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To: one_less who wrote (241638)	9/12/2007 1:42:43 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>" Milions of people, including 1/3 of the Cambodian population have been brutally slaughtered. Re-education (Almost certain death): People were often encouraged to confess to Angkar their "pre-revolutionary lifestyles and crimes" (which usually included some kind of free-market activity, or having had contact with a foreign source, such as a US missionary, or international relief or government agency, or contact with any foreigner or with the outside world at all), The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks. Some victims were required to dig their own graves; their weakness often meant that they were unable to dig very deep. The soldiers who carried out the executions were mostly young men or women from peasant families. "<< This Cambodia place where all this killing happened?...is that the place that Nixon and Kissinger bombed during the Vietnam war when there was none of this mass killing there? And is it the place that after we left Vietnam the Vietnamese, that we were trying to kill, went into to stop the killing? Amazing...