Interesting read about Communism, US, Lon Nol, KR.
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There is a well-known book called Sideshow by William Shawcross about the US bombing. It was first published in 1979 and is widely available here. The whole article is dumb propaganda which portrays opinions as fact.Andre Vltchek wrote:One question always comes back to my mind:
'How could a nation that suffered so much, losing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of sons and daughters (official number stands at 1.7 million), accept a totally twisted narrative fabricated in Washington, London, Paris and other Western capitals? And not only 'accept' - Cambodia is actually profiting greatly from helping to spread vitriolic anti-Communist propaganda on behalf of its lethal handlers.'
In all the bookstores around the country, the official Western propaganda narrative ('Khmer Rouge killed them all' - style) is on display and on sale: Pol Pot's biographies, gruesome accounts from the so-called Killing Fields, from the torture chambers at the former high school 'S-21' in Phnom Penh, as well as countless and detailed testimonies of the victims.
I asked the owner of a bookshop in Siem Reap:
"What about some books about the atrocities committed by the West? Do you have some volumes about the US carpet bombing of Cambodian countryside, which alone killed several hundreds of thousands of people?"
"Me, not have," she replied, somehow defiantly.
"Do you have books about how millions of Cambodian people were displaced by the carpet bombing of the US and its allies; how they were forced to flee because of unexploded bombs and so-called 'bombies'? Anything about those people starving to death?"
"No have," came the answer.
"Why not?" I asked, politely.
"I don't know", she said, by now clearly annoyed.
Andre Vltchek wrote:The entire country is dependent on handouts, and shamelessly subservient. Most of its teachers, journalists and artists are producing what they are told to produce, say what they are expected to say. Most of them have already lost ability to form their own opinion.
What a ridiculous statement.
Yes, all the thousands of testimonies about massacres are nonsense, according to "the Butcher" Ta Mok's bodyguard.Andre Vltchek wrote:San Reoung, a former personal security man of Mr. Ta Mok, confirmed that all that propaganda about 'Communist massacres' by Khmer Rouge was absolute nonsense:
Absolute bullshit, Khmer survivors almost unanimously blame Pol Pot.Andre Vltchek wrote:And among Khmer survivors, there is a consensus that the majority of people died not because of Communist ideology and not because of direct orders from Phnom Penh to exterminate millions, but because of the officers and local cadres in the provinces who ran amok, taking their personal vengeance out on deported city-dwellers and "elites" whom they blamed for both the savage American bombing from the past, and for supporting the corrupt and savage pro-Western dictatorship of Lon Nol."
EU official wrote:Khmer Rouge killing more than a million Cambodians? Impossible! They had no capacity to kill so many people.
This moron has been discussed here before:
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... hp?t=27228
Here's very convincing story about him being chased out of K11 by violent elderly sex tourists.
We got out, into the broad daylight. There was an entire platoon of bouncers guarding the place. No woman could escape; to make it anywhere near the road, the river. Some of the guards were armed. They had blank looks – totally cold eyes of hardened killers.
And all around, European men, in their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s; drinking beer, flip-flops on their feet; some naked from the waist-up, hairy, boozing up, filling time in between cheap intercourse, defined in Phnom Penh, as ‘shags’.
At this point, my colleague could not control himself, anymore. He pulled out the camera and began photographing this entire scene: of bouncers, guards, and the muzzles of the European sex tourists. I was afraid he had gone mad. But I followed him almost immediately, as at this point, we had been discovered anyway, and nothing really mattered much more, except getting the story out.
We began working like maniacs. And then something incredible happened: those drunk, fat, old bastards began getting up: they ran towards us, with beer bottles as weapons. They could not run fast: they were too pissed and those flip-flops they were wearing slowed them down.
But the guards were much faster.
“Don’t go down to ground!” Screamed my friend. “Whatever happens, stay on your feet!”
We just about managed to get inside the car. They’d kill us if they could, I am sure. The driver was sweating and screaming, he burned the tires, backed up on a slimy dirt road, and managed to pick us up, on time. Then stuff began hitting the hood; ugly smacking sounds, breaking glass. But no shots were fired. And we were getting away.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Spot the BS:
From 2017 article:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/14 ... rror-show/
From 2017 article:
From 2012 article:Outside, my local driver was ready to pitch his services, taking me around, in search of the minefields. He thought I was European. "Chinese mines, Russian mines..." He took long breath, made dramatic pause, and exhaled: "Khmer Rouge no good."
Instead of engaging in a historical debate, I simply asked: "This city - Siem Reap - has 230,000 inhabitants. Is it producing anything?"
The driver hesitated for a while:
"Why should we produce anything? It is cheaper to import goods from Thailand, China and Vietnam. Well, there is some farming outside of the city..."
More:“We don’t produce anything, almost”, explained Ms Sokheang Sun, the owner of a small restaurant near the Royal Museum. “We import food from Vietnam and other countries. Cambodia will soon collapse if it continues like that.
I once came under incoming fire, from a platoon of deranged fishermen, on Tonle Sap Lake, as I was sitting, totally exposed, on the roof of a speedboat, wearing just my shorts, with a cigarillo hanging from my mouth.
So Bun Rany lives in the Royal Palace now?Months later, I spent several thoroughly Kafkaesque hours chatting in the Royal Palace, with the wife of the Prime Minister, Hun Sen. Also known as ‘Lady Macbeth’, she poured her heart out to me that evening, with no restraint, and for no apparent reason.
Yes, tanks driving buy are sure to shake you right out of your bed.And during one of those genuinely Cambodian nights, I fell off my bed, onto the hard tiled floor, as my entire hotel began shaking – that was when the tanks of the then Second Prime Minister, ‘Lady Macbeth’s husband, were getting merrily engaged in staging the coup of 1997.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/14 ... rror-show/
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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