John Pilger-Cambodia, The Betrayal part 1-5

What Kissinger and Nixon began [the premeditated destruction of Cambodia], Pol Pot completed. Had the United States and China allowed it, Cambodia's suffering could have stopped when the Vietnamese finally responded to years of Khmer Rouge attacks across their border and liberated the country in January 1979. But almost immediately the United States began secretly backing Pol Pot in exile. Direct contact was made between the Reagan White House and the Khmer Rouge when 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. Cline was then a foreign policy adviser to President-elect Reagan. Within a year some fifty C.l.A. and other intelligence agents were running Washington's secret war against Cambodia from the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok and along the Thai-Cambodian border. The aim was to appease China, the great Soviet foe and Pol Pot's most enduring backer, and to rehabilitate and use the Khmer Rouge to bring pressure on the source of recent U. S. humiliation in the region: the Vietnamese. Cambodia was now America's "last battle of the Vietnam War," as one U.S. official put it, "so that we can achieve a better result."

This "better result" culminated in the murder of 1.7 million people, more than 20% of the country's population. The "better result" of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, according to the Cambodian Genocide Project, "was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. As in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale." Add to this the earlier methodical slaughter of 600,000 Cambodians as a result of a particularly brutal and relentless U.S. bombing campaign. John Pilger again: "Phosphorous and cluster bombs, napalm and dump bombs that left vast craters were dropped on a neutral country of peasant people and straw huts. In one six-month period in 1973, more tons of American bombs were dropped on Cambodia than were dropped on Japan during the second world war: the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. The regime of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger did this, secretly and illegally."

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[gatorn]

You people are such an expert on Cambodia and that is your fatal. Everything you said are true and more. But you fail the grasp the concept of war and it manifestations. See the middle east debacle for example. Iran is accused of meddling. See the pattern? The same else where. Stop being an expert and accurator. Look for pattern! The real perpetrator is still terrorizing the world today!

[CrowbarUpsideTheHead]

Thanks for these videos mate. Pretty grim viewing, but how can we avoid repeating history's mistakes unless we learn about them in the first place?

[gatorn]

No problem. Well, there are million of exploded ordinances and landminds littered the country that poses a major obstacle to Cambodia progress. Guess who provided those time bomb! That's a sad world we are living in.

[badattitude77769]

Remember how henry kissinger , 666, that is what a christian minister said, diverted three fucking thousand bombers to cambodia, and only the pilots knew where they were going? Remember how Cynthia McKinney st ood up before Congress displaying fake yellow food packets and fake cluster bomb? They were Yellow in color, just something a child would pick up, Skull and Bones, Carly le Group profits from the kiling and maiming of children, just ask Rumsfeld and Frank Carlucci, mafia scumbags.

[badattitude77769]

destroying the millions of chidrens lives in iraq alone, they are dead, maimed, no home, kiss my ass you psychopathic bastards.

[wonnthree]

hey how about all the child slavery in the sex trade in cambodia? yea! poor cambodia..get the F**k outta here!

[llHyRaXll]

american politicians and its supporters should be in prison for life.. america ows cambodiam people 50 billion dolalrs to rebuild the country and compensate the peopel for americans crimes..bombing and killing innoscents,..and paving the way for the khmer rouge....and not even deciding to stop the khmer rouge when they new genocide was happening

[MultiJacob17]

@gatorn let me guess...its Satan,right?

[khrystean]

@thetenia i think the commentary on the video means something contrary to your misconstruing of the sentence; the sentence begins with a counterfactual "HAD the United States...", The counterfactual "had" modifies the possible situation that the country WOULD HAVE BEEN liberated as soon as January 1979. You'll see that it continues, "But almost immediately..." So the sentence is not actually claiming Vietnam liberated Cambodia.

[yonisfarah]

Justice lies in God. Trust God things will be better. Brothers are all waking up and fighting back in Iraq, Afganistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Chechnia and many other countries. No one can stop God's will. None of you understand these folks because you are all used to their lies....Democracy...There is no such thing as Democracy, Human rights and freedom of speech. Its all there for them to control the masses.

[bapyou]

First the US bombed the hell out of Canbodia, resulting in a complete destabilization of life there and engendering the rise of Pol Pot. Then, after the Vietnam War, even though the world knew about Pol Pot's atrocities, the US gave aid to Pol Pot. Why? Becasue Pot was fighting Vietnam. American foreign policy has absolutely nothing to do with morality.

[SuperOmnicron]

@gatorn ....yes the real pepetrator, Corporation bank launderers and drug sales laundered through Wall Street...thats right the real perpetrators. Wealth is the unifying factor. And that Golden Triangle continues to roll...

[willwak]

Mr.gatorn mentions patterns in war and I have detected some myself. Wealth is a unifying factor in war....either the getting of it or the keeping of it. Wealth in terms of a nation's resources or in terms of the cheap labour of its population or even its strategic location vis-a-vis controlling movements of resources. But it is always about wealth.

Americans don't go to war for 'liberty' or 'freedom' or 'democracy'. American regimes merely tell that to their people in order that they accept it

[BudzillR]

@badattitude77769 i understand where your coming from..im searching for the truth too, And as you get deeper into it, you realize its is far more sinister, far more greeding, far more ruthless.. They will pay for all the bloodshed over the last century, so call global depopulation.

[centurion180ad]

Read the first sentence, again please.

Do not mistake a misguided national policy for renewed slaughter. The purpose has already been articulated by Albert Pike.

There is going to be premediated mass murder, for the purpose of enslavement & plunder.