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IMAGINE the United States supporting the Nazis at the end of World War II. As appalling as the idea might sound, the U.S. government has essentially said that it is ready to supply money and weapons to the Khmer Rouge, a party that murdered over a million Cambodians while in power during the late 1970s, so that they may regain partial control of Cambodia...
...United States and other non-communist countries are overlooking the atrocious acts of genocide committed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. For four years they terrorized the Cambodian population, sent people off to labor camps and let thousands starve to death. The Khmer Rouge intentionally kept food rations low so that Cambodians would be too weak to organize resistance against them. At least 20,000 were arrested and tortured for political crimes. To this day, there are rooms full of skulls lying in anonymous heaps, dug from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge...
...United States would not be sending the money directly to the Khmer Rouge. Officially, we support Prince Nordom Sihanouk, who ruled Cambodia in the '60's and leads the opposition coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge...
...that the Vietnamese troops have pulled out of Cambodia, the opposition is in a position to overthrow the government installed by the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge government, receiving military assistance from China, was overthrown in the Vietnamese invasion...
While the U.S. has done all it can to get Prince Sihanouk to break with the Khmer Rouge, he has remained their ally since they provide the main military forces for the opposition coalition. The Paris negotiations have been adjourned, having reached a stalemate over whether the Khmer Rouge should play a role in the newly organized government. So far, India is the only non-communist country that has taken a strong stance against the Khmer Rouge...