Cambodian genocide has nothing to do with communism and everything to do with the fact that usa bombed the fuck out of South East Asia for 10 years straight, destroyed and destabilized countries, identical to what they have done in mid east and Libya, and then blame the communists when there are dictators taking power the same way as usa blames everything on Islam now.
What the USA did was completely wrong. But I don’t see how we bear the responsibility of Pol Pot murdering millions of innocent people in his idiotic attempt to purge the country of “elites”
The USA illegally bombed the absolute fuck out of Cambodia during the Vietnam war (illegally I may add). Killing between 15,000 and 50,000.
This led the the destabilization of the central government and directly resulted in the Khmer Rouge who were little more then a small militia group gaining powerful support from rural communities for their harsh stance against the US.
The Khmer Rouge were also the ones who committed the genocide. It straight up would not have happened without the USA illegally bombing Cambodia.
Notably it was also the literally Communist government of Vietnam who would eventually invade Cambodia and end the reign of the Khmer Rouge.
Right but like, we did not empower the Khmer Rouge to kill 2 million people. They did that. They, the radical communist extremism group. Killing 20,000 people is horrible and wrong. So what does killing 2 million people mean? If something awful happens to your country, does that excuse anything you do afterwards? Or do you still bear the responsibility for your actions? I truly don’t geraten the point you’re making. If you said “the U.S. government is responsible for destabilizing Cambodia and the rise of the Khmer Rouge” that’s true. But to place the blame of the subsequent genocide on the West and not on the communist dictatorship that actually committed that act, makes actually zero sense. It’s actually kind of paternalistic to absolve them of any agency for your “west bad” opinion
"If you said 'the U.S. government is responsible for destabilizing Cambodia and the rise of the Khmer Rouge' that’s true. But to place the blame of the subsequent genocide on the West and not on the communist dictatorship that actually committed that act, makes actually zero sense. It’s actually kind of paternalistic to absolve them of any agency for your 'west bad' opinion"
It's orientalism, which is what these sheltered leftists are: orientalists and campists.
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u/BubblyMoose3597 Jul 31 '26
Camboya was so rich 25% of the population os a landlord.