Kuroneko wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote:

John Bingham wrote:

phuketrichard wrote:
NO ONE over 50 is Innocent

So anybody who was above the age of 14 in 1979 has blood on their hands? Is that supposed to be a joke or something?

The American and British governments at the time certainly do. I don't think we will ever hear them apologize for it though.

how much involvement did the british military actually have during the end of the vietnam war/KR era?
genuine question as i thought it was mainly the US/CIA, i might have to do some more googling

Here's a start: How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand

Until 1989, the British role in Cambodia remained secret. The first reports appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, written by Simon O'Dwyer-Russell, a diplomatic and defence correspondent with close professional and family contacts with the SAS. He revealed that the SAS was training the Pol Pot-led force. Soon afterwards, Jane's Defence Weekly reported that the British training for the "non-communist" members of the "coalition" had been going on "at secret bases in Thailand for more than four years". The instructors were from the SAS, "all serving military personnel, all veterans of the Falklands conflict, led by a captain".

The Cambodian training became an exclusively British operation after the "Irangate" arms-for-hostages scandal broke in Washington in 1986. "If Congress had found out that Americans were mixed up in clandestine training in Indo-China, let alone with Pol Pot," a Ministry of Defence source told O'Dwyer-Russell, "the balloon would have gone right up. It was one of those classic Thatcher-Reagan arrangements." Moreover, Margaret Thatcher had let slip, to the consternation of the Foreign Office, that "the more reasonable ones in the Khmer Rouge will have to play some part in a future government". In 1991, I interviewed a member of "R" (reserve) Squadron of the SAS, who had served on the border. "We trained the KR in a lot of technical stuff - a lot about mines," he said. "We used mines that came originally from Royal Ordnance in Britain, which we got by way of Egypt with marking changed . . . We even gave them psychological training. At first, they wanted to go into the villages and just chop people up. We told them how to go easy . . ." http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/po ... l-pot-hand

takeoman wrote:A few more books to ensure you keep your nose to the grindstone.
Chandler:- Facing the Cambodian Past
The Tragedy of Cambodian History
Brother Number One
Cambodia Year Zero
Thion:- Watching Cambodia
Kiernan:- The Pol Pot Regime
How Pol Pot Came To Power
Kiernan&
Boua:- Peasants and Politicians In Kampuchea 1942-1981
Short:- Pol Pot (The History of a Nightmare)
Kamm:- Cambodia
Vickery:- Cambodia A Political Survey
Cambodia 1975-82
Gottesman:- Cambodia After The Khemer Rouge
Etcheson:- The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea
Jackson ed:- 1975-1978

Happy Reading.