Monday, November 19, 2012

The WASHINGTON POST: Cambodian police break up protest highlighting Kissinger, Khmer Rouge


Cambodian police break up protest highlighting Kissinger, Khmer Rouge

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Police have broken up a protest aimed at highlighting oppression of Cambodia’s people by political figures including former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the late despot Pol Pot.

Protest organizer Theary C. Seng described her Sunday action on the eve of a visit by President Barack Obama as “Poetic Justice Dart Games,” with pictures of Kissinger and others emblazoned on poster-sized dart boards set up on a busy riverside boulevard.

Kissinger directed U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon Administration when it carried out large-scale secret bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Some historians blame the bombing for embittering Cambodians and ushering in genocidal communist Khmer Rouge rule that left 1.7 million people dead. Theary Seng says Cambodia’s current government is also an enemy of freedom.

 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are Cambodian people love and welcome President Obama to Cambodia!

We are hate autocratic samdech decho Hun Sen and his regime! Please help President Obama!

Anonymous said...

We love you President Obama! We hate Hun Sen! because Hun Sen and his relatives can kill anyone in Cambodia and the court favour Hun Sen families relatives and friends!

President Obama help innocent khmer people please!

Anonymous said...

CIA and FBI are already known and inform the President about the issues that are facing Cambodia today.
Cambodian people must rise up and make very big loud noises so President Obama could intervene otherwise, president Obama can't help as international law but Cambodia people is the only key to make loud noise like Libyan people did to Gaddafi, Tunisian people did to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Egyptian people did to President Hosni Mubarak. Cambodian people can do the same to Hun Sen.

So the key is Cambodian people must rise up and make big noises so President Obama can intervene.