Bombing Cambodia - Nixon, Kissinger, and the Khmer Rouge - 1

Journalist John Pilger explains the how the United States bombing of Cambodia contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

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• Pot
• Khmer
• Rouge
• Nixon
• Kissinger
• Vietnam
• Pilger
• bombing
• collateral
• damage
• documentary
• journalism

[UlucReis]

5 stars does this short video earn!

What happened to this British journalist John Pilger? Is he still active, dead or retired? Can we see the 2nd part, seems as if it is missing.

[dharmamarx]

Part 2 is on this site; just search for this: "Bombing Cambodia - Nixon, Kissinger, and the Khmer Rouge - 2". Pilger's still around. I think he has a new film coming out; there was an interview w/ him a few days ago on Democracy Now.

[Malin88888]

He is such a great man, doing many good movies and records for Cambodia. God blesses you, Mr. Journalist John Pilger.

[bensommerMusic]

Something tells me that guy couldn't fire a squirt gun

[goodygumdr0ps]

@irishgeal1

you have absolutely no idea... poor you. For the next year I wish you can have your chromosomes fixed.

And this comes from a left wing person working and living in Vietnam.

[EkajTheSwordsman]

In their 1993 study, modeling “the highest mortality [they] can justify,” Judith Banister and Paige Johnson estimated 275,000 deaths during the 1970-1975 period. Marek Sliwinski carried out a demographic study where he arrives at an estimate of 240,000 war deaths out of which there were 40,000 deaths as a result of American bombings. As Pol Pot’s biographer David Chandler points out, the bombing campaign “had the effect the Americans wanted: it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh."

[irishgeal1]

kissinger was a million times worst than hitler, i can wait to piss on his grave,  someone please post his cemetry when that sick phyco dies.

[v19d]

I wonder why the USA didn't invade Cambodia in 1976 after the Khmer Rouge Seized American Ships.

[shillyshallyz]

For all answers, just copy and

Google

• Nixon backing Khmer Rouge genocide

Have a good day as usual, USA!

[ImATiger4487]

i have heard about this, quite disturbing. business ventures

[ImATiger4487]

from a cambodian standpoint:

the khmer rouges had led their base of operations 'underground', they had acquired their base of operations from defeating government troops with north vietnamese backing starting in 1970-1975 war

. the north vietnamese refused to leave the country in which lon nol ordered them a 2 day ultimatum to withdraw or face hostilities. the khmer rouge did not hand them the country, they lost it in the vietnamese invasion of 1979

china supplied the khmer rouge

[loyaltothefacts]

pop quiz

who provided the khmer rouge with there base of operation

who in 1965 invaded cambodia and violated its neutrality by using it to transport 80% of its military equipment drawing the us in

who refused to leave the country before the us bombing instead waged war against the cambodian army doing more damage then the khmer rebel and then handed most of the country over to them

who supplied the khmer rouge with virtually all there weapons and supplies and most of there training