Albror wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:19 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:07 pm Sweden had a large faction that supported the Khmer Rouge during their tenure as the worst government in the past century. Nowadays they are all too precious and virtue signaling.

Would say Swedish are the same today just that it has changed a bit who those people who supported Pol pot would support today. They are romantic fanatics that always want to be blind supporters of the "opressed" without looking into what they actually stand for. To believe in the good of any human being. Didnt work back then and still dont work today.

“Friends of Democratic Kampuchea from most countries in Europe as well as the USA and Canada held a conference on Kampuchea in Paris by the end of June and the beginning of July this summer. The conference decided to hold a big, international conference in Stockholm in November in order to support the resistance movement inside Kampuchea. The Stockholm conference will be an important event in the struggle to gain support for the Kampuchean people in their struggle against the Vietnamese occupants. The Kampucheans now fight a bitter struggle for survival as an independent nation.

“We should still uphold the position that the Government of Democratic Kampuchea is the government of Kampuchea. This stems from the fact that it was the government in the United Nations at the time of the invasion. This position stems from a principle of independence and national sovereignty. It is not based on any particularly assessment of the policies carried out by the Government of Democratic Kampuchea before the invasion nor from the type of social system they established in Kampuchea before 1979….

…The main thing for Kampuchea Support Committees to explain is that the source of the problems in Kampuchea today is the Vietnamese occupation…. Support Committees should not take formal positions on the internal situation before 1979 in principle. This goes beyond the basis of unity.”

— International Secretariat(1980) Kampuchea Conference Documents, Stockholm 1979