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2009-03-31 Southeast Asia

Khmer Rouge torture chief faces trial for 'Killing Fields' atrocities

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Surprised the usual suspects who support radical redistribution and the 'return to nature' aren't filing briefs on behalf of the accused, because the program of the Khmer Rouge is where their philosophy ultimately leads to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-31 07:16|| 2009-03-31 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The freaking media back in the sixties so glamorized the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge that they could not report on what was happening in Cambodia.
It was no secret what Pol Pot and his cronies were doing. The freaking NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC had an article in 1973-1974 about the preservation of Ankar Wat that included pictures of an abandoned Phenom Phen with captions about how Pol Pot had run everyone out of town and there were 'rumors' of mass graves.
Once the cat was out of the bag, the usual suspects tried to blame the killing fields on American foreign policy in SE Asia. As I remember it, our State Department predicted the killing fields would occur if we left the region, which was ridiculed (the much maligned domino theory)by the media and all of the darlings of the press in the anti war movement.
If you do your research on the region, it was not too long after the flight from Saigon that Pol Pot started his crazy policies.
If the media had done their job,instead of sitting on the story for fear it would make our foreign policy look good, I personally don't think the Killing Fields would have occurred.

Posted by James Carville 2009-03-31 10:29|| 2009-03-31 10:29|| Front Page Top

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