Cambodia News: Pol Pot

'For he's a jolly evil fellow' – Zimbabwe Vigil - Nehanda Radio

'For he's a jolly evil fellow' – Zimbabwe Vigil
Nehanda Radio
No doubt the Guardian also applauded Stalin's gulags, Mao's cultural revolution and Pol Pot's skull harvesting. The Guardian – described by a columnist in the British Sunday Times as 'a small circulation north London newspaper' – would have been less ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 12:19 pm

Director screens film on gambling addiction in Cambodian community - Daily Titan - The Daily Titan

The Daily Titan

Director screens film on gambling addiction in Cambodian community - Daily Titan
The Daily Titan
So was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1981 after her parents fled from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. She and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 3 years old. She later went on to earn her M.F.A. in film production ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 14 May 2013 | 9:08 am

Famine mortality - The Economist (blog)

Famine mortality
The Economist (blog)
... a Weapon of War, much like Genocide, Rape and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Famine is how a sociopathic leader 'punishes' his own people and forces them to behave: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mugabe, Qaadafi, The Ayatollah, Castro, and the Kim Dynasty.

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 13 May 2013 | 5:17 pm

Former Red Guard leader calls for Mao's portrait to be removed from Tiananmen - Shanghaiist

Former Red Guard leader calls for Mao's portrait to be removed from Tiananmen
Shanghaiist
Mao is a great god, who deserves our eternal worship and respect, just as Pol Pot of Cambodia and Kim Jong Un in North Korea. In fact, the photograph should be greatly enlarged, far larger than life, for all who see it to instantly fall on their knees ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 13 May 2013 | 8:03 am

The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change

Kerry Emanuel registered as a Republican as soon he turned 18, in 1973. The aspiring scientist was turned off by what he saw as the Left’s blind ideology. “I had friends who denied Pol Pot was killing people in Cambodia,” he says. “I reacted very badly to the triumph of ideology over reason.”

Source: Pol Pot - Yahoo! News Search Results | 10 May 2013 | 9:39 am

The irony of how we mark history - Canada.com - Canada.com

The irony of how we mark history - Canada.com
Canada.com
Pol Pot was Joseph Stalin on steroids. He practiced 'social engineering' with a sledge hammer and a meat cleaver. In four devastating years, Pol Pot oversaw the gutting and abandonment of all Cambodian urban centres. Organized religion was abolished, ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 10 May 2013 | 8:58 am

Author Describes Pol Pot's 'Angelic Smile' - The Cambodia Daily (subscription)

Author Describes Pol Pot's 'Angelic Smile'
The Cambodia Daily (subscription)
Much of Pol Pot's ability to get people on his side came from his charm and manner, and this was not lost on the journalists who met him, Britsh author Philip Short told the Khmer Rouge tribunal Thursday on his last day of testimony. On the witness ...

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Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 10 May 2013 | 6:53 am

Pol Pot and Me (and Guns) - Daily Beast

Pol Pot and Me (and Guns)
Daily Beast
Comrad Tomasky, not sense the days of Pot Pol's "Killing Fields" of Asia, has any one socialist done more to enable the advance of World Marxist Domination. I think your efforts also may rival that of Germany's Adolf Hitler in his attempt to ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 8 May 2013 | 5:07 pm

At Tribunal, Historian Describes Vietnam's Relationship to Khmer Rouge - Voa - VOA Khmer

At Tribunal, Historian Describes Vietnam's Relationship to Khmer Rouge - Voa
VOA Khmer
Short, the 68-year-old author of “Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare,” told the court Tuesday that the Vietnamese had an “undeniable” interest in the Khmer Rouge, providing support and training for the communist insurgency in its early days. Photo ...

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 7 May 2013 | 6:21 pm

Where notorious criminals have been buried

Whether it's a genocidal dictator or a gunman behind a mass shooting, debate often flares over where the notorious should be laid to rest. Concerns about gravesite vandalism, possible backlash from the public and some sites becoming shrines often lead to burials cloaked in secrecy. In Massachusetts, controversy is surrounding where to bury Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Source: Pol Pot - Yahoo! News Search Results | 6 May 2013 | 10:29 pm

Where notorious criminals like Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Pol Pot and others ... - Economic Times

Economic Times

Where notorious criminals like Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Pol Pot and others ...
Economic Times
Whether it's a genocidal dictator or a gunman behind a mass shooting, debate often flares over where the notorious should be laid to rest. Concerns about gravesite vandalism, possible backlash from the public and some sites becoming shrines often lead ...

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Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 6 May 2013 | 9:24 pm

K. Rouge cadres have little appetite for landmark trial

It has been hailed as a chance to heal a traumatised nation, but former foot soldiers of the brutal Khmer Rouge say Cambodia's genocide trial is a waste of money that will only re-open old wounds.

Source: Pol Pot - Yahoo! News Search Results | 1 May 2013 | 4:29 am

Time running out for Khmer Rouge tribunals

After death of 'Brother No.3', calls are made to speed up trials of remaining leaders behind Cambodia's killing fields.

Source: Pol Pot - Yahoo! News Search Results | 20 Apr 2013 | 1:56 pm

Who is Crazier: Tracy Morgan, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, or Bradley Cooper ... - Miami New Times (blog)

Miami New Times (blog)

Who is Crazier: Tracy Morgan, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, or Bradley Cooper ...
Miami New Times (blog)
Take our quiz and find out. Each multiple choice includes one of Tracy Morgan's real answers and unrelated answers from a 1981 interview with Charles Manson, a 1979 interview with Pol Pot, and Bradley Cooper's Q&A in this month's Details magazine.

Source: Pol Pot - Google News | 18 Apr 2013 | 5:01 pm

What the law says — and means — on transformation

The quest for a nonracial and nonsexist order in South Africa calls for a transformation of mindset, not a counting of chromosomes and measuring melanin cells, writes Paul Hoffman

Source: Pol Pot - Yahoo! News Search Results | 15 Apr 2013 | 3:48 am

Wednesday's letters: Gun-free zones - Blueridgenow.com

Well, maybe not insane. Maybe it’s well thought out. After all, there are many influential people who have come down on the side of gun control — Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot. Ponder these revealing quotes from the 1788 Virginia ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 1 Aug 2012 | 7:55 am

Redeem Your God: Ramblings of a Child From Syria - Huffington Post

Even more than its Genghis Khans, Hitlers, Pol Pots and Assads. That's because the spiritual leaders represent God, who is more powerful than any leader or tyrant, and who has no boundaries to contend with, national or otherwise. Strong and unified ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 31 Jul 2012 | 5:50 pm

Today’s letters: Are religion and atheism sources of evil? - fullcomment.nationalpost.com

There are presently more people alive on the earth than have died on the earth. People such as Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Pol pot and political enterprises such as European colonialism and North American Colonialism (prior to the Columbian ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 30 Jul 2012 | 9:59 am

Cambodia town with gruesome past lures tourists - Gulf News

Anlong Veng, Cambodia: Want to see Pol Pot’s grave or his broken toilet seat? How about a visit to the house of a feared Khmer Rouge commander known as ‘The Butcher’? Welcome to the town of Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold which hopes to ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 28 Jul 2012 | 8:00 am

Cambodian town with gruesome past lures tourists - YAHOO!

Want to see Pol Pot's grave or his broken toilet seat? How about a visit to the house of a feared Khmer Rouge commander known as "The Butcher"? Welcome to the town of Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold which hopes to become the next must-see ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 27 Jul 2012 | 7:39 am

Generation Next: Reclaiming Cambodia - Santafe New Mexican.com

In 1975, the Southeast Asian country Cambodia collapsed into chaos following a coup by a sociopathic and maniacal leader, Pol Pot. Over a period of four years, Pol Pot and his guerrilla army advanced a totalitarian social and economic agenda ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 25 Jul 2012 | 11:55 pm

The almanac - United Press International

In 1997, captured Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was sentenced to life imprisonment in a trial by his former comrades in Cambodia. In 1999, cyclist Lance Armstrong, having overcome cancer, became the first American on a U.S. team to win the Tour de France.

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 25 Jul 2012 | 7:56 am

Necessary Scapegoats? The Making of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal - nybooks.com

A month later, Duch appeared as a key witness in the court’s second and most important case, the trial of the only remaining members of Pol Pot’s immediate entourage: Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologue; Ieng Sary, the foreign ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 22 Jul 2012 | 11:59 pm

We weren't all bad in the Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's deputy makes his case - The Independent

The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and - or at least he is hoping - The Maldives.

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 21 Jul 2012 | 9:41 am

K. Rouge number 2 was 'CEO of Cambodia': expert - AsiaOne

“Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 86, has repeatedly told judges at his atrocities trial that he was mainly in charge of educating fellow cadres and was less powerful than members of a military committee chaired by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. But giving ...

Source: Pol Pot - Bing News | 18 Jul 2012 | 3:28 pm