Lessons (not learnt) from the killing fields
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:01 pm
This article by Alex Hinton explains what we could have and should have learnt from the Khmer Rouge era. It is dated 2005, but still applies today IMO.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0414/p09s02-coop.html...Now, 30 years after the Khmer Rouge came to power in a time of war and terror, we - who also live in a time of war and terror - would do well to consider what lessons can be learned from the Cambodian genocide. I offer four suggestions in the spirit of George Santayana's oft-cited words "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."...