ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE The Khmer Rouge Killing Fields

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The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now.
In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen.

http://enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com

http://vimeo.com/9626453

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WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot's right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking testimony never before seen or heard. Having neglected his own family for years, Sambath's work comes at a price. But his is a personal mission. He lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields. Amidst his journey to discover why his family died, we come to understand for the first time the real story of Cambodia's tragedy.

Codirectors Rob Lemkin and Sambath create a watershed account of Cambodian history and a heartfelt quest for closure on one of the world’s darkest episodes.

http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/enemiesofthepeople_sundance2010

NYT Movie Review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/movies/30enemies.html

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The Killing Fields (1984) imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/




A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.

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1980-1986: China and US Support Kymer Rouge 
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=cambodia_662

China and the US sustain the Khmer Rouge with overt and covert aid in an effort to destabilize Cambodia’s Vietnam-backed government. With US backing, China supplies the Khmer Rouge with direct military aid.

Zigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser during the administration of President Carter, will later acknowledge,
“I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot…. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could.”

Between 1979 and 1981, the World Food Program, which was strongly under US influence, provides nearly $12 million in food aid Thailand. Much of this aid makes its way to the Khmer Rouge.

Two American relief aid workers, Linda Mason and Roger Brown, will later recount, “Thailand, the country that hosted the relief operation, and the US government, which funded the bulk of the relief operation, insisted that the Khmer Rouge be fed.”

By the late 1980s, US aid is officially at $5 million. But this is supplemented significantly by secret CIA support to the tune of between $20 and $24 million. In total, perhaps as much as $85 million is ultimately funneled to Pol Pot’s group through various channels.

The US and China are also responsible for the Khmer Rouge retaining its seat at the UN General Assembly. During this period, Khmer Rouge fighters attack “Cambodian villages, seed minefields, kill peasants and make off with their rice and cattle… [—] But they never seriously… [threaten] the Phnom Penh government.” [BLUM, 1995; Z MAGAZINE, 1997; COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY, 1998 ]

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http://www.jonesreport.com/article/02_08/200208_obama_brzezinski.html
Brzezinski also endorsed covert Chinese aid to Cambodia’s Pol Pot,
leader of the Khmer Rouge regime that was responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million in Cambodia
through execution, starvation and forced labor.

Two American relief aid workers, Linda Mason and Roger Brown, will later recount, “Thailand, the country that hosted the relief operation, and the US government, which funded the bulk of the relief operation,
insisted that the Khmer Rouge be fed.”

From Wikipedia:

The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, the 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields

(Note from me): Brzezinski, who has demonstrated a complete lack of empathy, a dedication to 'the ends justify the means' approach to his foreign policy advice (as in Cambodia), showing himself to be a sociopathic personality by his covert support of Pol Pot (let the Chinese take the blame), and utter lack of humanity, made the following statement in a 1993 interview, with regard to American culture:

"Self-indulgent, hedonistic, consumption-oriented society cannot project a moral imperative onto the world … Our moral consciousness has been corrupted by … the equal indifference we assign to all values as if they were competing products on the supermarket shelf." - Z.Brezezinski, 1993

Now that's a sociopath, talking about 'moral imperative' - as if he were not, himself, amoral.

[chris jones]

 Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, a playground for the pyscos.
 I have to wonder if these parasites bathe in the blood of the victims or do they drink it. If not they simply stage the genocide and pat themselves on the back.
 I was in Cambodia in the early 70's, the memorys of the people for the most part, dirt poor but gentle, ya with the exception of Pol Pots pysco suklings.
 At one time in history Cambodia must have been one of the most spirtual centers on the planet earth. There were ancient temples dotting the landscape, hidden by the jungle and overgroth, but there nonethe less. We humans crave spiritual enlightment, then there is that segment that seek to extinguish it.
  Conscience is Gods direct line of communication.
  Did I just go off topic again?

[Satyagraha]

We humans crave spiritual enlightment, then there is that segment that seek to extinguish it.
  Conscience is Gods direct line of communication.
  Did I just go off topic again?

No - in fact you have pointed out something very true - we seek spiritual enlightenment in this life; a sense of purpose and understanding. And we will never find it as long as the sociopaths among us are allowed to destroy the best of us; the gentle hard-working native peoples of this planet who happen to be in the way of their chess moves on the grand chessboard - people like Brzezinski, who manipulate puppets in the game, have no concern for any of the higher goals in life. Power is the only 'spiritual' goal they seek.

[chris jones]

No - in fact you have pointed out something very true - we seek spiritual enlightenment in this life; a sense of purpose and understanding. And we will never find it as long as the sociopaths among us are allowed to destroy the best of us; the gentle hard-working native peoples of this planet who happen to be in the way of their chess moves on the grand chessboard - people like Brzezinski, who manipulate puppets in the game, have no concern for any of the higher goals in life. Power is the only 'spiritual' goal they seek.

Morning Pilikia.
 We realize that the powermongers, would be Gods over mankind are determined to controll and enslave us ,after of course the population is decreased.
  But does it go deeper than that. Most of my life I have felt the presence inside me of a force, a line that can not be crossed, the essence of my being. My conscience defines that which it is, that wispering voice and I am convinced it is a direct line to God. I have to call it my soul. In those most desperate times when personell decisons were called for in grevity my conscience gained volume. In those times I didn't follow it, I have paid dearly.
  Sorry to rant, I'll get there, the bottom line, we know the demigods want us bodily and mentaly, and what of our souls, that essence , is that too on their list of goodys. If so, this is not just a physical domination they seek , it is our very souls, is the war that  is raging spiritual also?
That the one clear and divine aspect of our humanity is  being attacked?

[Satyagraha]

Chris - We see that war is being waged against the major religions of the world. Topping the hit list at the moment is Islam. But we also see that Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists - all religious beliefs are targeted, co-opted, manipulated and purchased by those who seek to guide the herd with religion. Killing the religion in the process, like a parasite who drains and kills its victim. They have succeeded in many ways, but what you described is the reason they will ultimately fail.

That voice in your head: you describe it as a direct line to God - is your direct connection ... and you don't need any pastors, ministers, gurus, imams, rabbis or priests to embrace that connection.  It seems like a good solution in a world where the organized religious groups have become corrupted. It's the strongest and most resilient connection of all - you carry it with you, you don't need an intercessor to be the conduit, you are your own link!

I think sometimes about the people who engineer all of the misery in the world - these people who seek their idea of 'utopia' by spilling the blood of millions of other people - and how life without a moral compass must be?  You describe a voice in your head guiding you - a connection to God. I think of it as a moral compass for how to live in the world.  But without it, the elite control freaks have no ability to feel compassion or love for others. They simply don't understand it. It is like someone who was born without sight trying to understand a rainbow. They don't 'miss' the rainbow - they really don't understand the feeling of seeing it.. they can only get some kind of intellectual understanding of it, no emotional awareness.  This is how they view "Love" and "Compassion" - as intellectual exercises, no actual emotional identification with the feelings.  It explains why we find Zbigneiw Brzezinski actually bragging about putting mass murderer Pol Pot into power. It explains why David Rockefeller can describe Mao's murder of tens of millions of Chinese as a 'successful experiment'.  Or a company like Siemens, former Nazi sympathizers in WWII, in later years trying to get a patent on the name "Zykon" for a line of cooking ovens! Sociopathic corporations shaped by sociopath leaders.

The point is, that these people, sociopaths, don't have the capacity to feel empathy, love, compassion or the joy of living.  Instead, they have only an empty, hungry, cold and calculating void in the place where others have a soul. And this is the thing - they can buy anything they want; they can control millions of people, but they can never acquire, by money or force, something that is second nature to all of us; they will never have the capacity for love, they will never feel the joy of living, they will never have a connection to God, they will never be free of their hunger.

[chris jones]

Chris - We see that war is being waged against the major religions of the world. Topping the hit list at the moment is Islam. But we also see that Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists - all religious beliefs are targeted, co-opted, manipulated and purchased by those who seek to guide the herd with religion. Killing the religion in the process, like a parasite who drains and kills its victim. They have succeeded in many ways, but what you described is the reason they will ultimately fail.

That voice in your head: you describe it as a direct line to God - is your direct connection ... and you don't need any pastors, ministers, gurus, imams, rabbis or priests to embrace that connection.  It seems like a good solution in a world where the organized religious groups have become corrupted. It's the strongest and most resilient connection of all - you carry it with you, you don't need an intercessor to be the conduit, you are your own link!

I think sometimes about the people who engineer all of the misery in the world - these people who seek their idea of 'utopia' by spilling the blood of millions of other people - and how life without a moral compass must be?  You describe a voice in your head guiding you - a connection to God. I think of it as a moral compass for how to live in the world.  But without it, the elite control freaks have no ability to feel compassion or love for others. They simply don't understand it. It is like someone who was born without sight trying to understand a rainbow. They don't 'miss' the rainbow - they really don't understand the feeling of seeing it.. they can only get some kind of intellectual understanding of it, no emotional awareness.  This is how they view "Love" and "Compassion" - as intellectual exercises, no actual emotional identification with the feelings.  It explains why we find Zbigneiw Brzezinski actually bragging about putting mass murderer Pol Pot into power. It explains why David Rockefeller can describe Mao's murder of tens of millions of Chinese as a 'successful experiment'.  Or a company like Siemens, former Nazi sympathizers in WWII, in later years trying to get a patent on the name "Zykon" for a line of cooking ovens! Sociopathic corporations shaped by sociopath leaders.

The point is, that these people, sociopaths, don't have the capacity to feel empathy, love, compassion or the joy of living.  Instead, they have only an empty, hungry, cold and calculating void in the place where others have a soul. And this is the thing - they can buy anything they want; they can control millions of people, but they can never acquire, by money or force, something that is second nature to all of us; they will never have the capacity for love, they will never feel the joy of living, they will never have a connection to God, they will never be free of their hunger.

Pilikia. Very , very nice, you have sumed it up, excellant , I am saving this!!!!!!!! BUMPED +1000