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2013-06-08 Southeast Asia

Cambodia Outlaws Denial of Khmer Rouge Atrocities

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Posted by Fred 2013-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Good move, can't lie about it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-08 07:47|| 2013-06-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 But critics say the law may jeopardize painstaking efforts to heal the country.

Vegas taking bets that the 'critics' are largely Leftists who want to hide their bloody hands in history, as usual.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-08 08:11|| 2013-06-08 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ...IIRC, just about everybody in a national position in Cambodia today has some connection with the KR. There's a bunch of reasons people would want to see this go through.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-06-08 11:08|| 2013-06-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Yah, but if you can't get someone unconnected with the Khmer Rouge to _enforce_ the law, there's no point in having it and lots of reasons to be against it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-06-08 11:34|| 2013-06-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 For instance, if you can't point out that the Chinese were the major foreign backers of the Khmer Rouge and that the father of the current monarch was living in a townhouse condo in Beijing while that government was supporting the depopulatio of Cambodia, it's just another level of whitewash.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-06-08 11:36|| 2013-06-08 11:36|| Front Page Top

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