#Pol Pot

[news4dzhozhar]

He certainly proved the adage "only the good die young" living to 100.

#war criminal #henry kissinger #burn in hell #Vietnam #cambodia #laos #bangladesh #chile #argentina #east timor #khmer rouge #pol pot #war crimes #good riddance #its about time

[beardedmrbean]

Oh no I burned the soufflé again

#communism #socialism #khmer rouge #cambodia #pol pot

[alanshemper]

How many people from the USA know that the big liberal foreign policy issue of 1978 through the early 80s was the unjust invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam to topple the champion of the people, Pol Pot?

After two and a half years in power, the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese on Christmas Day, 1978. In the months and years that followed, the US and China and their allies, notably the Thatcher government, backed Pol Pot in exile in Thailand. He was the enemy of their enemy: Vietnam, whose liberation of Cambodia could never be recognised because it had come from the wrong side of the cold war. For the Americans, now backing Beijing against Moscow, there was also a score to be settled for their humiliation on the rooftops of Saigon.

#pol pot #cambodia #us foreign policy #i wonder how future people will look back on the US liberal foreign policy goals of the early 2020s

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, in just 4 years it is estimated that 1.7 million were killed by dictator Pol Pot (1925-1998)

*  Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

#Cambodia #1975 #1979 #1.7 million #killed #dictator #Pol Pot #1925-1998 #Killing Fields #killing field #Phnom Penh #Cambodian genocide #Cambodian genocide. #Comunist #comunism #Khmer Rouge #Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

[ivovynckier]

"Wise man" Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon illegally expanded the Vietnam War to Cambodia.

The end result of this special military operation? Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge murders 1.5-2 million Cambodians, 25% of the population.

#henry kissinger #kissinger #war criminal #war crimes #richard nixon #nixon #vietnam war #cambodia #khmer rouge #pol pot

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A title in the Arthur children’s book series is facing a potential ban after a conservative activist claimed that it “damaged souls”.

On 12 July, Bruce Friedman, a member of the Clay County School District community in Florida, filed a challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, a 1989 children’s book by Marc Brown about a fictional brown aardvark whose birthday falls on the same day as another party of a different classmate.

At one point in the book, Arthur receives a glass bottle from Francine the monkey as a birthday present. The bottle has the words “Francine’s Spin the Bottle Game” printed on it.

According to the challenge, which The Daily Beast website published, the reason for Friedman’s ban request is to “protect children”.

“IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS ‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ WITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN,” he wrote in all capital letters. “THIS BOOK IS FOUND IN ALL/ALMOST ALL [DISTRICT SCHOOLS]!”

“‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ NOT OKAY FOR K-5 KIDS,” Friedman added, still using all capital letters. In response to a question about what he believes might be the result of a student using the material, he wrote, “DAMAGED SOULS.”

In a statement to The Daily Beast, a district spokesperson, Terri Dennis, said the book was among 45 titles currently “pending oversight committee review”.

Friedman is the Florida chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, a rightwing group that campaigns against critical race theory. The group seeks to “use all forms of media to expose the radical indoctrination in K-12 education, its perpetrators, the resources and methods employed and the resulting harm it inflicts”, according to its website.

In a Facebook post in September 2020, the group compared public schools to “Pol Pot’s Cambodia”, referring to the former leader of Cambodia who perpetrated the mass genocide of over 2 million people.

Last December, Friedman said that he had compiled “a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content [including] porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender,” Popular Information reported.

He told the outlet that he identified the titles by “scouring the internet” for books that have been challenged in other parts of the country.

The Florida Freedom to Read Project has pushed back against Friedman’s challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, saying: “The entire book is about being inclusive of all friends and not only inviting boys or girls (based on your gender) to your birthday party.”

In recent years, Florida’s public education system has become a divisive battleground for Republican lawmakers who have enacted a slew of laws targeting various minority and marginalized communities.

In addition to the “Don’t Say Gay” ban across all school grades and bans of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public universities, Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has banned African American studies from high schools while the state’s Board of Education updated controversial new standards earlier this month to include the claim that some black people benefited from being enslaved.

#us politics #news #Florida #republicans #conservatives #florida department of education #Arthur #Arthur’s Birthday #Marc Brown #Bruce Friedman #book bans #Clay County School District #the daily beast #the guardian #2023 #Terri Dennis #No Left Turn in Education #Cambodia #pol pot #Popular Information #alt right #alt right jihad #Florida Freedom to Read Project #gov. ron desantis #parental rights in education

[blackcat-brazil]

#henry kissinger #rest in piss henry kissinger #augusto pinochet #south america #pol pot #cambodia

[velimirphoenix]

Polshley Grapots

#memes image #memesdaily #best memes #meme humor #meme #funny memes #the coffin of andy and leyley #ashley graves #pol pot

[emperornorton47]

The Russian trolls are about discrediting stuff like this.

#media #donald trump #vladimir lenin #hitler #Mussolini #fidel castro #mao tse tung #pol pot #saddam hussein #Assad #vladimir putin #MAGAt bait

[epilepticsaints]

#pol pot

[workersolidarity]

Watch "How the USA and China backed the Atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge" on YouTube

An interesting look at the history between Kampuchea, Vietnam, and Pol Pot during the Khmer Rouge regime

#pol pot #Kampuchea #khmer rouge #socialist history #communist history #marxism leninism #socialism #communism #socialist politics #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #Youtube

[beardedmrbean]

#pol pot #henry kissinger #kissinger

[falseandrealultravival]

An army that bullies its people is weak: Myanmar, Cambodia, and China (Essay)

Pol Pot

The rogue Myanmar military, which carries out airstrikes on its people, is in turmoil. Three ethnic minorities on the border with China and Myanmar's pro-democracy forces are uprising, and the military is at a standstill. Although it is their fault, I believe a military that exerts power over its people is fragile.

The same can be said about Cambodia, a fellow Southeast Asian country that suffered turmoil in the 1970s. The Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), headed by Pol Pot, forced the Cambodian people into forced labor and committed genocide: small China, small Mao Zedong. The Khmer Rouge fought against Vietnam (Cambodia-Vietnam War: 1978-1989), but it lost momentum against its people and fled into the jungle. It is vulnerable to external forces.

The model for the armed forces of Myanmar and Cambodia was the Chinese military, which bullies the weak Tibetans and Uyghurs. China is strong enough to defeat external powers. Sino-Indian War (1962), they defeated India. However, India lost because its military equipment and systems had not been modernized. At the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), China sent as many as 1 million volunteer soldiers to try to force a draw. they haven't lost. I haven't heard of any other stories about the Chinese army winning.

If you compare Pol Pot and Mao Zedong, they are very similar. They are incompetent as policy managers and less than mediocre as military commanders. China will probably lose if it fights an external force on par with itself. Therefore, China today wants to be looked at as "strong" in many ways externally, but isn't this because they want to avoid going to war? They are weak.

Rei Morishita

自国民をいじめる軍隊は弱い（エッセイ）

自国民に空爆を行うような外道のミャンマー軍が動揺している。中国国境の３つの少数民族と、ミャンマー民主化勢力が蜂起して軍は浮足立っている。自業自得であるが、自国民に力を振るう軍隊は脆いものだと思う。

同じ東南アジアの国で１９７０年代に荒れたカンボジアについても同じことが言える。ポル・ポトを首魁としたカンボジア共産党＝軍（クメールルージュ）は、カンボジア国民に強制労働を強い、大量虐殺を行った。小・中国、小・毛沢東である。このクメールルージュがベトナムと戦い（カンボジアーベトナム戦争：１９７８－１９８９）、自国民に対しての勢いはどこへ行ったか、クメールルージュはジャングルの中を逃げ回った。外部勢力にはからきし弱い。

ミャンマーやカンボジアの軍隊のモデルになったのが、弱いチベットやウイグルをいじめる中国軍である。中国は、外部勢力に勝つほどには強い。インドとの戦争（Sino-Indian War:

１９６２）で、インドに勝った。ただしインドはその当時、軍の装備、制度が近代化されておらず、負けたのだ。朝鮮戦争（１９５０－１９５３）の終盤、中国は１００万人にも及ぶ義勇兵を派遣し、引き分けに持ち込んだ。負けてはいない。他には、中国軍が勝った話は聞かない。

思うに、ポル・ポトと毛沢東を比べると、両者は非常に似ている。政策運営者として無能で、軍指揮者としても凡庸以下である。たぶん、中国も、自分と同等の外部勢力と戦ったら敗北するだろう。だから今の中国はいろいろな意味で対外的に「強面」であるが、現実に戦争することを避けたいからではないか？実質弱いから。

#An army that bullies its people is weak #Myanmar #Cambodia #China #essay #rei morishita #Khmer Rouge #Pol Pot #Mao Zedong #Vietnam #India #Sino-Indian War

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 7 of the 50 book challenge. My survival in the killing fields by Mao Sim. The author survived the killing fields in Cambodia as a 5-10 year old and her mother, older brother and younger sister survived as well. It’s very short but interesting story.

#book 7 #50 book challenge #2024 #my survival in the killing fields #mao sim #history #Cambodia #biography #pol pot #khmer rouge #murder #starvation #book #me

[chilimissy]

A very solemn experience to visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum S21

#khmer rouge #genocidemuseum #cambodia #phnompenh #Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum #pol pot

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Hemos presenciado actos tan terribles en la Rusia soviética y en la Alemania nazi y también en Chile, Camboya o Ruanda, que no podemos sino ser sensibles al horror de estos actos en sí mismos. Sin duda tiene una gran importancia práctica saber qué clase de hombre puede dar las órdenes que dieron Hitler, Stalin, PoI Pot o Pinochet y en qué consiste la maldad personal de la legión de torturadores que practican su execrable trabajo en la actualidad en numerosos países del mundo, aunque sólo sea para saber cómo podríamos llegar a actuar nosotros mismos como ellos. Pero no necesitamos saber nada de todo eso para calificar las cosas que se hicieron y que todavía se siguen haciendo como absolutamente malas. Llegados a este punto, la insistencia de Nietzsche en una evaluación individualista parece algo simplemente absurdo, como exigir que penetremos hasta el fondo de la psicología de un Mengele o un Eichmann antes de poder evaluar sus acciones.»

Philippa Foot: Bondad natural. Ediciones Paidós, pág. 201. Barcelona, 2002.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

#philippa foot #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #bondad natural #rusia soviética #unión soviética #alemania nazi #chile #camboya #hitler #stalin #pol pot #pinochet #mengele #eichmann #psicología #evaluación invidividualista #ética #moral #ética normativa #ética de las virtudes #filosofía moral #filosofía británica #maldad #maldad personal #acción #acciones #torturadores #teo gómez otero