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To: Grainne who wrote (94886)	1/26/2005 4:24:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Pol Pot, an enemy of the Soviet Union, also gained support from Thailand and the US. In particular, the US and the PRC vetoed the allocation of Cambodia's United Nations General Assembly seat to a representative of Heng Samrin's government. The US directly and indirectly supported Pol Pot, including for example funneling aid raised for Cambodian relief to the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot espoused a radically revised variant of Maoism adapted to Khmer nationalism. Envisaging a perfectly egalitarian agrarianism, the Khmer Rouge favored a completely agrarian society to the point that all modern technological contrivances were banned. An autonomist, Pol Pot was quite the opponent of Soviet orthodoxy. Because he was anti-Soviet, the United States, Thailand and People's Republic of China considered him preferable to the pro-Vietnamese government. [edit] Aftermath Pol PotAt times, the United States directly and indirectly supported Pol Pot and his hostility against the Soviet Union. The US attempted to foster an anti-Vietnamese alliance between Pol Pot, Sihanouk and the nationalist, Son San. In pursuit of this end, Pol Pot officially resigned in 1985, but continued as de facto CPK leader and dominant force within the alliance. Opponents of the CPK claimed that the CPK were sometimes acting in an inhumane manner in areas controlled by the alliance. In 1989, Vietnam withdrew from Cambodia. Pol Pot refused to cooperate with the peace process, and kept fighting the new coalition government. The Khmer Rouge kept the government forces at bay until 1996, when the demoralised troops started deserting. Several important Khmer Rouge leaders also defected. Pol Pot ordered the execution of his life-long right hand Son Sen and 11 of his family on June 10, 1997 for wanting to make a settlement with the government (the news did not reach outside of Cambodia for three days). Pol Pot then fled his northern stronghold but was later arrested by Khmer Rouge military chief Ta Mok, and was sentenced to lifelong house arrest. In April of 1998, Ta Mok fled into the forest following a new government attack, and took Pol Pot with him. A few days later, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot died, reportedly of a heart attack. en.wikipedia.org

To: Grainne who wrote (94886)	1/26/2005 4:54:34 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Message 20987954 You continue to evade my original point, which was that all this has nothing to do with what our policy should be today (or should have been for the last several years) toward Saddam Hussein.

To: Grainne who wrote (94886)	1/26/2005 5:03:37 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 108807

That post demonstrates just how slic you can be.

To: Grainne who wrote (94886)	1/27/2005 9:56:17 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<< Reagan admmistration was furious Then land and to ensure that Khmer Rouge bases wIthout adequately explaining why, Winer were fed. CVorkmg through “Task Force repudiated the statistics, while not disput- 80” of the Thai .km~; which had liaison ofing that they had come from the CRS. In ficers with the Khmer Rouge, the Amena second letter ro Noam Chomsky, how- cans ensured a constant flow of UN supofficer of a crandestine Special Forces goup >> I find it amusing how most of your sources, the ones you believe fervently, are either illiterate or unintelligible. I'll stick with logic and facts thank you.