juansweetpotato wrote:

qinjingyou wrote:I was an interpreter in a refugee camp when word came through that the KR were accepting returnees. There was a family there that had been there for awhile, because it was a bit difficult to find a sponsor for them. The father was a farmer, uneducated and middle-aged, so didn't have good employment opportunities, the oldest child was about 14, a girl who became the contact because her parents were mostly overwhelmed. There were a lot of kids, too. The family had something like 12 or 14 people in all. Sponsors were cautious because they'd have to accept responsibility for a large family with no prospective wage earners.

So Dad decided to go back.
Each of the interpreters, the Area Coordinator, and some of the NGO representatives talked to him personally, trying to get him to change his mind. One of the NGOs found a farmer who would take Dad as a farm hand.
No deal, he wanted to go home.
In a fit of desperation, the interpreters and Area Coordinator worked out with one of the NGOs to accept the oldest girl and two or three siblings as a family of their own.
Nope, Dad was taking the family home.
The day the bus picked them up the interpreters went off duty and got seriously drunk.

For some reason, after all this time that girl haunts me.

Good story. Where was that refugee camp?

Through out history Khmer's have always said 'come and join the party' then they slaughtered the lot.
Olympic Stadium should really be another S-21 museum.

juansweetpotato wrote:

TheGrinchSR wrote:

phuketrichard wrote:nobody did,
same with Rwanda

The horror it all is that it's worse in North Korea and we fucking know thanks to a UN report which labelled North Korea both a genocide and a holocaust... and thanks to money, no-one will do a thing about it.

Corrected that for ya.

Rutiger wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote:

TheGrinchSR wrote:

phuketrichard wrote:nobody did,
same with Rwanda

The horror it all is that it's worse in North Korea and we fucking know thanks to a UN report which labelled North Korea both a genocide and a holocaust... and thanks to money, no-one will do a thing about it.

Corrected that for ya.

I must admit i don't get a single thing posted by phuketrichard. His perspective seems so far off as to be unintelligible.

What money? Do you think other governments are secretly profiting from the crazy North Korea cash train so they don't want to give it up? What money do you refer too? China doesn't want a prosperous, US ally like South Korea up against it's borders. Makes sense. They perceive the US to be their #1 threat. Therefore, China is using N. Korea as a buffer zone, nothing more...the same way Putin wants Eastern Ukraine as a buffer from NATO countries. Why China has allowed a murderous, whackjob dictator to have nukes and ballistic missiles at their doorstep is beyond me. It's not like China is gaining huge advantage from slave labor over the border.

The US does nothing about N. Korea for fear of full on war with China (and maybe Russia too), which is a certainty if the US were to take military action there, plus the probable destruction of S. Korea in the process. It doesn't help that the US is war weary and over their heads in debt either, but that's not the motive for their inaction. The United Nations is a complete joke that has no teeth or balls to fight anyone anywhere so they are not an option.

China, the US and Russia should have made a pact to invade N. Korea as a joint operation decades ago. It's too late now that they have the bomb.

juansweetpotato wrote:If China decided to put economic sanctions on the US and stop the flow of cash what do you think would happen? It's coming, just not yet.

Rutiger wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote:If China decided to put economic sanctions on the US and stop the flow of cash what do you think would happen? It's coming, just not yet.

China imposing economic sanctions on the US? ::shudder to think:: What? China would lose trillions in trade. The trade imbalance between the two countries is 1000000% in China's favor as things are. The US would be cut off from cheap Chinese made crap and other countries like Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand would be the beneficiaries of a huge boost in trade with the US that used to go to China. Some manufacturing jobs might actually return to the US as a result and more money would stay at home. China would lose hundreds of millions of manufacturing jobs with no one else able to buy enough of their products. What are you smoking? Come on China, impose your best economic sanctions upon the US. Please!

John Bingham wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote: Olympic Stadium should really be another S-21 museum.

Why? It has been used as a sports facility and parade ground for a long time. There were some executions there in 1975 but that's hardly unusual for that time.

juansweetpotato wrote:

John Bingham wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote: Olympic Stadium should really be another S-21 museum.

Why? It has been used as a sports facility and parade ground for a long time. There were some executions there in 1975 but that's hardly unusual for that time.

I knew you would pick up on that. it should have been another war crimes museum. Some executions? That's where they invited the old leaders to come and have a party then led them down a corridor. By the time they saw the bloody room at the end, it was too late.

SinnSisamouth wrote:i dont evar want to go to the genocide museum

i had a dream about it the day before i agreed to go with a khmer friend

she was relived as she did not want to go either

we got drunk instead