Posted on 11/10/2008 12:32:10 PM PST by bs9021
Escaping the Killing Fields
by: Jesse Masai, November 10, 2008
He survived the cruelties of Communism in Cambodia and later emerged to be one of the most influential opinion-leaders in modern America. Golden Bones is the title of Sichan Siv’s memoir, the story of a Cambodian-born immigrant to the United States.
His journey, as the Director of the Asian Studies’ Center at Heritage Foundation Walter Lohman put it, is “an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia.”
He said: “While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the neighboring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing ‘killing fields’—rice paddies where the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls.”
He continued: “Young Sichan Siv—a target since he was a university graduate—was told by his mother to run and ‘never give up hope!’ Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death or killed. With a daring escape from a logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came upon a colorfully dressed farmer who said, ‘Welcome to Thailand.’”
Speaking at the same function, Siv described his dramatic escape to Thailand, eventual entry into the United States and his rise from obscurity and ordinary life to represent the latter country at the United Nations....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
But that's not what the liberals told us! They said all that the killing, etc. was done because we, the U.S., invaded Cambodia ("Nixon widens war").
Even here, there is no mention of the fact that the NVA was already in Cambodia and that's why we went in there.
That was a war that the MSM ignored because they couldn’t blame it on the GOP. Slaughter of humans is only real if the MSM covers it. Therefore; very few people have died under communism and certainly not millions upon millions.
The killing fields could happen here just as easily folks. Prepare yourselves. Ayers wants to kill 25 million of us.
JoMa
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