Painting showing how babies where killed
by bashing their heads against
a tree, the mother is dragged away, gruesome.
Posted on 01/07/2009 12:52:45 AM PST by GonzoII
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" marked 30 years Wednesday since the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
Up to 80,000 people packed into the capital's Olympic stadium for a rally organized by the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), descendant of the puppet government installed by Hanoi after its troops ousted Beijing-backed Pol Pot on January 7, 1979.
"We have always remembered those who sacrificed their lives to save us from genocide," aging CPP President and former guerrilla Chea Sim told the cheering crowd.
Despite international and domestic repugnance at the Khmer Rouge and their disastrous attempt to create an agrarian utopia, a significant minority of Cambodians mourn January 7 as the start of a 10-year occupation by their hated Vietnamese neighbors.
Political opponents of Prime Minister Hun Sen, a one-eyed former Khmer Rouge commander who has been in charge for the last 23 years, frequently label him a Vietnamese stooge, a charge he rebutted in typically blunt style this week.
"Whoever is against the day of victory is either Pol Pot or an animal," he told a crowd Tuesday at the inauguration of a bridge south of Phnom Penh, now a bustling city of 2.5 million far removed from the derelict ghost town of 1979.
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""Shortly after Cambodia fell into the hands of the Khmer Rouge, soldiers were dispatched to the countryside to disarm the populace. "We are here now to protect you, and no one has a need for a weapon any more," one survivor of the Cambodian holocaust recalled in the January 24, 1994 issue of The New Yorker."
What I remember most about this slaughter, was the dead silence from the ‘peace’ activists and their political allies while this went on. These traitors wailed about the innocents the U.S. were supposedly killing. Even John Kerry labeled every U.S. troops in Vietnam rapists and baby killers.
Once we were out of Vietnam though, it didn’t matter if slaughter on a scale the world has seldom seen was taking place. Jane Fonda, John Kerry, Tom Hayden... it just didn’t matter. These folks had done what their communist bosses wanted them to do. Then Communism once again had it’s chance to work it’s magic.
Between two and three million people died in Cambodia and Vietnam after we left the region. Upwards of half of the humans in Cambodia were slaughtered. Not a peep from the war protesters.
And so it goes, even today. Evil finds loud mouths to front for it. If it isn’t the war in Iraq, it’s Israel. Evil finds a way... and evil people will answer for what they have ushered in when the good Lord judges.
That is exactly what I remember from that sorry era, too.
Likewise, when the Boat People bailed out of The New, Wondrous Vietnam, the silence? Was deafening.
The one thing that is never reported is that without the efforts of the American “Peace Movement”, Pol Pot would not have seized power and 1.7 million Cambodians would never have been slaughtered.
Yep, that’s true. Communism has screwed up more lives than any other ideology in history. And the damned fools in this nation want to see it given another chance. It didn’t get a fair one any of the other times. Talk about your emergent morons...
Islamscrewed up more lives than Communism — it’s been doing that since the 7th century
Actually, the recent slaughters in Africa have pushed Pol Pot down the list of 20th century murderers: I heard that they’ve now killed over 5 million Africans in Islamic/tribal/racial warfare - unseen and unheard by the “liberal” media.
Anyone who thinks there aren't radical Maoists lurking right here in America is delusional.
Yes Cronos, they may have. I still reference the 20 million Russians, the 50 million Chinese, and the three or so million Vietnamese and Cambodians that Communism destroyed in the last 90 years or so.
While Islam has turned the lights out on trillions, has it caused the deaths of 75 million or more? Perhaps it has and I’m just not recognizing it.
I agree.
Thanks for the mention Cronos. I haven’t followed the victims of Islam as closely as you have. I appreciate the comments.
I used your link and read some of the responses over there. Quite revealing...
Thanks — we all learn from one and another. I guess my exp with the dangers of the moon cult lies in my business travel and assignments abroad. I’ve lived a few years in Bahrain, Oman, Belgium, England, India and Singapore and visited other parts of the M-E, Europe and South-East Asia. There is a real danger in the ideology of Isl — the problem is that we meet a few of the followers and yes, they are very nice (in fact, nearly all my experiences in the M-E were positive and they were friendly people), but the ideology is corrosive. Just like we rejected communism and naziism, we need to help others reject this other, older, toxic philosophy.
I agree with that. It’s really too bad too, but when the chips are down, who protests in the streets and who do they protest against? We have a festering disease in our midst. I don’t like saying it, but we are vulnerable. There is simply no need to bring people here from terrorist states, and yet we do it anyway. I like all people, but not to the point of surrendering my life or nation to them.
Well said — keep safe and keep the flag flying.
Thank you Cronos. You too...
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