Reply #33: Well, if the post-war era is any guide [View All]

[MartinAmbroseForan]

Several million Cambodians and other Southeast Asians lived a few years longer.

"In 1969 the United States carpet-bombed suspected communist base camps in Cambodia, killing thousands of civilians and dragging the country unwillingly into the US-Vietnam conflict. American and South Vietnamese troops invaded the country in 1970 to eradicate Vietnamese communist forces but were unsuccessful; they did manage, however, to push Cambodia's leftist guerillas (the Khmer Rouge) further into the country's interior. Savage fighting soon engulfed the entire country, with Phnom Penh falling to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975."

"During their rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge slaughtered two or three million inhabitants -- over one-fourth of Cambodia's total population! I request that the United Nations investigate the extent of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, and put the leaders on trial for crimes against humanity. Those convicted should then be either executed or sentenced to long prison terms."