Posted on 09/05/2016 1:51:48 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Never was there a finer example of ideologues seeing what they wanted to see than the era of Cambodian genocide. Only Orwell, prescient as ever, got it right.
Sidney Schanberg, who died in July, was an award winning journalist who covered the Vietnam War and genocides in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and Cambodia. Perhaps more than any other reporter, Schanberg made western publics aware of the terrible suffering the people of Cambodia endured under the three-and-a-half-year reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979). Disregarding the wishes of his editors at the New York Times, Schanberg stayed on after other westerners had left Phnom Penh as the Khmer Rouge approached the city. He was forced out of Cambodia not long after the Khmer Rouge took power, but before departing he witnessed the forced evacuation of the capital and largest city in Cambodia as well as executions by officials of the deposed government.
Dith Pran, Schanberg’s Cambodian assistant, translator, and friend, was forced to remain in the country and endured the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge government. Dozens of members of his extended family including his four siblings were killed between 1975 and 1979. . .
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If the BLM folks ever got their way, this is precisely what would happen.
Leftists were killing millions of bourgeois and trying to build a perfect Leftist society on top of the ruins of an older Civilization and so the pansy Leftist journalists here decided to look the other way? Because this was exactly they had dreamed of doing right here at home?
I recommend The Killing Fields film to educate younger freepers on the horrors of Cambodia. It features a very young John Malkovich and it’s very good if very violent.
To this day, I remember reading in the newspapers about people with eyeglasses being shot and city workers being forced out of cities into the fields. It sticks in my mind the way the early reports of AIDs turned up in the old NYTs before it was totally pc.
True. But although many think its over, there is something different in Americans than anywhere else on earth. Even among low lifes there is a natural resistance to authority.
I want to see someone try the Phnom Penh, or the Nazi relocation trick here. That’s a good way to get your head blown off for your trouble.
I believe Dith Pran was murdered in Los Angeles by other Cambodians - some of whom were Khymer Rouge and got in through loopholes.
Remind us of anything??!
You are thinking of Hang S. Ngor, who portrayed Pran in The Killing Fields.
That was Haing S. Ngor, the actor who played Dith Pran in the movie.
And as the POS Chomsky observed in the article (that the right would use what happened in Cambodia as an “I told you so” moment) so it will be if people who think like BLM get their way, that there will be many of us who would say “We tried to tell you so.”
Leftists just hate it when you use actual proof of their failures against them, it is somehow “unfair” to them.
We visited Cambodia last year. Only 10% of the population is over sixty.
If conservatives and patriots are ever eliminated, the left-wing groups will be the next to be purged. Only the elites of these leftist groups, with skills to assist the elites, will be spared.
Those of us on the right missed nothing!
We didn’t miss what happened in Cambodia, and we didn’t miss the fact that the Left in the United States didn’t offer up one word against what took place there.
The same folks that demonized the U.S. minute by minute for years based on the idea we made human life hell in Vietnam, had no such concerns for human life in Cambodia. For the record the population was close to 4 million in Cambodia in those days, and it’s is estimated very close to half were killed by Pol Pot and his merry band of Leftists.
Our Leftists who ignored this were frauds through and through. We on the right knew it, called them on it, and the media gave them a complete pass.
Even when movies were made, the political connections weren’t. The Leftist never accept credit for what they facilitate, and they facilitated the Communist take-over of Vietnam and what happened in the vacuum that resulted.
As for the bombing in Cambodia, isn’t it interesting that has to be brought up 40 years later, when the reasons for it aren’t germane. Thus a writer can trash the U. S. for the bombing absent any push-back. Another words, the U. S. was evil too, on a par with Pol Pot.
Screw this jackass and the misinformation boat he paddled in on.
Not mentioned here, obviously because of the implications, are the massive deaths in Vietnam as the purge took place at the end of the U. S. presence there.
Nope, Leftists never accept that their actions resulted in hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths. On to the next F-— up.
Just look at the U. S. right now, and what’s taking place here. The Leftists won’t own any of this down the road. Why it was all the over-reaction by the Right.
We have some sick twisted folks in our nation. They aren’t on the right either.
23M background checks for gun purchases in 2015, 18M through Aug 2016 - might present a bit of a road bump to their plans.
Oh, dear! I really made a boo-boo!
Yes, that’s true - it was the lovely actor who was murdered!
Yes, I corrected it in Post 14 but suspect I’ll hear from a lot of people!
Yes, you’re right.
I saw the trashy movie, "The Killing Fields," where the movie and Hollywood took ten years to report the Cambodian auto genocide. The "Killing Fields" movie did not mention the Khymer Rouge were Communists -- even once! The only reason I knew about the Cambodian auto genocide of 1974 -- 1975 was because I happened to run across John Barron's article in the "Reader's Digest" and read it. And that article was in the 70s while the Khymer Rouge were still in power in Cambodia. That crappy movie, "The Killing Fields," came out after Hollywood's favorite Communists -- the Vietnamese -- took over Cambodia from the Khymer Rouge and repeated the incident that John Barron in "The Reader's Digest" exposed ten years before that horrid "Killing Fields" movie.
Yup! Some Cambodian street gang murdered the talented actor/doctor.
And Chmsky did his own holocaust denial with the Cambodian auto genocide. It was logical for Chomsky to do so as he also defended traditional holocaust deniers. With the Khymer Rouge killing about a million Cambodians, Chomsky gave a different spin to his holocaust denial.
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