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1.8 million were slaughtered in Pol Pot's Year Zero atrocities of the 1970s. His victims still wait for justice. Imagine a tsunami 10 times as destructive as the one we witnessed in south-east Asia. Imagine that nearly 2 million people have been wiped off the face of the earth. Surely the world would be rushing to help, pouring in millions of dollars and bundles of compassion in the wake of such an unspeakable catastrophe? Just such a tragedy did happen more than a quarter of a century ago. Yet the people most affected by it received little in international help...

What was the Iraq war about?.... The anti-war position is still based on the same three claims as 2003. First, the war was illegal because it was not specifically sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council. This means that the 18 mandatory resolutions that the council had passed on Iraq were not even worth the paper they were printed on. Nor is the anti-war party concerned about the fact that legally speaking Iraq had been at war against the United Nations since August 1990. The fact that the British parliament, the U.S. Congress and parliaments in a dozen other democratic...

This is a look into the minds of our enemies. Keep this in mind when you hear the left praise terrorism today. ===== Distortions at Fourth Hand Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman The Nation, June 25, 1977 Books & The Arts George C. Hildebrand and Gareth Porter. Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution. Monthly Review Press (1976). Francois Ponchaud. Cambodge Année Zéro. Julliard Press. Paris (1977). John Barron and Anthony Paul. Murder of a Gentle Land. Thomas Y. Crowell (1977). * * * On May 1, 1977, the New York Times published an account of the "painful problems of peace" in...

SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, “I’m the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia.”

American Friends? HardlyBy Gordon LambFrontPageMagazine.com | June 5, 2003 When the first Quakers arrived in America in the late 17th century, they were thought of as heretics, sometimes witches and routinely bizarre. Theirs was a religion based on the ideas the individual is supreme, that the relationship between God and man is a very private affair not to be regulated by government or society, that temperance ("all things in moderation") is a noble way to live one's life. Above all, it prized peace and stated that violence should be avoided if at all possible.The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has mastered...

Long-lost Khmer Rouge soldiers emerge from jungle   By Ek Madra LOUT, Cambodia (Reuters) - When Vietnamese troops overran his village in 1979, Romam Chhung Loeung, aKhmer Rouge guerrilla, had no option but to flee with friends and family into the dense jungle ofnortheast Cambodia. Twenty-five years later, the group emerged from the forest in clothes made of bark and leaves,unaware that the war was over, the Vietnamese had gone and Pol Pot was dead. In an extraordinary tale of human survival, the refugees lived on whatever scraps they could find inthe jungle, fearful of any contact with humans, who...

A Cambodian expert on the Khmer Rouge said Friday he has asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to help raise funds for a long-delayed U.N.-backed tribunal to try surviving leaders of the genocidal regime. The Cambodian government and the United Nations first discussed creating an internationally assisted tribunal in 1997. Cambodia finally ratified a pact with the United Nations for its creation in October this year. Finding funds for the court is seen as the final hurdle. Earlier this month, the two sides agreed a budget of US$56.2 million (€42.4 million) for the court. The government will shoulder US$13.2 million...

October 31, 2004, 12:42 p.m. John Kerry's Other Vietnam WarWhy would we trust this man to be our president? By Stephen Morris John Kerry has fought this election campaign as a political moderate. Certainly his main foreign-policy advisers are moderate Democrats. But that campaign posture disguises his 34-year record in public life — which produced no legislative achievement, but featured a well-documented obsession with Vietnam and Cambodia that continues to the present day. Kerry made his four and a half months of service in Vietnam an electoral issue, but it's his 34 years of political activism on Vietnam and...

The Khmer Rouge followed a harsh brand of communism, killing nearly two million people in their bid to return Cambodia to Year Zero. Now they have a new faith: evangelical Christianity. Hundreds of former fighters have been baptised in the past year. The Khmer Rouge's mountain stronghold, the town of Pailin in south-west Cambodia, has four churches, all with pastors and growing congregations. At least 2,000 of those who followed Pol Pot, the guerrillas' former leader who died six years ago, now worship Jesus. Many new converts were involved in the bloody battles, massacres and forced labour programmes that led...

WRITTEN BY LT.COLONEL CHARLES WADE Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Even before the primary elections, President Bush’s military service was a political issue as was Senator Kerry’s military service which he touted and others questioned. Reporters continue to seek comment from candidates, political operatives, and pundits. It seems that everyone is an expert, and everyone has an answer. Some of the more interesting responses have come from Republican senators who typically begin by asserting that they honor Senator Kerry’s Viet Nam service, but… Honor: What is that all about? What virtues are honorable? More important, what virtues are both militarily and...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - King Norodom Sihanouk, a quixotic ruler who freed Cambodia from its colonial shackles but failed to keep it out of the Vietnam War or the clutches of the brutal Khmer Rouge, has abdicated, his son says. The frail 83-year-old monarch, apparently frustrated by interminable political infighting in his impoverished nation, asked on Thursday that the search for a successor begin. Despite declining health and diminished political clout in his twilight years, Sihanouk looms large over everyday life, his smiling image adorning homes and shops across the land. But for all his popularity, the ailing monarch could...

The explanation for Senator John Kerry that he was in “Cambodia on Christmas 1968” is by now a famous if not humorous footnote to his overall portrayal of hi own Vietnam War experiences. It is seared in his own, and now our own, memories. However the statement by John Kerry of his whereabouts at that time begs a very important question. Did Kerry in fact violate a secret oath, made official by his signature, under penalty of severe punishment?William Shawcross, in his 1979 book Sideshow, detailing covert U.S. operations in Cambodia during the period of the Royal Cambodian government...

This might be another nail in the Kerry-in-Cambodia coffin: how often, other than the 1986 Senate statement, did the "5 miles inside Cambodia" claim include encounters with Khmer Rouge? Apparently there were only 3,000 khmer rouge soldiers in 1970(at the takeover; increasing to 50,000 by late 1972.) In 1969 they were set up to put pressure on the government in Phnom Penh, the capital. So they wouldn't be hanging around the Cambodia-Vietnam border. http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/banyan1.htm banyan1 to banyan6 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0827552.html http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/k/kh/khmer_rouge.html At least Kerry has not fabricated his own name.

I am John Kerry. I was against the first Iraq war, I am against the second Iraq war, but I voted for it. Now I'm against it but I was for it. I support the UN. I'm against terrorism and against the Iraq war. But I voted for the Iraq war. So, I voted against the first war and supported the second war, wait... I'm against gay marriage but for gay unions. I support gays but think the SF mayor is wrong. I support gay marriages. No, wait, gay unions. I'm Catholic. Wait, I'm Jewish. My dad was Jewish. But...

MIDI - IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...in the midst of war In Cambodia, Christmas trees, blow in the winter breeze Lt. Kerry wonders what's in store It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...he's set to depart But he bangs his head in the door and he writes himself up for One more purple heart John Kerry's telling his guys there's someone to despize Richard Nixon, who sent them there Even though Nixon is not yet in office, John Kerry doesn't much care He's got to blame it...

Khmer Rouge Noun: A Cambodian Communist movement that was active as a guerrilla force from 1970 to the late 1990s and held power under the leadership of Pol Pot from 1975 to 1979.

Before the Serbian massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, before the Hutus slaughtered the Tutsis a decade ago, the Khmer Rouge turned on hundreds of thousands of other Cambodians and in their twisted ideology shot, knifed, clubbed and starved them to death. The United Nations has established war crimes tribunals to try those charged with crimes in the former Yugoslavia, including its onetime president, Slobodan Milosevic, and in Rwanda. Yet in Cambodia, leaders of the Khmer Rouge walk free nearly 30 years after the atrocities they unleashed. There is still time for the country's leaders to face up to history and...

      FridayMay 21, 2004 Home Now Playing Movie Reviews Articles Honor About My Diary Search Subscribe Movie Reviews S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Reviewed May 19, 2004) Rating: There is an oriental quality about the look of the Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. But the movie’s purpose is very Western. Mr Rithy Panh — who, after escaping from the killing fields at the age of 15 in 1979, was educated in France — wants to know why the Khmer Rouge murdered two million people, a quarter of the population of Cambodia,...

<p>RANDOLPH -- The mass graves found after Saddam Hussein was removed from power in Iraq brought back memories of the mass killings in Cambodia for Dith Pran, who has no doubt about whether the United States should have invaded Iraq.</p>

PAILIN, Cambodia - The top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge (news - web sites) admitted he made "mistakes" during the feared regime's rule but denied being guilty of genocide and rejected the idea that millions of people died. Nuon Chea, second in command under Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, told The Associated Press in an interview he would gladly appear before a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal pursuing top Khmer Rouge leaders. His comments appeared to be the latest in regime leaders' efforts to get their versions on the record before being called to trial. "I admit that there was...