Dear kangaroo, Thank you for your agreeing with me, and also for your additional insight.
Pheng Kim Ving On Aug 18, 12:23 pm, kangaroo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
