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   From: fred@frewilliams.FFFfca   
      
   Dänk 1010011010 wrote:   
      
   > On Dec 23, 4:58 am, "*Anarcissie*"  wrote:   
   >> What truth is it we can't stand?  But your   
   >> travels don't prove anything.  Pol Pot is   
   >> accused of so many monstrous crimes one   
   >> more or less doesn't make any difference,   
   >> but this one is a bit cute, like the tale in   
   >> _Apocalypse_Now_ about the Viet Cong   
   >> cutting off children's arms if they had been   
   >> inoculated.  By now there could be quite   
   >> a cottage industry in Pol Pot stories   
   >> which would be very popular among   
   >> anti-Communists.   
   >   
   > I merely repeated a story told to me by a Cambodian who survived the   
   > genocide as a child.  I can't prove his story is true, but it sounded   
   > similar enough to other stories told by other Cambodians about how the   
   > Khmer Rouge exterminated everyone with an education - including   
   > children.  This particular story stood out because it sounded   
   > literally Orwellian - straight out of '1984' - which is why I related   
   > it here.   
   >   
   > What's funny is that leftists who would deny the crimes of the   
   > communist Khmer Rouge have no problem believing similar tales about   
   > the fascist Nazi regime.  I have also heard leftists denounce   
   > statistics for deaths under Stalin (20 million) and Mao (40 million),   
   > claiming them to be outright lies intended to slander socialism.   
      
   	They certainly are.  Hitler killed 13 million and no one has ever come   
   close to breaking that record,   
      
   > Pol   
   > Pot's murder of 1.5 million innocent people hardly breaks any records,   
   > except that it constituted a quarter of the entire population of   
   > Cambodia.   
   >   
   	Is that the total number of people who died in Cambodia?  Western   
   propagandists tend to lump all the deaths together and blame them on whoever   
   they don't like at the time.   
      
      
      
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   Fred   
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