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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
You aren't educated by birth. It's something you chose to have. You don't (often) choose to be a Jew or a Roma. Furthermore, they did not try and kill off intellectuals in other countries.
The widely believed two million deaths mark was a flip comment made by a French journalist in the 1970s, who was in no position to know. It has since come to be accepted as gospel. AFAIK, the only attempt to try and find out how many people died under KR rule was by the CIA, who estimated that about 40,000 were died in the killing fields. The organized killing was actually very small.
Assuming the CIA was wrong, most of the deaths came from starvation. The starvation was caused by people by lowered productivity, which occured when the US bombed the bejeezuz out of Cambodia in the early 1970s and Cambodea went from an grain exporting country to a grain importing one. This led to the instability which enabled the KR to topple Lon Nol (Sihanok having been overthrown by LN). Factor in the complete stupidity of cutting yourself off from the outside world and you have a great recipe for famine.
Not efficient. They determined who was or was not an intellectual by looking at their hands or if they had eye glasses.
Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Cambodia:
1. Complete eradication of certain individuals. (by education)
Cambodia:
1. Complete eradication of certain individuals. (by education)
You aren't educated by birth. It's something you chose to have. You don't (often) choose to be a Jew or a Roma. Furthermore, they did not try and kill off intellectuals in other countries.
2. Organised by the state, eg systematic.
The widely believed two million deaths mark was a flip comment made by a French journalist in the 1970s, who was in no position to know. It has since come to be accepted as gospel. AFAIK, the only attempt to try and find out how many people died under KR rule was by the CIA, who estimated that about 40,000 were died in the killing fields. The organized killing was actually very small.
Assuming the CIA was wrong, most of the deaths came from starvation. The starvation was caused by people by lowered productivity, which occured when the US bombed the bejeezuz out of Cambodia in the early 1970s and Cambodea went from an grain exporting country to a grain importing one. This led to the instability which enabled the KR to topple Lon Nol (Sihanok having been overthrown by LN). Factor in the complete stupidity of cutting yourself off from the outside world and you have a great recipe for famine.
3. Efficient, you still cannot find doctors today of a certain age.
Not efficient. They determined who was or was not an intellectual by looking at their hands or if they had eye glasses.
As for Sianhouk's regime, the reason Lon Nol and a lot of others wanted to overthrow him is that he allowed the NVA to take over the Eastern third of his country. Not only did this directly impact the economy negatively, but it brought about a belated reaction from the Americans and South Vietnamese as well. Sianhouk was also allowing his ports to supply NVA forces directly, from Pnom Pen to the Parrot's Beak area by truck. This was the last straw for the U.S. Sianhouk was a scumbag and it is a shame that he managed to survive so many years after he destroyed his own country by trying to be slick.
) but this does not mean they inclined towards mass murder. Even Daniel Goldhagen, who claims (in his controversial "Ordinary Germans" ) that "exterminationist antisemitism" was part of pre-Nazi German culture, essentially discusses the situation during the 1920's, NOT pre-1914.
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