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former9thward

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13. They were communist.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 7, 2014, 02:15 PM

Aug 2014

The took communism to its ultimate level of a pre-industrial society. Basically one big commune based on primitive agriculture. The left at the time ignored the genocide and said it was exaggerated. Norm Chomsky acted as an apologist for Pol Pot in those years. Even after Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979 the Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the UN. The Carter administration and the Reagan administration following both gave the Khmer Rouge money to fight Vietnam in the years after the invasion.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/tl04.html

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Top Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of crimes against humanity [View all] alp227 Aug 2014 OP

It took 39 years to get these murdering scumbags Warpy Aug 2014 #1

Yes but several other Cambodian war criminals died of natural causes before they totodeinhere Aug 2014 #2

I'm with you BrotherIvan Aug 2014 #8

Exactly Warpy Aug 2014 #11

Like this BrotherIvan Aug 2014 #12

Next Stop billhicks76 Aug 2014 #9

Gives me hope that someday even our own war criminals will be brought Purveyor Aug 2014 #3

Don't think that will ever happen, at least while they're alive theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #4

Keep in mind the Right Wing websites claim these guys were Liberals.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #5

And they especially targeted anyone with an education n/t n2doc Aug 2014 #10

They were communist. former9thward Aug 2014 #13

Communism is supposed to be a classless society which is the basis for "Commerade".... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #15

They were a communist movement. former9thward Aug 2014 #16

Those countries have been failures because they have been dictatorships by committee. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #17

Which is the Leninist model. former9thward Aug 2014 #18

History is filled with hijacked populist revolutions.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #19

Finally. eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #6

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2014 #7

History stands and we do remember...Please look for this important Documentary when it makes it's... Tikki Aug 2014 #14

Secretary of State Kerry, who as Senator helped broker the tribunal, commented on this karynnj Aug 2014 #20