As a member of a family (the European side), that was wiped out during the Holocaust, I understand the pain of Om.
Some of us tried to tell the world what the Communists (VC, No. Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge) were doing to that country since at least 1967, but nobody wanted to listen.
Don Kirk did some of the earliest writing about Cambodia and Khmer Rouge atrocities (Chicago Tribune, 1967-68 etc), and I contributed my major piece in Human Events, Dec. 1970 after returning from a trip there and to SVN).
I have the unfortunate distinction of being the only journalist to testify before Congress (twice, July 1974 and April 1975) about the ongoing KR atrocities and the upcoming genocide.
America, esp. the Democrats, abandoned Cambodia and its people to a genocide a half-step below the Holocaust, and I knew people who were slaughtered in the streets of Phnom Penh and in the jungles.
Some of us tried, but the Hanoi Lobby and the Quisling Democats won, and millions died. Never forget that.
A lot of people died to teach us that fact, and we owe it to them to keep warning the world about the next “Khmer Rouge”, be it Achmedgenocide in Iran, Nasrullah of Hamas, Hezbollah, the mass murderers of No. Korea, the slaverers and slaughterers from the Sudan, or whatever evil forces that are arising in Egypt against the Christian Copts, or the Muslim fanatics of Boko Harem against millions of Christians in Nigeria.
Maybe someone will listen this time.
They won’t.
Seems the ‘Western world’ has a history of ignoring active genocide. The Jewish genocide was largely ignored during WWII, even while bombers were in the air, and ‘boots were on the ground’.