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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477419" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Khmer Rouge Atrocities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goddess Ganga’s Mother of Water, <br>the great Mekong River<br>flows through the Kingdom of Cambodia. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The former Kampuchea borders Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. <br>It was once a powerful Buddhist Khmer empire<br>that between the 11th and 14th century ruled <br>most of the Indochinese Peninsula. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On its red background, between two horizontal blue stripes, <br> the Khmer national flag displays a stylized image of Angkor, <br> the magnificent ancient temple complex, <br>a UNESCO World Heritage Site.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The temple ruins are located amid forests and farms <br>at Tonle Sap, the Great Lake.<br>The people of Cambodia take stately pride in Angkor, <br>as a lofty symbol of Khmer nationhood and identity, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the 20th century Cambodia underwent turbulent changes <br>and during the Vietnam War the Americans bombed<br>and invaded the country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the 1970s the Maoist Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge <br>attempted to turn Cambodia into a classless peasant society<br>by forcing the urban population to move from the cities<br>to agricultural communities. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Similarly to Mao, Pot Pol saw farmers as the base of<br>the working class proletariat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dictator persecuted teachers, lawyers, doctors <br>and everyone else with a university education.<br>Also, the anti-colonialist ideology of the Communist regime <br>led to the arrest and torture of those who visited another country, <br>or spoke foreign languages. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Khmer Rouge had classified these people as class enemies. <br>Pot Pol abolished money, closed banks, <br>schools and hospitals and ordered to burn the books. <br>After all Mao, too, believed that the more books you read, <br>the more stupid you become. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Khmer Rouge also tried to extirpate western medicine<br>and substitute it for traditional peasant medicine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Communist revolution in Cambodia <br>led not only to terrible bloodshed and suffering, <br>but also involved some very bizarre specificities. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wearing eyeglasses, for example, became a dangerous thing, <br>because the Khmer Rouge believed <br>that only class-enemy intellectuals wore spectacles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another capital transgression was <br>the absence of calluses on someone’s hands. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again, as the Khmer Rouge saw it, <br>only class enemies had velvety finger skins. <br>Unlike clerks in an office, peasants had rough skin<br>on their hands because they toiled hard <br>on the fields from sunrise to sunset. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tuol Sleng, the Hill of Poisonous Trees, <br>was a high school in Phnom Penh, <br>which the Khmer Rouge turned into a prison of horrors.<br> Here thousands of men and women lost their lives<br> in cruel interrogations and brutal torture. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between 1975 and 1979 the Pot Pol leadership<br> in Tuol Sleng, Choeung Ek and other killing fields<br> committed dreadful atrocities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is estimated that at least one million people, <br>perhaps even two million, died in Cambodia <br>in this period, due to executions, torture, starvation <br>and forced labour induced exhaustion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The population of the country at that time stood at about 7 million.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The genocide perpetrated by the Communist Pot Pol regime<br> also targeted Christians and Buddhists, as well as ethnic minorities, <br> mostly of Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese origin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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