Cambodia : Year Zero, 1978 - Full Version (By John Pilger) John Pilger. Cambodian Genocide - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. How Thatcher helped Pol Pot. The corporate media will eulogise Margaret Thatcher, and criticise those who dare use her death to point out her many terrible crimes.
But among her many crimes that will go unmentioned was the support her government gave in the 1980s to the genocidal Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge. Below is an article by independent journalist John Pilger on the support the West, including Thatcher, gave the Khmer Rouge. It was first published on April 17, 2000 in the New Statesman. Visit www.johnpilger.com for more articles.
See also the archive of Pilger articles on Global Research. On April 17 [2000], it is 25 years since Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. For the managers of western power, no true lessons will be drawn, because no connections will be made to them and to their predecessors, who were Pol Pot’s Faustian partners. “They are using damage caused by B52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda,” the CIA director of operations reported on 2 May 1973. I witnessed this. How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand. On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh.
In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were to die as a consequence. To mark the anniversary, the evil of Pol Pot will be recalled, almost as a ritual act for voyeurs of the politically dark and inexplicable. For the managers of western power, no true lessons will be drawn, because no connections will be made to them and to their predecessors, who were Pol Pot's Faustian partners.
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But among her many crimes that will go unmentioned was the support her government gave in the 1980s to the genocidal Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge. Below is an article by independent journalist John Pilger on the support the West, including Thatcher, gave the Khmer Rouge. It was first published on April 17, 2000 in the New Statesman. Visit www.johnpilger.com for more articles. On April 17 [2000], it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh.
For the managers of western power, no true lessons will be drawn, because no connections will be made to them and to their predecessors, who were Pol Pot's Faustian partners. "They are using damage caused by B52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda," the CIA director of operations reported on 2 May 1973. To this end, the United Nations was abused by the powerful. I witnessed this. How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a Hand. Action Alerts | PMA's newsletter | What's on | Links | How PMA can help youHelp PMA grow | Petition forms | Site map | PMA main page How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a Hand New Statesman (UK) 17 April 2000 John Pilger Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero.
On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Declassified United States government documents leave little doubt that the secret and illegal bombing of then neutral Cambodia by President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger between 1969 and 1973 caused such widespread death and devastation that it was critical in Pol Pot's drive for power. DEATH OF POL POT: THE DIPLOMACY; Pol Pot's End Won't Stop U.S. Pursuit of His Circle. President Clinton indicated tonight that the United States would continue to pursue Khmer Rouge leaders and try them as war criminals, despite the death of Pol Pot.
In a written statement issued in Santiago, Chile, where he is attending a Latin American summit meeting, Mr. Clinton said: ''Although the opportunity to hold Pol Pot accountable for his monstrous crimes appears to have passed, senior Khmer Rouge, who exercised leadership from 1975 to 1979, are still at large and share responsibility for the monstrous human rights abuses committed during this period. Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea.
Pol Pot. Pol Pot (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998),[2][3] born Saloth Sar (Khmer: សាឡុត ស) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge[4] from 1963 until 1997.
From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.[5] As such, he became the leader of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, when his forces captured Phnom Penh. From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He presided over a totalitarian dictatorship[6] that imposed a radical form of agrarian socialism on the country. His government forced urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects. Biography[edit] Early life (1925–61)[edit] Saloth Sar was born on May 19, 1925—the eighth of nine children and the second of three sons to Pen Saloth and Sok Nem.
In 1935, Sar left Prek Sbauv to attend the École Miche, a Catholic school in Phnom Penh. Jimmy Carter. The CIA's Covert Operations: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nicaragua, El Salvador.