REMEMBERING THE KILLING FIELDS....

 Felix Abt in Forum Geopolitica remembers Pol Pot and the hideous killing fields in Cambodia in the late 1970's - he calls the Vietnamese intervention 'heroic', and it surely was. This is what is needed to stop the slaughter in Palestine - but it won't happen. The USA and Israel are too strong and the surrounding Arab states too weak and spineless.


'In Cambodia, beauty and intellect became crimes: the beautiful were forced to marry the ugly, the educated to wed the illiterate. Cities, hospitals, and schools were erased. Millions were slaughtered on an industrial scale to forge a Khmer “master race.” This was a 20th-century fascist Holocaust—not in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, but in Asia—largely forgotten outside its borders (Chandler, 1999; Kiernan, 2008).

Vietnam was the lone nation to confront and defeat this nightmare, while the United States, other Western powers, and China either stood by or even defended it. Only Vietnamese resistance ended the horror (Rowley, 2011; Chanda, 1986).

Now, as the 21st century witnesses another Holocaust targeting Palestinians at the hands of a self-styled, God-chosen Jewish “master race,” memories of Cambodia’s nightmare return. The Asian Holocaust—like Europe’s Jewish tragedy—was driven by the same deadly ideology of racial supremacy, yet it received far less attention, leaving its lessons unheeded by the world.



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