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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...

MALIPO JOURNAL MALIPO, China - After a walk up a steep stone staircase, first-time visitors are astonished when the veterans' cemetery just outside this town finally pops into view: as far as the eye can see, the curving arcade of hillside is lined with row after row of crypts, each with its concrete headstone emblazoned with a large red star, a name and an inscription. Long Chaogang and Bai Tianrong, though, had both been here before. The two men, veterans of China's war with Vietnam, which began with intense combat in mid-February of 1979, return from time to time looking...

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...

John Rambo: Sir, do we get to win this time? That was a line uttered by Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Of course in this movie he's referring to Vietnam and our unfortunate "stalemate" in that war. More to the point, the dialogue illustrates that what the soldiers in the Vietnam War were feeling. Most scholars of that conflict would validate the soldiers by saying that the US Armed Forces were severely hamstrung against the North Vietnamese. From 1957 thru 1975 American soldiers racked up enemy bodies by the 100's but did not end the Communist aggression...

I am watching Hannity give this sKerry apologist say that stopping the war is something to be proud of. Yet, nothing is mentioned about the true results of our defeat. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't millions die in Nam and Cambodia because of our premature withdrawal?

I thought it might be useful to get some basics down from Brinkley's book; the people, the boats, the timelines. This time I was able to get a non-large print version of Tour of Duty, so I will be able to highlight the pages where the information is located. I'm starting with Chapter 10, since that concerns the events of Christmas Eve, 1968) Kerry's boat at Christmas 1968 was the PCF-44 (Page 209). Men on board the PCF-44 are as follows: Drew Whitlow (209), James Wasser, Radarman (213) also second in command (228); Stephen Hatch, Bosun's Mate (214), Stephen Gardner,...

<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>

<p>When a right-wing Austrian politician said to harbor racial feelings reminiscent of Hitler gained a prominent place in his nation’s government a few years back, there were calls for international sanctions. Yet ex-communists who have never renounced their beliefs are regularly elected or appointed to governments throughout Eastern Europe, with nary a peep from the self-same arbiters of political correctness.</p>

The government of Cambodia and international organizations led by the United Nations are trying to agree on a framework for trials against Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide. Two weeks ago, those pushing for a Khmer Rouge trial received a gift from Khieu Samphan, the head of state during the group's 1975-79 control of the Southeast Asian nation. He said he has "no more doubt left" that his Khmer Rouge government committed genocide, though he says he didn't know about any killing at the time. The high-profile quasi-confession is being hyped as an important step to reconciling Cambodia with its gruesome...

Bright red blood which covers towns and plains Of Kampuchea, our Motherland, Sublime Blood of workers and peasants, Sublime Blood of revolutionary men and women fighters! The Blood changing into unrelenting hatred... - the Khmer Rouge national anthem Twenty-five years after the worst holocaust since the Second World War, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan finally admitted last December that genocide did occur in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, the years of Khmer Rouge rule. Samphan was president of ‘Democratic Kampuchea’, which the ultra-murderous Khmer Rouge renamed the Southeast Asian nation, while the infamous Pol Pot was prime minister. Samphan’s...

<p>Twenty-five years ago this week, Vietnamese forces rolled into Cambodia, overthrowing the genocidal Khmer Rouge government and ending a four-year reign depicted fairly in the compelling 1984 film, "The Killing Fields."</p> <p>The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly 2 million people - as much as one-fourth of Cambodia's entire population - between 1975 and 1979. Yet not a single leader of the murderous Marxist regime that called itself Democratic Kampuchea has ever been brought to justice.</p>

A deadlock over the formation of a new Cambodian government is threatening to derail plans to try surviving members of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity. More than five months after general elections, the ruling Cambodian People's Party and the two biggest opposition parties are still at loggerheads over the establishment of a coalition government required by the country's constitution. Senior legal officials have warned that unless a political compromise is reached within the next few weeks, plans to start the trial this year of up to 10 former leaders of the regime blamed for...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - With doves, balloons and promises of justice for Pol Pot's top surviving henchmen, Cambodia's ruling elite celebrated the 25th anniversary on Wednesday of the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people died under the ultra-Maoist regime whose dream of turning the jungle-clad southeast Asian nation into an agrarian utopia descended into the four-year nightmare of the "Killing Fields." Many of the victims -- men, women and children -- were tortured and executed. Others died of starvation, overwork or disease in the vast rural labor camps of 'Year Zero'. After a...

Khmer Rouge leaders face justice after 25 years, writes Mark Baker in Phnom Penh. Chum Mey survived two years of torture and fear in a Khmer Rouge death camp, sustained by thoughts of his pregnant wife and unborn child. Now he lives to bear witness to their murder and the fate of more than 1.7 million Cambodians who died in Pol Pot's killing fields. Twenty-five years ago today, thousands of Vietnamese troops streamed into Phnom Penh to end the brutal four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. But for Chum Mey, liberation spelt tragedy. As he was marched at gunpoint into...

Only senior Khmer Rouge officers will stand trial for 1.7m deaths Sam Serey does not look like a stereotypical perpetrator of crimes against humanity. Shuffling around the potholed roads of the southern Cambodian district of Phnom War in a grubby shirt, ripped shorts and bare feet, this grey-haired, 55-year-old farmer appears more deserving of sympathy than hatred. But he admits that for more than 20 years he was a member of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's Maoist movement which was responsible for the genocide of more than 1.7 million people while it held power from 1975-79. "I was just a simple...

Arn Chorn-Pond, the musician whose story is the focus of "The Flute Player." For Arn Chorn-Pond, heaven and hell are tightly woven in long dulcet melodies played on a bamboo flute that sweeps errant memories back into view.When he plays, he closes his eyes and rides the high notes back to his homeland, Cambodia, back to a youth spent struggling to survive in the notorious "killing fields."In 1975, when the communist Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia, soldiers forced Chorn-Pond and millions of other Cambodians into concentration camps. An estimated 2 million civilians were executed, starved or worked to...

Cambodia, UN sign deal on trials for Khmer Rouge headsAPSaturday, Jun 07, 2003,Page 1 Cambodia and the UN yesterday signed an agreement to hold a genocide trial for former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule claimed about 1.7 million lives. Sok An, Cambodia's chief negotiator of the pact, and Hans Corell, the UN deputy secretary-general for legal affairs, signed the document at Chaktomouk conference hall, which the government has set as the venue for the internationally assisted tribunal. The agreement must still be ratified by Cambodia's legislature, and Corell and others have warned that it may still...

Noam Chomsky is appearing on CSPAN's BookTV In-Depth this Sunday, June 2, 2003, at 12 Noon. In-Depth is a 3 hour interview that can often give insights into the subject's character and thinking that are not readily discoverable in other venues. It is well known at Free Republic that Chomsky is a pathological and compulsive prevaricator whose list of lies and errors are nearly endless, beginning in the 70s with his diehard defense of Pol Pot and his denial of the existence of the killing fields of Cambodia, and continuing to the present day with his speaking tour of the...

Volak Nuon and Dor Premong say they support U.S. efforts to remove Saddam Hussein. SUN/MICHAEL PIGEON Friday, March 28, 2003 - LOWELL Chang Tan didn't mince words when asked for her views on America's war with Iraq. "He is good. Bush very good man," she said, giving a thumbs-up while eating lunch at the Khemara Restaurant in Cupples Square. "She is happy," said cashier Volak Nuon, who interprets Tan's Khmer, "because she thinks Bush will be successful removing Saddam Hussein from power." Like many Cambodians living in Lowell, Tan's family was decimated by the Khmer Rouge in the late...