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Cambodian Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist, 'Brother Number Two', dead at 93 (Nuon Chea)
Reuters ^ | 8/04/19 | Prak Chan Thul

Posted on 08/04/2019 12:42:47 PM PDT by Libloather

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and 'Brother Number Two' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of some 2 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman said.

A U.N.-backed court found Chea guilty of genocide and sentenced him to life in prison last year, almost four decades after the Maoist regime which oversaw Cambodia's "Killing Fields" was overthrown.

Chea was among a small clique -- led by 'Brother Number One', Pol Pot -- of mostly French-educated communists who rose to lead a bloody revolution against a U.S.-backed government after their country was engulfed by the Vietnam War.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cambodia; dead; khmer; rouge
The extremist ideology of the 1975-79 regime sought to turn Cambodia back to "year zero" in its quest for a peasant utopia.

Awfully similar to the Democrat's chief ideologist and bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

1 posted on 08/04/2019 12:42:47 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Guy is in very unpleasant utopia called Hades now. It’s not funny either.


2 posted on 08/04/2019 12:44:55 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Libloather

sought to turn Cambodia back to “year zero” in its quest for a peasant utopia.

Here they just call it the “Green New Deal”.


3 posted on 08/04/2019 12:45:19 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Libloather

It’s like Hitler or Goering living into their 90s.


4 posted on 08/04/2019 12:46:00 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Libloather

Before there was Antifa and ELF...there was Khmer Rouge and Red Army Faction.
All four are hard core LEFT organizations who tried to make there actions justifiable by claiming the other side was worse.

The only difference between a Communist and a Socialist is a gun and the willingness to use it for an agenda.


5 posted on 08/04/2019 12:48:19 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Libloather
If he's dead, does that mean this is the new Number Two?


6 posted on 08/04/2019 12:48:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: tet68

“.. the chief ideologist ...”

That’s Ok, we can send him any one of the current democrats to take his place.


7 posted on 08/04/2019 12:55:23 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Who does Number Two work for?”


8 posted on 08/04/2019 12:57:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

And the world is just that much better today. I’m gping to celebrate.


9 posted on 08/04/2019 12:59:15 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Heh, heh. Now he’ll spend eternity getting his head dunked into a toilet with Satan yeling, “Who does Number Two work for!?”


10 posted on 08/04/2019 12:59:18 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ClearCase_guy

NICE Prisoner reference.


11 posted on 08/04/2019 1:03:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Libloather

Chea fundamentally transformed Cambodia..


12 posted on 08/04/2019 1:08:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Libloather

Another leftist socialist goes to his just reward.


13 posted on 08/04/2019 1:11:01 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Colt1851Navy

“Guy is in very unpleasant utopia called Hades now. It’s not funny either.”

Yes, but the misery is shared equally.


14 posted on 08/04/2019 1:21:28 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

When Pol Pot croaked himself in the jungle in 1998, a Khmer Rouge vid showed the corpse on ice; later, furniture was piled on top of it, soaked with petrol, and set alight.

The ghastly mass murderer is still a hero on college campuses.

Yet we’re supposed to turn in our guns.


15 posted on 08/04/2019 1:40:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Libloather
Nuon Chea is the pudgy-faced fellow front row left. The context of the photo says it all.



16 posted on 08/04/2019 1:53:32 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Libloather

have a good time in hell


17 posted on 08/04/2019 2:01:27 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: freedumb2003

A great cult classic show.


18 posted on 08/04/2019 2:57:29 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: Libloather

This is Tragedy and Crimes against humanity is NOW being
RE -written-!

1. closer to 4 MILLION MUREDERED! about 35% of the entire country!

PHNOM PENH- was a city of over 1 million—
completely abandoned!- it’s people sent to concentration camps-

2. these LUNATICS started attacking vietnam! and had the asses whooped by the NVA- and then some crazy sense of
normalcy started coming back—

The MASS Murderers were, and are still supported by China!


19 posted on 08/04/2019 3:28:53 PM PDT by mj1234
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