What sparked the murderous Khymer Rouge movement of Pol Pot in Cambodia?
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The direct American genocide of the Cambodian people lasted from 1969 to 1975. After that the Khmer Rouge, America 's covert clients, took over the job. Estimated civilian deaths: \n 2,000,000 - 2,500,000 people From the U.S. Air Force carpet \n • bombing and the Khmer Rouge combined.  \n Not content with the destruction being wrought upon Southeast Asia, the U.S. began a massive covert bombing campaign against Cambodia , resulting in famine, economic chaos, and a staggeringly high death toll. The desperate conditions created by the bombing set the stage for the Rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, resulting in yet another round of death and destruction for the besieged country. \nCambodian Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret “carpet bombings” of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in 1970. \nThis was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years of American bombing had caused Cambodia 's traditional economy to vanish. The old Cambodia had been destroyed forever. \n Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.
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video?\nwhere do you live cambodia?
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murder\nCAPITAL MURDER
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At the time that it was happening, the world did not know much about the "Killing Fields."  The Khmer Rouge, like communist governments everywhere, clamped down on news going out to the rest of the world.  Therefore, there was not much the US or the rest of the world could have done to stop it.\nPerversely, the Vietnamese government did the right thing when it invaded Cambodia and started the process of throwing the Khmer Rouge into their rightful place in the dustbin of history.
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I found this about Hwa Soeng:\nMohammed Bidduth and Kabir Uddin, leaders of a rally organized by members of the Equality Trade Union-Migrants Branch, were reportedly beaten. The two men were detained in Hwaseong Immigration Processing Centre for 80 days. They were released conditionally and told that they would have to leave the country by 20 January 2003.\n\nThat's from Amnesty International. They might be able to help.\nhttp://web.amnesty.org/contacts/engindex
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The Rwandan Genocide was the massacre of an estimated 800,000  to 1,071,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups during a period of 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994.
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In 1978, after Pol Pot refused offers of negotiation and international supervision, the Vietnamese army invaded and seized Phnom Penh in 1979. Prince Sihanouk, who had been imprisoned in his palace by the Khmer Rouge, again fled to Beijing. The Khmer Rouge was driven into the western countryside, but the Kampuchean People's Republic, led by Pol Pot, was still recognized by the United Nations as the country's legitimate government. Throughout the 1980s various guerrilla factions formed and skirmished with the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge. One such group was a coalition force led by Sihanouk, who was still recognized by many Cambodians as the country's true leader.\n\nIn 1987 talks began in Paris to try to settle the civil war, and in 1989, Vietnam announced plans to withdraw its occupying troops from Cambodia. A peace treaty was signed by all of Cambodia's warring factions (including the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen's Vietnamese-supported government, and Prince Sihanouk's faction) on Oct. 23, 1991. As agreed in the treaty, the United Nations assumed (1992) the government's administrative functions and worked toward democratic elections. However, provisions calling for disarmament of all factions were resisted by the Khmer Rouge, who resumed guerrilla warfare. Sihanouk denounced the Khmer Rouge, aligned himself with Premier Hun Sen, and again became head of state.\n\nCambodia's first-ever democratic elections were held in May, 1993, supervised by a large UN peacekeeping mission. Royalists won the largest bloc of national assembly seats (58 out of 120); Hun Sen's party came in second, and a coalition government with co-premiers—Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen—was formed. The government administration remained populated largely by bureaucrats who had operated under the Hun Sen regime. The Khmer Rouge, who had boycotted the elections, continued armed opposition, retaining control of substantial territory in the N and W parts of the country. A new constitution reestablished the monarchy, and in Sept., 1993, Sihanouk became king. Attempts at mediation with the Khmer Rouge failed, and fighting continued.\n\nIn 1996 the Khmer Rouge split into two factions, one of which made an accord with the government. Pol Pot was ousted and imprisoned by the remaining Khmer Rouge in 1997 and died in 1998; the Khmer Rouge subsequently lost most of its remaining power and support. Following fighting in July, 1997, between the factions of Hun Sen and Prince Ranariddh, Hun Sen's forces declared victory and Ranariddh fled the country; he was replaced as first premier by Ung Huot. Prince Ranariddh returned to Cambodia in Mar., 1998, and became an opposition candidate in the legislative elections held in July. Hun Sen's party (the Cambodian People's party) was the official winner of the disputed election (with 64 seats out of 122), and he became the sole premier. Prince Ranariddh became the president of the national assembly, but Hun Sen further consolidated his control of the country.\n\nCambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1999. Elections in July, 2003, failed to give Hun Sen's Cambodian People's party (CPP) the two-thirds majority needed to govern without a coalition, but the liberal and royalist opposition parties denounced the results, rejected a two-party coalition, formed the Alliance of Democrats, and insisted that the alliance be the cornerstone of a three-party coalition. The deadlock remained unresolved until June, 2004, when Prince Ranariddh's party agreed to a renewed coalition with the CPP. A 186-member cabinet, the seats in which were reportedly sold for large sums in the expectation that they would yield corrupt profits, was formed.\n\nThe king abdicated in Oct., 2004, in favor of his son Norodom Sihamoni, despite the fact that the constitution made no provision for abdication. In Feb., 2005, the national assembly lifted opposition leader Sam Rai
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Let's verify there was a massacre before we make any comparisons. Since Vietnamese villagers were not known for blowing themselves up to kill U.S. personnel and few if any of their women were ever combatants, shooting down civilians in that theater was a lot more difficult to take than anything that happens in a war zone where women and children routinely take up arms, put on disguises and attack both military and civilian targets.\n\nAs for Calley, I don't think Nixon went overboard in granting him clemency. He was being scapegoated.
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Terrorism is usually ideology driven and fueled by poisonous interpretation of religion. How far this crosses the line from internal issues of the ex-soviet bloc or remains independent to soviet mobster intrigue remains a grey area.\n\nMilitary junta and remnants of the Cold War were part alienated by Western democratic states who abed out of respect to the sovereignty of a nation state, in the hope that the machine de party nationale disintegrates or degenerates. Evolution through corporatisation under hands of unscrupulous and unprincipled organisations, has allowed unchecked violence to precipitate beyond the borders of the ex-C.C.C.P. (U.S.S.R.). \n\nAt face value, the methods of the post-cold war communist government places hard currency into hands of disenchanted and poor people that served the polit buro. Rent-a-kill advertisements as recalled in local Russian papers and periodicals(1), whilst not driving these trades underground, serves to validate a flourishing industry and a means to put food on the table. Russian “entrepreneurial Moguls” under the Capitalist pretext, employs methods reminiscent of the removal of the last Tsar and the Bolsheviks, except in a corporatised form and not easily traced back.\n\nIn the very least, the ex-soviet bloc should take responsibility of the fights spilling out of their backyard. This is simply without Honour; the old spies were for mother Russia. Does the new cohort of intelligence have the slightest inkling of word; or it goes to the highest bidder without principles ?\n\nNot so long along, a special investigative unit of the Iraqi police closed down offices of “Al-Mustaqillah” newspaper in July and arrested the newspaper's office manager. According to a press release posted on the Coalition Provisional Authority (http://www.cpa-iraq.org), Al-Mustaqillah published on 13 July executed an inciteful [sic] article entitled “Death to all spies and those who cooperate with the U.S.; killing them is religious duty.”\n\nIn Ian Fleming's novel, Goldfinger is suspected of being the paymaster of Smersh and in instituting “Smiert Spionen”, death to all spies. The Soviet counterintelligence operation in reality assassinated people who fought against communism, openly and covertly.\n\nA knee jerk reaction of the democratic states would be to institute “Death to all ex-Soviet Spies” to curtail what appears to be the whispers of the snake’s offspring. Similarly, another popular call could be envisaged in the form of a moratorium on application of the death penalty should be instituted. Yet these measures do not curb the source of the illness: What is the source ?\n\nA contention is that the social-economics of communism is very much alive. The people need food, heating and jobs, but certainly not at the cost and through validation by mafia’s corporatised military (war between the oligarchs) and what appears to be old methods brought to bear on Putin’s Russia. \n\nThe ugly truth may be that a snake is required to poison a snake. Putin placed some very talented and good men to clean up the banking institutions rife with ill gotten gains, only to be gunned down no less. It ventures that more protection of key players that are pro-society are required, not less. \n\nNeedless to say, the demand for violence must be nipped with multi-tiered approach that allows the average man in Russia to live, mindful that the aegis of communist privileges no longer serves to feed, clothe and house these people. \n\nOne can only ponder the effects of Glasnost and perhaps also Perestroika, if U.S.S.R. had more goodwill, humbleness and humility to accept foreign assistance in their political transition. Even now, may not be too late.\n\nThe papers “Whatever the future holds for British energy supplies, this country must not be a safe haven for international thuggery.”
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Genocide. And the rest of the world turns its back...so God help!
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The world community began calling for the handover of Pol Pot, but in July 1997 the Khmer Rouge staged their own show trial, at which they sentenced Pol Pot to lifetime house arrest. The broadcasted trial gave the world its first glimpse of Pol Pot in nearly two decades—old, frail, and suffering from malaria.\n\nLess than a year later, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot died, reportedly of a heart attack.\n\nLook below to find out what happened to the others
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia
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I believe it was muslum fundamentalists, I was just a kid watching t.v. when they were having a military parade in egypt.Sadat was president at the time as they were parading by, all the sudden a few of the marchers broke off the parade, ran toward sadat firing automatic rifles,killing abunch of officers and sadat.Probably because he was making peace with Israel.
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That is an interesting question....\n\nThe obvious civil war between the communist North and the democratic South. The not so obvious civil war was probably between the Catholics and the Buddhist in South Vietnam. Howver, I think that can be described more as bloody protesting rather than a war.
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"The Mỹ Lai Massacre was a massacre committed by U.S. soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American support at home for the war in Vietnam."\n\n\nGet a good start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
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Not sure if its what your looking for... \n\nLike a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured. \nBy. Philip Short
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Beneath the Massacre.\nNecrophagist.\n\nNumerous others.