Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Profile: Cambodia Genocide (Pol Pot) - 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths


http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/pol_pot.htm


An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.

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Pol Pot was born in 1925 (as Saloth Sar) into a farming family in central Cambodia, which was then part of French Indochina. In 1949, at age 20, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics but became absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies. He lost his scholarship and returned to Cambodia in 1953 and joined the underground Communist movement. The following year, Cambodia achieved full independence from France and was then ruled by a royal monarchy.

By 1962, Pol Pot had become leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape the wrath of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia. In the jungle, Pol Pot formed an armed resistance movement that became known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) and waged a guerrilla war against Sihanouk's government.

In 1970, Prince Sihanouk was ousted, not by Pol Pot, but due to a U.S.-backed right-wing military coup. An embittered Sihanouk retaliated by joining with Pol Pot, his former enemy, in opposing Cambodia's new military government. That same year, the U.S. invaded Cambodia to expel the North Vietnamese from their border encampments, but instead drove them deeper into Cambodia where they allied themselves with the Khmer Rouge.



From 1969 until 1973, the U.S. intermittently bombed North Vietnamese sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia, killing up to 150,000 Cambodian peasants. As a result, peasants fled the countryside by the hundreds of thousands and settled in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh.

All of these events resulted in economic and military destabilization in Cambodia and a surge of popular support for Pol Pot.

By 1975, the U.S. had withdrawn its troops from Vietnam. Cambodia's government, plagued by corruption and incompetence, also lost its American military support. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, consisting of teenage peasant guerrillas, marched into Phnom Penh and on April 17 effectively seized control of Cambodia.

Once in power, Pol Pot began a radical experiment to create an agrarian utopia inspired in part by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, which he had witnessed, first-hand during a visit to Communist China.

Mao's "Great Leap Forward" economic program included forced evacuations of Chinese cities and the purging of "class enemies." Pol Pot would now attempt his own "Super Great Leap Forward" in Cambodia, which he renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.

He began by declaring, "This is Year Zero," and that society was about to be "purified." Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion, and all foreign influences were to be extinguished in favor of an extreme form of peasant Communism.

All foreigners were thus expelled, embassies closed, and any foreign economic or medical assistance was refused. The use of foreign languages was banned. Newspapers and television stations were shut down, radios and bicycles confiscated, and mail and telephone usage curtailed. Money was forbidden. All businesses were shuttered, religion banned, education halted, health care eliminated, and parental authority revoked. Thus Cambodia was sealed off from the outside world.

All of Cambodia's cities were then forcibly evacuated. At Phnom Penh, two million inhabitants were evacuated on foot into the countryside at gunpoint. As many as 20,000 died along the way.

Millions of Cambodians accustomed to city life were now forced into slave labor in Pol Pot's "killing fields" where they soon began dying from overwork, malnutrition and disease, on a diet of one tin of rice (180 grams) per person every two days.

Workdays in the fields began around 4 a.m. and lasted until 10 p.m., with only two rest periods allowed during the 18 hour day, all under the armed supervision of young Khmer Rouge soldiers eager to kill anyone for the slightest infraction. Starving people were forbidden to eat the fruits and rice they were harvesting. After the rice crop was harvested, Khmer Rouge trucks would arrive and confiscate the entire crop.

Ten to fifteen families lived together with a chairman at the head of each group. The armed supervisors made all work decisions with no participation from the workers who were told, "Whether you live or die is not of great significance." Every tenth day was a day of rest. There were also three days off during the Khmer New Year festival.

Throughout Cambodia, deadly purges were conducted to eliminate remnants of the "old society" - the educated, the wealthy, Buddhist monks, police, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and former government officials. Ex-soldiers were killed along with their wives and children. Anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot, including eventually many Khmer Rouge leaders, was shot or bludgeoned with an ax. "What is rotten must be removed," a Khmer Rouge slogan proclaimed.

In the villages, unsupervised gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden. Young people were taken from their parents and placed in communals. They were later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of often-unwilling couples.

Up to 20,000 persons were tortured into giving false confessions at Tuol Sleng, a school in Phnom Penh, which had been converted into a jail. Elsewhere, suspects were often shot on the spot before any questioning.



Ethnic groups were attacked including the three largest minorities; the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cham Muslims, along with twenty other smaller groups. Fifty percent of the estimated 425,000 Chinese living in Cambodia in 1975 perished. Khmer Rouge also forced Muslims to eat pork and shot those who refused.

On December 25, 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia seeking to end Khmer Rouge border attacks. On January 7, 1979, Phnom Penh fell and Pol Pot was deposed. The Vietnamese then installed a puppet government consisting of Khmer Rouge defectors.

Pol Pot retreated into Thailand with the remnants of his Khmer Rouge army and began a guerrilla war against a succession of Cambodian governments lasting over the next 17 years. After a series of internal power struggles in the 1990s, he finally lost control of the Khmer Rouge. In April 1998, 73-year-old Pol Pot died of an apparent heart attack following his arrest, before he could be brought to trial by an international tribunal for the events of 1975-79.

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  • 5 comments:

    1. Anonymous9:39 PM

      Hope and Change tour 1975-1979

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    2. samir sardana8:20 AM

      One of the most rmis-understood and reviled personalities in Khmer history is Pol Pot - the communist educated in Paris.

      Who were the targets of Pol Pot ? It was the Vietnamese Yuon and the "Other Khmer" - on basic principles of exploitation and burden on the scarce resources and society.

      Besides taking over Khmer land and timber ( as a compensation for the war on the Khmer Rouge), there are millions of Viet yuon settled in Khmer land - as traders - and not manufacturers or industrialists. They are also the hidden voters of Hun Sen and the eyes and ears of Viet Int.

      The Viet contribution to the nation of the Khmer is Nil and if the Khmer cannot do, what the Viets do - then the Khmer do not deserve a nation.Even the Rubber and timber goes back to Vietnam for processing.

      AND SO - AS POL POT SAID - Y NOT EXTERMINATE THE VIETS - AS ALSO ,SAID IN A DIFFERENT WAY BY SAM RAINSY

      The Thais are on the Thai-Khmer border with rice mills and other industries and the concessional power sold by the Thai Grid.Inspite of that,the marginal Thai Population is settled only near the border areas

      The Chinese have built the infra,ports,SEZ,roads and whatever little industry exists in Khmer land.Like in Thailand - the Han Chinese control the trade,commerce, manufacturin etc.Even in so called Muslim nations like Indon-ass-eeah, all that works,from Railways to bureaucracy is due to the Han Chinese

      And then we come to the 2nd evil. The mongrel faced,dark/black skinned ,Frog faced, diminutive,limpet Khmers. These are the DNA and offspring of the Indians. People say I am a racist.

      Plastic surgery can change the colour of your skin,eyes,hair,toes,public hair.....,but he core cranial,facial bone structure and other peculiarities of the human body never change - even in 5000 years.An African and a European can never LOOK like the either.

      Similarly, a South Indian is basically descended from a Negroid ,and is called a Sudroid. A Khmer woman who was seduced by an Indian Limpet Kaundinya - should she be crucified ?

      These mongrel skinned,frog faced Khmers ,linegaed from Indians, ARE NOW OBSOLETE AND A BURDEN ON THE KHMER NATION.POL POT had Chinese/Thai DNA.These mongrels,due to their insecurity and complexes,harp on the legacy of Angkor ....... etc., which is a trait of a defeated and failed race. At the same time,they are also ashamed of their lineage to "Indians".

      History has shown that the Mongol DNA was always superior to the Indian DNA (which is a mongrel DNA - as there is no such thing,as an Indian DNA)

      POLPOT targetted these vermin - Khmers with Indian DNA.If you look at the photos of S-21, you will see these people and the Viet Yuon.

      As time passes these vermin will get morre obsolete and more violent - and will be completely taken over by the Viet Yuon, Hans, PRC and the Thais.

      Basically,every one is waiting for Hun Sen to die.

      Pol Pot was the only man who spotted the verminage in the Khmer nation - which none spotted or spoke about - let alone acted upon.dindooohindoo

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    3. samir sardana1:50 PM

      How and why did Theravada Buddhism and Hindooism come to Khmer lands - and which culture doomed the Khmer nation ?

      Angkor Wat was built for Shiva and Vishnoo - Satanic Hindoo Gods- with the "Wat mean to represent the cosmic earth" - the towers are Mount Meru,the water is the oceans and the walls are the mountains that are the boundaries of earth - "100% Bogus Dindoo Hindoo Mythology".It is also an evil theology.dindooohindoo

      Then comes Jayavarman the Indian, "who turned his back on Hindooism and became a Mahayani" and tried to synthesise Hindooism with Mahayana Boodheesm (which Huen Tsang could not) - and this was the apogee of the Khmer race (not empire).Integration of two apposite opposites is a sign of sure madness

      As a matter of dialectical distribution,when "Hindooism was doomed in the Indian Shithole",it had "peaked in Campoocheeee and the Cham Yuon Kingdom" (Hence,the Khmer race and kingdom was an aberration of history and thrived only when they were Hindoos ,as they were guided by the Hindoos of the shit hole of South and East India)

      It is sad,But true.

      The Hindoos of India are vermin - but they were, as "a race, far more advanced" than the Yuon,Chams,Mon and the Tais, at that time

      It is an imprint of history, that when "Hindooism was being raped" in Dindoo Land of India - the "Hindoo Bogus Cosmos was built as the Angkor", in Campoochee by Hindoo Limpets (there is no such representation of the Dindoo Philosophy of Earth and the Cosmos in India!)

      The Doom of the Khmer race started only after the construction of the Hindoo Wat - as it is a "representation and architecture of pure evil and satanism" (the anti-thesis of Boodha and Boodheesm)

      The Hindoo King "who built the Angkor was killed by Hindoo Cham Kings"

      After the death of Jayarvarman (like in Hindoo India) "his sons became Saivities", and "destroyed all the Buddha stupas and made them Lingas" - as they were "mad Saivites"

      By the time of the death of Jayaraman,the "Thais and Yuon were Theravadas" and the Mons (From Myanmar) also, were Theravadas

      All these Theravadas then,after the death of Jayaraman, "ganged up and raped" the land of the Campoochee (stole their gold/ silver/ gems/rubies/books and Angkor was destroyed to oblivion and lost to history) and converted them to Theravadas

      Then came in the invasion of the Theravada Boodheesm - Hinayana - and the "doom of the nation of the Campoooheee Limpets started" (The Dark Ages-1431–1863,
      started,when the Thais took over Angkor in 1431)

      Theravada Boodheesm led to the "Death of the DevaRaja" and the "God Kings", and in that "cusp of history" - the Boodheests of Campoocheee started "ruminating over
      their new purpose of life" - and doom soon followed !

      History records that "every nation that adopted Theravada Boodheesm has been doomed" - as under:

      India (destruction of Boodheesm and rape by the Mughals,Turks, Huns,Mongols,Kushans,Afghans,Chinese,Brits and the Portugese)
      Sri Lanka (Civil war,strife,genocide,vassal state of India/China)
      Laos (2 million dead in Viet war,vassal and slave state of China/Vietnam and Thailand)
      Vietnam (raped by the Mongols and Yankii - who killed 5 million Yuon and left oranges,as gifts)
      Campoocheeah (raped by Yuon and Siam for centuries,and then Pol Pot killed off 5 million)

      So,how and why did Theravada Buddhism come to Khmer lands ?

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    4. samir sardana1:53 PM

      As per the Mahabharata – “the Naga"s – from whom,the Khmer are offspringed (as per their claim), are a "doomed race” (refer Pol Pot) – as per a curse in the Mahabharata – but the “real curse”, is as under :

      The Khmer were “Dindoo Hindoos for centuries” – that is “enough time to destroy the DNA” – even of a Dinosaur
      From 100 BC to the 7th Century AD Campoochee was a “vassal state of the Chinese Kings” – it was called Funan/Chenla – a pure Dindooo Hindoo Saivite kingdom !
      The Campoochee Limpet kings.”called themselves Deva Rajas” (God Sons) and were guided in their Courts, by “Hindoo Brahmins” ,imported from the shithole of India (The Khmer did not read Indian History!)
      Any nation that “runs on Hindooism and Brahmins is doomed” – as per the Rigveda (but the Khmer limpets can neither read Dindoo Indian History nor the Vedas)
      Until the Khmer Limpets were pure Dindoo Hindoos – there was “some hope”,like with the last Dindoo Hindoo King Suryavarman (a Saivite Dindoo Hindoo,who built Angkor Wat) - but Y ? Hindooism was doomed and pillaged in India at that time ? dindooohindoo

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    5. samir sardana9:00 PM

      Events in the History of a nation - which scar a nation and its people - are similar to the history of other nations - with people, of the same DNA

      Take the trauma of the Khmer - w.r.t Vietnam - on Khmer Krom.1 Million Khmer living like dogs in Yuon Vietnam - AND with millions of Yuon, exported to Khmer land - as farmers, fishermen and traders is the combo doom

      Hoon Sen has not raised the issue of the millions of Yuon, in Khmer land - as they vote for him ! And Hoon Sen has not raised Khmer Krom with the Viet govtt, ever - not the land seized by the Yuon - but the rights of the Khmer in Yuon Land !

      Y ? Hoon Sen is a Viet spy and stooge.The Viet intel have dirt on Hoon Sen - w.r.t his work with Pol Pot and his collaboration with Viet Intel - when he was with the Khmer Rouge - and his extra-marital affairs,rapes,murders and mistresses.dindooohindoo

      But even before Krom, the Viets have been using low cost options, to rape Khmer - like the Viet sex bomb, who seduced the Khmer limpet King Chey Chetta - and took over his land, and then killed the limpdick

      ALL THE ABOVE IS THE HISTORY OF THE INDIANS - WHICH IS THE DNA OF THE KHMER AND KHMER KINGS LIKE CHEY CHETTA AND HOON SEN

      Indians were raped and pillaged by several races - and Indians ceded their land AND THEIR WOMEN - to save their lives.It was WW 2 which created India - like Khmer land. Before that there was no Indian nation - just a Brit colony.

      Many Indian Kings were killed by their wives and lost their gold and kingdoms.

      Like Khmer land - there is no Indian race and the ruling elite are all invaders who stayed in India for 500-1000 years.The true Indians are dark/black skinned and called Dasyus.

      Khmer land is controlled by Chinese.Yuon,Thai and PRC - in terms of economic and commercial power.The Khmer re employed as menials and scavengers.

      The Chey Chetta story is like the story of an Indian Coward king called RAMAGUPTA

      What did this rat Rama Gupta do ? The limpet banis went to war,with the Sakas - and they trapped him,and captured the limpet.Then what did the bania do ? The Sakas asked for the bania's wife,as security - and the bania,sent his wife,to the Sakas (just like Lord Rama ,told Sita,to whore herself).

      Then the historians make us believe,that the brother of the bania,went dressed as the wife of Ramagupta, went to the Sakas,and rescued the whore wife of Ramagupta, and killed the Saka king !? (just like the story of Chammiya Padmini).It is possible that the Mughals asked for sex with Chammiya Padmini - based on the past hindu track record, w.r.t Ramagupta.

      And then what could be the next step ?

      Then the brother of the limpet Ramagupta,killed Ramagupta and married the wife of Ramagupta ! It is said that the whore wife,of Ramagupta, was earlier,meant to marry the other brother !

      JUST LIKE CHEY CHETTA AND HIS FAMILY

      Which nation will be destroyed 1st - India or the Khmer land ?

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