> Hey kangaroo, > > How is the little guy in your pouch?? D'ohh!! > > The sentiment of the Khmer Rouge regime wasn't to promote pure > Cambodians (I believe you mean pure Khmers). The sentiment was of > hatred, and of murdering anyone they hated. They hated everyone who > were against them, they hated everyone whom they perceived as being > against them or even potentially against them, and, all in all, they > simply hated everyone who wasn't living under their authority in their > captured territory before 17 Apr 1975. Proof: The pure Khmers were > also among the Cambodian people they mass-murdered. > > They promoted (and appointed) poor uneducated (and even illiterate) > peasants to (high) official rankings not because those peasants were > pure Khmers, but because they would be easy to command to massacre > their own people. > > Pheng >
You are right. The Khmer Rouge regime was about hate. We knew it from the very beginning. Remember their music lerics? It clearly shows about what they had sacraficed for their causes. They also weretalking about the strugglings of the poor peasants under the suppression of the rich etc.... Do you remember all of those things? I am not saying that they were right or wrong there.However, we must bring those things for discussion. My point is about the struggling of those poor peasants who passed on their poverty from one generation to another. Did they say it right? I do agree with it because poor peasants were not equal to other people. The rich and powerful looket them like dirt within their own society. That was why they played a major role in the Khmer Rouge regime because the regime itself promoted them to be the superior race. Ofcourse they killed. Now, we cannot say that Khmer Rouge did the right things for those people. Obviously they did not. They used the opportunity to promote them because the regime did not have to worry about retaliation. They were loyal people. They could tell them to kill, starve for the sake of Cambodian Communist Party. Many of those peasants now have realized the mistakes that they had taken. They now join the main in economic capitalism. They have abolished the anger against the rich and the powerful. Actually, many of those people today are in the the leading role of the Cambodian society. Today, many Cambodians around the world are crying against those people because they were not part of the elite society before the Khmer Rouge era. This is a pure discrimination. I keep bringing Sam Rainsy into this pictures because he is a prime example of this elite group. They want Cambodia to go back in the stone age of Sihanouk or Lon Nol. They are not saying it. But they show it clearly that they want everything that way by using democracy movement in front of them. They want to to continue the suppression that Cambodians had for a very long time. They still want the classifications on their own society. There is no equality. My friend, USA is so good because everyone are equal to take advantage of their own opportunities. They are free to advance themselves. We don't see rich people above the laws. We don't see poor people trapped in poverty because they don't have opportunity. I know many of you would bring this subject for discussion. We can do it to enlighten what a great society is all about. -- 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
