Khmer Rouge 'butcher' Ta Mok dies - Democratic Underground

theHandpuppet

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Fri Jul-21-06 06:23 AM
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Khmer Rouge 'butcher' Ta Mok dies

This is one of those times I really wish there were a hell.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5201770.stm

Khmer Rouge 'butcher' Ta Mok dies

Ta Mok, one of the main leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, has died in the capital Phnom Penh.
Nicknamed "The Butcher", he was the regime's military commander and linked to many atrocities of the 1970s.

About 1.7 million people died under the Khmer Rouge, through a combination of starvation, disease and execution.

Ta Mok was expected to be one of the first people tried for genocide and crimes against humanity at UN-backed hearings due to start next year...

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bluestateguy

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Fri Jul-21-06 06:30 AM
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1. He can bunk with Ken Lay in hell

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noonwitch

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Fri Jul-21-06 11:40 AM
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6. I wouldn't put Ken Lay in the same class as this guy

Keny Lay committed white collar crimes that cost a lot of people a lot of money.

This guy helped slaughter millions. Financial suffering is bad, but genocide is just not on the same level.

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gula

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Fri Jul-21-06 05:08 PM
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8. I googled for the present list of murderous head of states

allied to the US. Most of it came back in languages I don't know, (they did mostly look Russina derived) Anybody here can help me please?

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azurnoir

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Fri Jul-21-06 07:19 AM
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2. May he and Pol Pot

return as monkeys at a 3rd world medical research lab or Calcutta beggar children, and may the folks in the MSM who at the request of our government kept the story quiet while it was happening so as not to "upset the American people" be his "room mates"

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Greeby

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Fri Jul-21-06 07:47 AM
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3. Lest we forget

When the Khmer Rouge were driven from Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese. Thacther and Reagan/Bush supported them with arms and training in their war to retake Cambodia. That's right, the regime responsible for one of, if not the worst genocide since the Holocaust, was supported by our governments of that time? Why? Because anyone who fights against Vietnam is our friend :puke:

John Pilger's 1990 documentary, Cambodia: The Betrayal, lays out the evidence:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8001898387464764449&q=John+Pilger

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saigon68

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Fri Jul-21-06 10:19 AM
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4. LIKE SUPPLYING SADDAM TO FIGHT THE AYATOLLAH

LIKE SUPPLYING OSAMA TO FIGHT THE RUSSIANS

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cool user name

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Fri Jul-21-06 10:54 AM
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5. It's amazing too our complicity and culpability in supporting the KR

BTW, John Pilger is fantastic.

He and the likes of Robert Fisk, Amira Haas, and others are true heroes.

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DELUSIONAL

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Fri Jul-21-06 04:36 PM
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7. This is one of Nixon's legacies -- another GOP screw up

The Vietnam war helped to destabilize Cambodia -- US bombing of Cambodia didn't help much either.

The US does bear a large responsibility for this nearly forgotten slaughter of humans.

This is why I don't believe in god -- this guy basically gets away with murder. If there were a god -- he would have had a different end.

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Canuckistanian

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Fri Jul-21-06 05:13 PM
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9. And don't forget Kissinger

He was running virtually all of the foreign policy at the time.

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