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Khmer Rouge Tribunal; Wheres The American Indictments?
Reprinted article from YOxyz.COM, September 16, 2009
It is most unreasonable to expect justice within Cambodia if the main cause and affect go without judgment and mention all the while making a scapegoat of just one of many extermination centers.
The acting international co-prosecutor, William Smith of Australia at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal has formally recommended that five more suspects be investigated for crimes against humanity and other offenses.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has repeatedly spoken out against expanding the list of defendants beyond the one now on trial; Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, and four others in custody. Hun Sen said such action could lead to civil war.
National reconciliation and peace, Prime Minister Hun Sen previously spoke of is a far away concept from the United Nations dominating United States Government and its Police State where 2,000,000 million Americans remain locked up in prisons.
The tribunal, created last year under an agreement reached in 2003 between Cambodia and the United Nations, employs joint teams of Cambodian and international court personnel but mentions nothing of the American B52 Bombing and holds no outside influences to the Cambodia atrocities accountable.
What mister Hun Sen might consider requesting before further actions against local defendants is legal action by the UN to those American Government officials responsible for the infamous illegal American B52 bombing of Cambodia.
How can Cambodia, let alone the rest of the world expect justice when the main perpetrators of the American B52 bombing that helped fuel the Khmer Rouge's growth and the Khmer Rouge atrocities go unprosecuted? After all the B52 bombing was the recruiting tool of the Khmer Rouge.
Bill Clinton upon his visit to Vietnam in 2000; released Air Force Data of all bombing between 1964 through 1975 covering South East Asia. That evidence supports that Cambodia was bombed as early as October 4, 1965 under Lyndon Johnson until August 15, 1973 under Nixon’s American leadership.
The Johnson and Nixon Administration kept the bombings secret from Congress as American B-52s carpet-bombing campaigns drew Cambodia headlong into the Vietnam War. The raids exacted an enormous cost from the Cambodian people that still continues to this day from the US dropped 2,756,941 tons of bombs, herbicides and defoliants, killing anywhere from 2,000,000 civilians over much of Cambodia.
If you wish to see the results of America’s involvement in Cambodia you won’t need to go to some killing fields outside of Phnom Penh, just walk on Phnom Penh streets you will see the results everywhere in its people.
The Criminal architects of Cambodia’s Holocaust (Nixon Staff) will go unpunished while the United Nations diverts attention to their pet scapegoats the Khmer Rouge.
• Cambodia is one of the world's poorest nations, with a per capita GNP (gross national product) of $280 (1999).
• More than a third of Cambodia's people live below the poverty line, and two-thirds of the people have no access to clean drinking water.
• The infant mortality rate in Cambodia is nearly 10 percent.
• Agriculture is made more difficult by the presence of between 4 million and 6 million land mines scattered throughout the countryside, where they still injure or kill many people each month. More than 35,000 Cambodians are amputees as a result of land mine injuries.
• Agent orange has left a lasting legacy in the 100,000’s of thousands of deformed.
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Note: I thought that I was the only voice out here calling for real justice but thankfully I am not. If we all work together to demand justice then we can see change as Mr. Pilger proves is possible. |
Cambodia's Missing Accused
20 Feb 2009 In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger calls on his long experience with Cambodia's struggles in lamenting missing faces in the dock at the UN-backed trial of crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period. Where are Pol Pot's accomplices and collaborators in the West?
At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people walked to the windows and wept. The DJ had played a song by the much-loved Khmer singer, Sin Sisamouth, who had been forced to dig his own grave and to sing the Khmer Rouge anthem before he was beaten to death. I experienced many such reminders in the years following Pol Pot’s fall.
There was another kind of reminder. In the village of Neak Long, a Mekong River town, I walked with a distraught man through a necklace of bomb craters. His entire family of 13 had been blown to pieces by an American B-52. That had happened almost two years before Pol Pot came to power in 1975. It is estimated more than 600,000 Cambodians were slaughtered that way.
The problem with the United Nations-backed trial of the remaining Khmer Rouge leaders, which has just begun in Phnom Penh, is that it is dealing only with the killers of Sin Sisamouth and not with the killers of the family in Neak Long, and not with their collaborators. There were three stages of Cambodia’s holocaust. Pol Pot’s genocide was but one of them, yet only it has a place in the official memory. It is highly unlikely Pot Pot would have come to power had President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, not attacked neutral Cambodia. In 1973, B-52s dropped more bombs on Cambodia’s populated heartland than were dropped on Japan during all of the Second World War: the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. Declassified files reveal that the CIA was in little doubt of the effect. “[The Khmer Rouge] are using damage caused by B52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda,” reported the director of operations on May 2, 1973. “This approach has resulted in the successful recruitment of a number of young men [and] has been effective with refugees.” Prior to the bombing, the Khmer Rouge had been a Maoist cult without a popular base. The bombing delivered a catalyst. What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.
Kissinger will not be in the dock in Phnom Penh. He is advising President Obama on geo-politics. Neither will Margaret Thatcher, nor a number of her comfortably retired senior ministers and officials who, in secretly supporting the Khmer Rouge after the Vietnamese had expelled them, contributed directly to the third stage of Cambodia’s holocaust. In 1979, the US and British governments imposed a devastating embargo on stricken Cambodia because its liberators, Vietnam, had come from the wrong side of the cold war. Few Foreign Office campaigns have been as cynical or as brutal. At the UN, the British demanded that the now defunct Pol Pot regime retain the “right” to represent its victims at the UN and voted with Pol Pot in the agencies of the UN, including the World Health Organization, thereby preventing it from working inside Cambodia.
To disguise this outrage, Britain, the US and China, Pol Pot’s principal backer, invented a “non communist” coalition in exile that was, in fact, dominated by the Khmer Rouge. In Thailand, the CIA and Defence Intelligence Agency formed direct links with the Khmer Rouge. In 1983, the Thatcher government sent the SAS to train the “coalition” in landmine technology – in a country more seeded with mines than anywhere on earth except Afghanistan. “I confirm,” Thatcher wrote to opposition leader Neil Kinnock, “that there is no British government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or co-operating with Khmer Rouge forces or those allied to them.” The lie was breathtaking. On June 25, 1991, the Major government was forced to admit to parliament that the SAS had been secretly training the “coalition”. Unless international justice is a farce, those who sided with Pol Pot’s mass murderers ought to be summoned to the court in Phnom Penh: at the very least their names read into infamy’s register.http://www.johnpilger.com/
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