Brief generational history of Cambodia
Brief generational history of Cambodia
From Generational Dynamics.com
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, HE is following exactly the same pattern that many other countries have followed after a tribal or ethnic civil war. After the war ends, the leader of the country, usually from the winning tribe or ethnic group, refuses to give up power, and becomes increasingly violent and authoritarian, using as an excuse that peaceful protests or negative news articles can turn into a new civil war. This excuse provides justification for mass slaughter, rape, torture, mass jailings, mutilations, and so forth. I've described this behavior in Bashar al-Assad in Syria, who has gone to the extent of using Sarin gas and barrel bombs packed with explosives and metal and laced with chlorine gas onto civilian neighborhoods and markets in order to kill as many women and children as possible. Other leaders that I've described exhibiting this type of behavior include Paul Biya in Cameroon, Pierre Nkurunziza in Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and Joseph Kabila in DRC.
Cambodian culture dates back to at least 5000 BC. During the period 500 BC to 500 AD, the Khmer people in Cambodia were strongly influenced by Indian culture, via India traders, bureaucrats and priests. When Khmer became a written language in about 300 AD, Indian characters were adapted for its alphabet. Cambodia adopted some Indian gods, but not the caste system of Hinduism. In the 1200s, there was a mass conversion of Cambodians to Theravada Buddhism, a religion that was also adopted by the neighboring Thais. There were several centuries of wars between the Khmer and the Thais, until the French arrived in the 1860s.
Cambodia became a French protectorate in 1863. Cambodia gained independence from France in 1953, and supported the North Vietnamese against the South Vietnamese and the Americans in America's Vietnam war. It's easy to underestimate the horror of what happened next, since in the vitriolic political atmosphere following the Vietnam war, leftists like Jane Fonda vocally denied it was even going on, saying "I will never criticize a Communist government."
And yet, the Buddhist society of the China-backed Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1975-79, led by Pol Pot, perpetrated one of the three or four top mass genocides of the 20th century, comparable to the huge genocides of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong.
The Buddhist Cambodian "Killing Fields" genocide, 1975-79, killed something like 1.7 to well over 2 million people, out of a population of 8 million. So around 20% of Cambodia's population were killed, making it possibly the worst genocide, on a percentage basis, of the 20th century. By contrast, the Nazi Holocaust killed around 5 million, which was less than 3% of Germany's population. Pol Pot was trying to imitate Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in China, which was a genocide that killed millions of people out of some two billion. Mao Zedong and Pol Pot may be comparable in their genocides. In all cases, these millions of people were the subject of almost unimaginable atrocities, including torture and rape.
By January 1979, the Khmer Rouge had so destroyed Cambodia that the country was too weak to fight off an invasion by Vietnamese forces. At the time, many Cambodians welcomed the Vietnamese invasion, because it freed them from the Khmer Rouge. The war between the Vietnamese and Cambodians was extremely bloody, until the Vietnamese finally withdrew in 1989.
In 1991, prime minister HE signed a peace agreement called the Paris Peace Accords, a document that guaranteed democracy and human rights in Cambodia. However, like other leaders we've described following an ethnic or tribal civil war, HE has become increasingly authoritative and dictatorial, using as an excuse that unlimited violence is justified to avoid returning to the violence of the civil war.
In October of last year, as HE was brutally cracking down in preparation for these new elections, he said the following in a speech:
"Don’t imagine you can hold a meeting like the Paris Peace conference again because the Paris Peace agreement is like a ghost."
He told people to stop "dreaming" and harking back to the ideals of the agreement, because the Khmer Rouge were gone now, and so the agreement was useless "unless the Khmer Rouge returns."
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Honestly that’s the first time I’ve ever seen Jane Fonda mentioned in anything remotely policitical and especially about communism!
I sort of switched off after that.
I sort of switched off after that.
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You've never heard of Hanoi Jane?
Jane Fonda sits on an antiaircraft gun during a 1972 trip to North Vietnam. (Nihon Denpa News/AP)
Jane Fonda sits on an antiaircraft gun during a 1972 trip to North Vietnam. (Nihon Denpa News/AP)
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Isn’t that the norm for entertainers, Bob Hope, Dame Vera Lyn, Judy Garland plus all those coaches on the Coaches Tours.Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:23 pm You've never heard of Hanoi Jane?
Jane Fonda sits on an antiaircraft gun during a 1972 trip to North Vietnam. (Nihon Denpa News/AP)
Just seems odd they would quote her.
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By contrast, the Nazi Holocaust killed around 5 million, which was less than 3% of Germany's population.
Germany must have had a huge population then....
Germany must have had a huge population then....
Re: Brief generational history of Cambodia
Surprised me but maybe he wasn't around during the war. However she did say sorry for the photo.Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:23 pm You've never heard of Hanoi Jane?
Jane Fonda sits on an antiaircraft gun during a 1972 trip to North Vietnam. (Nihon Denpa News/AP)
Jane Fonda says sorry for gun photo during Vietnam War in 1972 before launch of HBO film
Speaking before the launch of an HBO film on her life, the actress said she was still proud of the trip she made to Vietnam to protest against the war. But she added: “I am just so sorry that I was thoughtless enough to sit down on that gun at that time. The message that sends to the guys that were there and their families, it’s just so horrible for me to think about that.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jane ... -5ktr70pxv
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Hanoi Jane
Commie sympathiser
Socialist (as if there's something wrong with that)
Unpatriotic
Cheese-eating surrender monkey
Tree-hugging libtard
Anti-Semite
Putin's lapdog
Anything to avoid taking responsibility for unethical and immoral behaviour, much of which can be included in war crimes categories
Anything to preserve the rule of the banker/MIC 2%, as opposed to the will of the people
Commie sympathiser
Socialist (as if there's something wrong with that)
Unpatriotic
Cheese-eating surrender monkey
Tree-hugging libtard
Anti-Semite
Putin's lapdog
Anything to avoid taking responsibility for unethical and immoral behaviour, much of which can be included in war crimes categories
Anything to preserve the rule of the banker/MIC 2%, as opposed to the will of the people
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I think the author is getting confused with Pol Pot and HE.
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.Quote ] But she added: “I am just so sorry that I was thoughtless enough to sit down on that gun at that time. The message that sends to the guys that were there and their families, it’s just so horrible for me to think about that.”
Strange that,, all these years later, people from all around the world now travel to Vietnam to pose for a photo in front of those very same guns, planes and tanks.
I wonder if they will be sorry for their actions.
Strange that,, all these years later, people from all around the world now travel to Vietnam to pose for a photo in front of those very same guns, planes and tanks.
I wonder if they will be sorry for their actions.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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