Tom's travels: S21 & The Killing Fields, Cambodian Genocide - A mini documentary
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The Reagan White House had links to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Dr. Ray Cline, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., made a clandestine visit to Pol Pot's operational base inside Cambodia in November 1980..
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The USA allowed the Khmer Rouge to use camps in Thailand (John Pilger, 17 April 2000, New Statesman).
The US and the UKs Thatcher government backed Pol Pot in exile in Thailand. Khmer Rouge representatives were allowed to continue occupying Cambodias seat at the UN.
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In 1972, the Vietnamese intervened in Cambodia against Pol Pots group. Washington took immediate steps to preserve the Khmer Rouge as a guerrilla movement, according to Jack Colhoun in Covert Action Quarterly magazine, Summer 1990.
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US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski supported Pol Pot, because Pol Pot was anti-Soviet.
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US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, supported Pol Pot because Pol Pot was anti Soviet. Elizabeth Becker, an expert on Cambodia, wrote, "Brzezinski himself claims that he concocted the idea of persuading Thailand to cooperate fully with China in efforts to rebuild the Khmer Rouge.... Brzezinski said, ' I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help...'"
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Elizabeth Becker, an expert on Cambodia, wrote, "Brzezinski himself claims that he concocted the idea of persuading Thailand to cooperate fully with China in efforts to rebuild the Khmer Rouge.... Brzezinski said, ' I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help...'"
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Yes, everything evil that happens in the world is the work of the U.S. government. Pol Pot was a fucking communist. We were not in the business of helping communists at that time you moron.
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Reportedly, the US government helped Pol Pot.
This is a new version of an older video which was taken down due to a music copyright claim by the morons at Warner Music.
mod83 3 years ago