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Cambodian Genocide Program 1975 - 1979 , over 1.7 million died.

Hmm? Who was President? That Peace -loving peanut farmer.. uhh huhhh.

The parallels between Carter and Clinton are unmistakeable.

6 posted on 04/20/2003 7:21:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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From the Yale website for the Cambodia Genocide Program

The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. As in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale.

Since 1994, the Cambodian Genocide Program, a project of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, has been studying these events to learn as much as possible about the tragedy, and to help determine who was responsible for the crimes of the Pol Pot regime. In Phnom Penh in 1996, for instance, we obtained access to the 50,000-page archive of that defunct regime's security police, the Santebal. This material has been microfilmed by Yale University's Sterling Library and made available to scholars worldwide. As of December 2002, we have also compiled and published 22,000 biographic and bibliographic records, and over 6,000 photographs, documents, translations, and maps, along with an extensive list of CGP books and research papers on the genocide.

My own note here - In the spirit of fairness, Yes, Gerald Ford was President for the early portion of the massacre of 1/5 of Cambodia's population.

7 posted on 04/20/2003 7:25:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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