small tortoiseshell wrote:
> I usually dont pay attention to trials like that but i think i will
> with this one. Its messy it seems and the u.s involvement in the whole
> thing might explain why his old buddy is doing the defense as well.
> He probably wants it all on the table.
> well, i dont know really, just spinning on something i usually dont.
> Rant finished :)
>
>
> "The US not only helped to create conditions that brought Cambodia's
> Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively sup****ted the genocidal
> force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was
> secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The
> extent of this sup****t -- $85 million from 1980-86 -- was revealed 6
> years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan
> Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign
> Relations Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation."
>
> "In 1981, Pres. Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew
> Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to sup****t Pol Pot. The
> US", he added, "winked publicly" as China sent arms to the Khmer
> Rouge(KR) through Thailand."
>
> "In 1980, under US pressure, the World Food Program handed over food
> worth $12 million to the Thai Army to pass on to the KR. According to
> former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,'20,000 to
> 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited. This aid helped restore the KR to
> a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it destabilized
> Cambodia for more than a decade.'"
>
> "In 1982, the US and China, sup****ted by Singa****e, invented the
> Coalition of the Democratic Government of Kampuchea, which was, as Ben
> Kiernan pointed out, neither a coalition, nor democratic, nor a
> government, not in Kampuchea. Rather, it was what the CIA calls a
> 'master illusion.' ... Cambodia's former ruler, Prince Norodom
> Sihanouk, was appointed its head; otherwise little changed. The KR
> dominated the two "non-communist" members, the Sihanoukists and the
> Khmer Peoples' National Liberation Front (KPNLF). From his office at
> the UN, Pol Pot's ambassador, the urbane Thereon Parish, continued to
> speak for Cambodia. A close associate of Pol Pot, he had in 1975
> called on Khmer expatriates to return home, whereupon many of them
> disappeared."
This is unbelievable. Why on earth did they sup****t the Kmer Rouge?
Robert
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