01-15-2004, 05:34 PM | #21 |
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I didnt know you were Cambodian. What did you think of the film The Killing Fields?
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I haven't seen the film yet. How did you find it? My mother thinks it's relatively accurate, but rather 'tame'. In different areas of Cambodia, some people had it better and some worse. That story is apparently one of the luckier ones. I posted before that the Cambodians were 'transported' to their new 'homes'. Sorry, I didn't mean that. They actually had to walk for days to get there, with not much food or water. Even the sick and elderly (hospitals were emptied) were forced to walk, thus many died along the way. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-16-2004 at 05:13 AM. |
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01-16-2004, 05:21 AM | #23 |
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That is sad. The Western powers should have intervened, staying inactive is like taking part of the crime.
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What is disturbing is that the UN just gave in - but it's pretty typical - hence the UN's 30% approval rating in America. They haven't been above 50% for decades. I don't know enough about the episodes to make a judgment on the situation though. I just find it disturbing that this type of stuff is allowed to go on and on. As I have said in past threads - just because there is no war - does not mean that there is actual peace.
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I posted in an another forum (helsingborgs dagblads www.hd.se) about the atrocities committed by communist dictatorships and I thought that we should go out in the street (empty the houses; gå man ur huse) and protest against this, the reply I got was that Communism wasn't a threat to Sweden and therefore we need not do it.
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I think what Lin was saying is that since Cambodia was cut off from the world while all this was going on, that it was not known until people started filtering out with the stories. I don't know what evidence was left in the wake of all that. There's also time that could be a factor.
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Yes, it's a shame that the UN ("The West") doesn't help these countries out by stepping in. It seems they are impotent to do anything anymore but bicker and jockey for power among the members.
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At least Nato managed to put an end to the assaults on the civilians and the ethnic cleansing which were conducted in Kosovo when the UN stood there powerless. Sometimes the West gets involved. Most of the times it seems as if it doesn't.
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Yes, I Rex, it gets a lot worse. Khmer Rouge members used to
I agree, it is extremely sad that the West does not always intervene in these atrocities. But what disturbs me more is that humans have the capacity to commit such horrendous deeds, often without cause or remorse. We humans are our own worse threat. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-17-2004 at 03:57 AM. |
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