On Aug 18, 4:55 am, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: > Re:http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc/browse_thread/thread/c159a7a28... > > Suorsdey Loork Khoar Chev, > > I have to disagree with you when you say the killings (genocide) > should be blamed on the Viets, Sihanouk, and the Khmer Rouge. I > firmly believe that the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer Rouge alone bear > responsibility for the killings. The reason is, during the genocide, > the Khmer Rouge leadership and the Khmer Rouge leadership alone had > total control over the country. The Khmer Rouge leadership didn't > include Sihanouk. If Vietnam had ordered or encouraged the Khmer Rouge > leadership to commit the genocide against their own people the > Cambodian people, the Khmer Rouge leadership could simply have > disobeyed the order or ignored the encouragement. >
You are obsolutely right on this one. As far as we know, Vietnamese came under under attack also. So if one think that Vietnamese were behind all of the killing, it meant that Vietnamese didn't have enough power to control over what Khmer Rouge had been doing. Or we can simply say that the idea of blaming Vietnamese for what Khmer Rouge had done to their country is just ludicrous. It's simply untrue. On the other hand, we all agree that Sihanouk had nothing to do with the killing at the time. No one has ever raised doubt on that. Unfortunately, we cannot forget that Khmer Rouge could not have gained any power without Norodom Sihanouk participation. It was Sihanouk who got the Vitenamese to train KhmerRouge during the war against Lon Nol regime. It was Sihanouk who called his own people to participate. Both instances have become viable parts of the KhmerRouge victory. And they were orchestrated by Sihanouk Hence Norodom Sihanouk is responsible for the Khmer Rouge victory and it's consequences. > It's important to point out that no Khmer Rouge leader, be it Pol Pot > or Ieng Sary or Khieu Sampahan or even Duch, has ever accused Vietnam > of training or ordering or encouraging them to commit the genocide. > It's interesting to notice that the UN and the international community > have never accused Vietnam of playing a part in the genocide. Even the > US, who was hostile to Vietnam for having invaded Pol Pot's Kampuchea > to destroy his regime, for quite some time after the invasion, has > never accused Vietnam of being involved in the genocide. > You have to understand Cambodian mentality. They hate Vietnamese. So anything happens in Cambodia must be the Vietnamese stuffs. You can see it all over. Even the government in the US had learned that. We all know it is just the hate part of the Cambodian people. It's not what vietnamese has been doing. It means that Cambodians cannot take their own responsibility. Instead they blame on Vietnamese because it is easy to hide their own ugly truth. My friend, Look at the fact. Don't just blame on vietnamese. They may have done alot of wrong things to Cambodia. But they are not responsible for what Cambodians have been doing with their own hands. It's very important that human beings should take their own responsibility for their own acts when it comes to living in a society. Cambodians have not been doing that. They blame Vietnamese for what the killings committed by their own hands in their own country. How worse can it be? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
