punitive invasion. They then withdrew after occupying a small localised area on the Vietnamese side of the border for a short time. Once they felt that the Hanoi government got the point.

I was gonna post dat!!! But I just thought I'd let you have the spot light! Razz Awsum = me