by Lucky Lucan » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:46 pm
Abou-Gor wrote: ....if Cambodia had seen the benefit of the huge sums of money donated to it as a whole..., and not him and his family and all his cronies..
It has benefited hugely, I don't see how anyone can argue that. I understand that some have benefited much more than others. Show me one country where the leaders don't benefit disproportionately.
There were a few that were trained for the invasion with him - he had most of them killed.
Where is your source for that? I've never heard anything about it. There were tens of thousands in the Salvation Front. The bulk of its members were either Khmer communists who had been in Hanoi since 1953, refugees from DK, or defectors from Democratic Kampuchea, most of middle or low rank. Eventually the former DK faction took precedence, but not before it had also taken in many officials from the former Sihanouk/ Lon Nol regimes too. There was no big massacre, some of the Hanoi faction may have found themselves side-lined. Eventually most did probably did ok though.
Here's the central committee list for the KUFNS/FUNSK:
Central Committee of FUNSK consists of 15 members, Heng Samrin as Chairman, Chea Sim as vice president, Ros Samay as secretary general. Revolutionary People's Council decreed on January 8, 1979: Heng Samrin (Chairman), Vice Chairman: Pen Sovan. Headed by Heng Samrin, Revolutionary People's Council of Kampuchea includes Hun Sen (Foreign Affairs), Keo Chenda (Culture and Information), Mot Sakun (Economy), Chea Sim (Interior), Pen Sovan (Defense), Nu Beng (Health and Social Affairs), and Chan Ven (Education).
Notice the order of the list, Heng Samrin was the leader, the current PM was
just a 26-year-old foreign minister at the time. Most are still working, although Pen Sovan and Chea Sim both died recently.
[quote="Abou-Gor"] ....if Cambodia had seen the benefit of the huge sums of money donated to it as a whole..., and not him and his family and all his cronies..[/quote]
It has benefited hugely, I don't see how anyone can argue that. I understand that some have benefited much more than others. Show me one country where the leaders don't benefit disproportionately.
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There were a few that were trained for the invasion with him - he had most of them killed.[/quote]
Where is your source for that? I've never heard anything about it. There were tens of thousands in the Salvation Front. The bulk of its members were either Khmer communists who had been in Hanoi since 1953, refugees from DK, or defectors from Democratic Kampuchea, most of middle or low rank. Eventually the former DK faction took precedence, but not before it had also taken in many officials from the former Sihanouk/ Lon Nol regimes too. There was no big massacre, some of the Hanoi faction may have found themselves side-lined. Eventually most did probably did ok though.
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Here's the central committee list for the KUFNS/FUNSK:
[quote]Central Committee of FUNSK consists of 15 members, Heng Samrin as Chairman, Chea Sim as vice president, Ros Samay as secretary general. Revolutionary People's Council decreed on January 8, 1979: Heng Samrin (Chairman), Vice Chairman: Pen Sovan. Headed by Heng Samrin, Revolutionary People's Council of Kampuchea includes Hun Sen (Foreign Affairs), Keo Chenda (Culture and Information), Mot Sakun (Economy), Chea Sim (Interior), Pen Sovan (Defense), Nu Beng (Health and Social Affairs), and Chan Ven (Education).[/quote]
Notice the order of the list, Heng Samrin was the leader, the current PM was [i]just[/i] a 26-year-old foreign minister at the time. Most are still working, although Pen Sovan and Chea Sim both died recently.
