I testified before Congress, twice (July 1974 and April 1975) about the Khmer Rouge’s policies of genocide. Never get any press coverage despite the fact that I released a “sanitized” US State Department report by Ken Quinn, on these very policies and tactics to these committees.
There was a nice section on my first testimony/the Quinn Report, in Prof. Louis Fanning’s book “Betrayal in Vietnam”, 1976/77 but that was the only place I ever learned of having referred to my testimonies.
I tried to warn people of what was coming (I’m from a Holocaust family of WW2), but the media ignored what I was saying, just like they ignored so many more knowledgeable reporters and scholars about what would happen in So. Vietnam (Pike, Duncan, Hosmer, Hoang Van Chi, etc) if the communists won.
We were right but being “right” didn’t stop the torture, murder and genocide.
Today, Iraq, Afghanistand Israel all face a genocidal enemy, and in the long run, so does the Western/Judaeo-Christian world from Islamic fascists.
We raise our voices again, but is anyone listening? Certainly not at the State Department (John F**king Kerry, the betrayer of our soldiers/sailors and SVN) or in the White House where the closet Moslem/Marxist turns a deaf ear to the pleas for help coming from Mosul, Kirkuk, and much of Iraq, from the streets of Israel re Hezbollah and Hamas/Fatah, and from the non-Taliban women and teachers of Afghanistan.
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it!
Not me, but I am only one person. However, I will not be silenced in my efforts to again warn the world about the genocide to come.
That’s very interesting information. I applaud your efforts then and your continued efforts. We simply must prevail in standing up for our rights, our country and our people, well, I can’t name every issue there is so much wrong today in our country and our world. We must stand and be heard! I agree!
Regarding the Cambodian situation, I have a friend who is married to Sydney Schanberg who covered the fall of Cambodia and is the subject of the movie, The Killing Fields. I’m wondering if you ever ran in to him with your involvement in this.
Of course, his politics is polar opposite - he’s very left wing.