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Re: There is more to the story (Reply to this comment)
by metalluk
Thanks, Daniel, for your additions. I stopped where I did because I thought I had gone on too long already, but you're right that the disregard for human rights and willingness to subordinate genocide to the manueverings of the superpowers for miniscule advantages continued for another decade or more.
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Jul 27 '05
1:15 pm PDT
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Re: one minor detail, one less minor one, and agreement (Reply to this comment)
by metalluk
Thanks for your thoughts, Stephen. I made a change in the review in response to one of your suggestions, softening the language in relation to American-bolstered governments in the Americas.
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Jul 27 '05
1:08 pm PDT
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There is more to the story (Reply to this comment)
by danielpar
Another fine review of a very important film.
I particularly appreciated your "Historical Background," but why stop in early 1979, with the ascent of the Vietnamese puppet, Hun Sen, as Prime Minister of Cambodia? What followed up would have been most interesting to 99.99% of Americans (but I am certain you are not part of this group) who ignore the fact that the USA then became a strong supporter of Pol Pot and of his assassins.
At the time, the Soviets backed Vietnam, so Washington, together with China, backed the Khmer Rouge, the enemy of Vietnam. The USA backing of the Khmer Rouge was even more cynical, given the discovery at the time of the extent of the genocide of some million and a half to two million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge. The Carter administration helped arrange continued aid to the Pol Pot through the Chinese, which prevented the Khmer Rouge from being defeated by Hanoi. This was President Carter's. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's handy work! From 1979 to 1981, the United States led Western nations in voting for the Khmer Rouge to be sole representative of their Cambodian victims in the U N. Washington, under President Reagan, rejected any attempt to brand the Khmer Rouge as "genocidal" until the Paris peace process in 1989.
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Jul 27 '05
1:04 pm PDT
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one minor detail, one less minor one, and agreement (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
I don't think the US did anything to support Sihanouk, and definitely backed Lon Nol's overthrow. Although there are some dubious regimes in Latin America suported by the Bush administration, I don't think that any fully qualify as "dictatorships" (in marked contrast to the 1970s).
If I were less cynical, I would be struck by the evaporation of the scope of the public's right to know in regard to sex between consenting adults leading to impeachment and the unconcern about the pack of lies fed by the Bush administration about Iraq, or the very selective perception of "appeasment" that does not consider US acceptance of the PRC's annexation of Tibet (and its many other crimes against humanity, including supporting the Khmer Rouge) or appeasment of the House of Saud's sponsoring of fanaticism (in general, and hatred of the US) across the Islamic world.
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Jul 27 '05
11:41 am PDT
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