many of the most handsome guys seem to be from Vietnam/Cambodia; comments about Dream Boys

[francois]

. [WARNING! Sick joke ahead!] The benefits of a genocide: weeds out the weak and the sick, only the strong and healthy survive. But there is not much to do and to see in Cambodia, otherwise I might move there.
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Perhaps you could visit one of the thousands of Killing Fields to see for yourself just how funny your joke was?

[christianpfc]

[Ok, not funny. I thought so already, hence the rare warning, but was not entirely sure.]

Perhaps you could visit one of the thousands of Killing Fields to see for yourself just how funny your joke was?

I have been to Tuo Sleng museum, but not to the Killing Fields for lack of public transport. In addition, I read that they are run by the Vietnamese and all money is taken out of Cambodia, and the displays there deny the victims a burial according to Buddhism and insult them beyond their death. [citation needed]

Thank fuck I never met you, nor let you know where I live.

You never met anyone from this forum, nor let anyone know where you live (anything more detailed than Khon Khaen).

[fountainhall]

I read that they are run by the Vietnamese and all money is taken out of Cambodia, and the displays there deny the victims a burial according to Buddhism and insult them beyond their death.

I have been to the Tuol Sleng Museum, the former school where something like 15,000 were incarcerated and only 7 came out alive. Add to that the massacre of 1.5 million+ other Cambodians in a vast array of Killing Fields and it's not hard to work out that proper burials with Buddhist rites would be impossible. Most families had been split up. It was later estimated that at a minimum 600,000 Cambodians had been displaced. So it is unlikely that more than a few of the bones could be properly identified.

The Vietnamese-backed regime in Cambodia has been accused of many things, but I have never heard of their repatriating income from admission to Tuol Sleng or the Killing Fields. Let's recall it was the Vietnamese who put an end to the Killing Fields when they invaded Cambodia and saw off the Khmer Rouge murderers. And little credit did they get from the rest of the world. No country was prepared to take Pol Pot and his genocidal partners to the World Court. Even major semi-official NGOs from many countries - like the American Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists - all refused. Even worse, for 14 years from 1979 to 1993 an international coalition of all the Great Powers, especially the US, Britain, China and the ASEAN countries, actively prevented any action being taken against the Khmer Rouge regime. Worse, despite the all horrors to which the people had been subjected, the Khmer Rouge continued to have a seat in the United Nations until as late as 1993. The Cold War which had helped create the Killing Fields thus greatly rendered far more difficult the country's recovery. Although there was never much love lost between Cambodia and Vietnam, the world owes them a great deal for eliminating Pol Pot's regime.

[christianpfc]

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