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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Georgia Bulldog on July 14, 2009, 09:14:13 AM
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A woman testifies about her torture at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Of course that means it's a chance to bash the US!
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 11:20 AM
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Khmer Rouge Twisted Prisoner's Ankles With Pliers
Source: CBS News
(AP) A woman tortured by the Khmer Rouge testified Wednesday that she has spent most of her life trying to forget the horrors she endured in the 1970s and never spoke of the past, even to her husband and children.
Chin Meth, now 51, told the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal that her ankles and wrists still bear scars where she was bound for beatings _ attacks that sometimes lasted until she passed out. Her testimony is the first by a female survivor.
"They beat me with a wooden stick. They twisted my ankles with pliers," she said, speaking softly and staring straight ahead. "While they tortured me, they tied my hands behind my back and beat me very seriously. It was terrifying."
Her testimony came at the trial of Kaing Guek Eav _ better known as Duch _ who headed the regime's notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh. Up to 16,000 people were tortured under his command and later taken away to be killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. Only a handful survived.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/13/ap/asia/main5...
Please read the entire article.
Thank you.
winyanstaz Donating Member (603 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 12:06 PM
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1. I have to recommend this because I believe we need to face the truth.
We are now no better than the Khmer Rouge now because we torture. Sheesh..have we no shame?
Iowa (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 03:14 PM
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3. Yep...
...and government "leaders" who shield torturers are guilty of crimes against humanity as well. We continue to live under a plutocratic government comprised of politicians with no sense of honor, duty, or conscience. They deserve nothing but our complete contempt. I hope I live to see the day when every last one of them is prosecuted and imprisoned.
winyanstaz Donating Member (603 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 07:01 PM
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5. I have to agree with that as well
Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 07:59 PM
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6. To say that the US has an enviable record would be flat out wrong
But to compare the scale of horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge upon millions of people to the record of the US is to cheapen and neuter the memory of Khmer Rouge horrors.
In other words, to destroy the only thing of value that came from that nightmare: commitment to intercede against and thwart future perpetrators of genocide and mass terror.
Which may be your intent, after all.
formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 12:13 PM
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2. These are some of the people the 'Family' like to emulate.
Then there's Hitler and Stalin......Some role models.
gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-13-09 03:19 PM
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4. A tribunal about the Khmer Rouge?
Doesn't the UN have more important business to attend to, rather than wallowing in some long-ago past actions? We need to move forward, not spend all our time looking at the past. What's done is done. This isn't going to bring anyone back or heal any wounds or anything.
Where are the House Republicans to set things right? Why aren't they storming this tribunal and demanding it be stopped?
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The stupidity of the DUmp is staggering.
Truth is that almost every last DUmmy would happily torture (real torture) any and all of us that disagree with their political view.
They have made that perfectly clear.
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Damn, I better go hide the Killing Fields in my backyard.
Damn the DUmmies never cease to amaze me with their stupidity. :mental:
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Pouring water on someone's face versus THIS. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275341,00.html)
Yeah, that's a fair comparison. Asshats.
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But, but it was THREE, THREE I tell you! We are torturers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*DU mode off*
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If we're as bad as the Khmer Rouge, does that mean I can start killing the useful fools?
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If we're as bad as the Khmer Rouge, does that mean I can start killing the useful fools?
No. However, killing the useful idiots, that's a different matter. :-)
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If we're as bad as the Khmer Rouge, does that mean I can start killing the useful fools?
First you get to work them to near death in the camps. Then you kill them.
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First you get to work them to near death in the camps. Then you kill them.
Naw, they're too worthless to perform any work. They'd just **** everything up!
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I remember that john kerry said that the re-education camps in vietnam and cambodia were not so bad.
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First you get to work them to near death in the camps. Then you kill them.
With their own produce dept. plastic bags their veggies came in.
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Guess what DUmmies? You have boat people blood all over your hands. Khmer Rouge is all your fault.
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Pouring water on someone's face versus THIS. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275341,00.html)
Yeah, that's a fair comparison. Asshats.
we all know they were small government, low tax right wing Khmer Rouge