Noam Chomsky blev nyligen intervjuad på ZNet om främst Kambodja och Röda Khmererna. När pappegojmedierna i västvärlden pratar om Kambodja är det alltid lika kul att notera vad som inte sägs om västvärlden och dess verkliga förhållande till landet och Röda Khmererna, hur vi med vårat agerande skapar terror.
[T]he records say that the US wanted to "use anything that flies against anything that moves" [during the bombing of Cambodia] , which led to five times the bombing that was reported before, greater than all bombing in all theatres of WWII, which helped create the Khmer Rouge.
So to try to excuse their crimes from the broader picture may be sensible for Cambodians who are trying to find some internal justice and reconciliation, but for the broader picture, it's simply farcical.
So you think US leaders should be tried in connection with the crimes of the DK regime?
Not just in the context of the DK regime—that's afterwards, I think supporting the KR after the Democratic Kampuchea regime, after they were kicked out - or supporting the Chinese invasion to punish Vietnam for the crime of driving them out, that's a crime in itself. But the much worse crime was by Kissinger-Nixon, and its pretty hard to disagree with analysts like Ben Kiernan ... who released the documentation during the Clinton years - their conclusion was that this bombing, which really had genocidal intent -anything that flies against anything that moves - essentially changed the KR from a small group into a mass army of what they call enraged peasants bent on revenge. How could you omit that when you are discussing the Khmer Rouge atrocities?
Först bombade USA Kambodja sönder och samman med miljontals dödsoffer som följd, en alltså inte helt otänkbar anledning till att Röda Khmererna lyckades dra till sig folk. Men vad som är än mer osmakligt och som aldrig rapporteras i den västerländska diskursen om Kambodja är att USA alltså stödde Pol-Pot och Röda Khmererna efter det att de hade sparkats ut ur Kambodja av Vietnam, eftersom USA var sura på Vietnam.
National Security Archives har släppt över 28 000 sidor transkriberade samtal som Kissinger förde med diverse ledare i världen.
Discussing Cambodia with Thailand's Foreign Minister, Kissinger acknowledged that the Khmer Rouge were "murderous thugs" but he wanted the Thais to tell the Cambodians "that we will be friends with them": Cambodia aligned with China could be a "counterweight" to the real adversary, North Vietnam.
I samtalet som förs i våra medier av debattörer och tyckare fokuseras alltid enbart på Röda Khmerernas extrema våldshandlingar och mördande av det Kambodjanska folket 1975-1979. Historien om landet innan och efter den perioden existerar aldrig i det samtalet, eftersom man inte vill höra den. Det viktiga är att Pol Pot och Röda Khmererna framställs som bestialiska mördare under den period vi inte hade någon nytta av dem och att den period vi använde honom inte diskuteras.
Uppdatering: Det
här dokumentet (pdf) som
NSA lagt ut, är ett av samtalen mellan Nixon och Kissinger kan vara det som Chomsky hänvisar till i intervjun ovan. En upprörd Nixon beordrar bombningen av Kambodja.
Nixon: [T]he second thing is as i have put on here now I want you to get ahold of Moorer tonight and I want a plan where every goddamn thing that can fly goes into Cambodia and hits every target that is open.
Kissinger: Right.
Nixon: That's to be done tomorrow. Tomorrow. Is that clear?
Kissinger: That is right.
Nixon: I want this done. Now that is one thing that can turn this around some. They are running these goddamn milk runs in order to get the air medal. You know what they are doing Henry. It's horrible what the Air Force is doing. They aren't doing anything at all worth a damn.
Kissinger:They are not imaginative.
Nixon: Well, their not only not imaginative but they are just running these things - bombing jungles. You know that. They have got to go in there and I mean really go in. I don't want the gunships, I want the helicopter ships. I want everything that can fly to go in there and crack the hell out of them. There is no limitation on mileage and there is no limitation on budget. Is that clear?
Kissinger: Right, Mr. President.Bloggar:
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