I remember the killing fields of Cambodia... evil incarnate.
Posted on 04/15/2005 7:02:19 AM PDT by bedolido
Nai Oeurn had reason to celebrate. Cambodia's civil war was over, and as the 14-year-old Khmer Rouge guerrilla marched into the capital, Phnom Penh, he truly believed his country's rural poor had triumphed.
Thirty years later, after the "killing fields" and the death of one-sixth of the Cambodian population, his dream has come to this: collecting cow dung for a living, earning 3,500 riel (90 U.S. cents; 70 euro cents) for a 3-foot-high (90-centimeter-high) pile that takes five days to collect.
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I remember the killing fields of Cambodia... evil incarnate.
Hey! That's Hillary's dream for all of us too!
Errrr, all right, if you say so. Kinda makes me rethink our revolution (not really)
Errrr, all right, if you say so. Kinda makes me rethink our revolution (not really)
Our revolution was a horse of a different. The Brits called it a revolution because their colonists wanted out from under. For us it was, in fact, a war of liberation to reject the Monarchy and be free. American farmers were not fighting American urban dwellers or merchants in any sort of class struggle.
Lots of interesting anecdotes in the book CHILDREN OF THE KILLING FIELDS.
The biggest myth is that the Kymer Rouge were destined to defeat Lon Nol's government. With a better US and Cambodian policy, the people could have been saved from the KRs even with less overall money being spent.
If it takes him five days to collect a three foot tall pile of manure then he must have to collect it from fields and not barns or corrals. I could manure fork a pile larger than that in less than one hour in a horse barn. And the price of 90 cents is bad. Just one 40 lb. bag of cow manure at Walmart costs over $2. (With the DowJonesIA down so much, I'm now following the manure market closely.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
The most frightening thing about that statement is that it could have been said by Pol Pot, Stalin or Mao.
Coming soon to Zimbabwe and Venezeula. These people reap what they sow, no sympathy from me. Back to the dung pile murderer.
Wow. Stalinism is a total failure? Who'd of thunk it?
I agree. Are we supposed to feel sorry for these guys? They tortured and murdered their own countrymen. Payback is a *itch.
He was assigned one cow to collect from?
Well back in '75 the guy needed killin but now I do feel sorry for him. He was recruited at 14 to fight for the cause. Do the same people who think a teacher that has sex with a 15 year old boy should be given XX years in prison because she took advantage of an underage student think that this 14 year should be held accountable for what side he joined.
Look at Christian County, Kentucky. It provided lots of recruits for the Confederate Army early in the war and lots of recruits for the Union Army later in the war. Boys will join the side that is there recruiting/drafting much of the time.
Interesting you mentioned Robespierre. I was just thinking of the parallels between the Cambodian revolution and the French. A hate-driven revolt against the rich which resulted in the deaths, and a greater degradation, of both rich and poor alike.
As was the Texas revolution, except it was a war to be free of the upstart Emperor after he nullified the Mexican constitution.
I remember the fall of Cambodia. There was a candlelight march and celebration of SoCal campuses in support of the Reds.
I bet none of those students are picking up cow s#it for a living.
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