20 December 2011
Letters from our readers
World Socialist Web Site
A point missed here is that the Communist Party of Cambodia had first adhered to more of a Menshevik strategy which argued that the victory of Vietnam would enable economic development that would benefit Cambodia in the long run, but that the goal of their party was not to seize power in Cambodia at this time. There was a major turnover in the Party in 1972-3 as the old line was discredited and a new party line came forward that Cambodia should carry out its own peasant revolution in national rivalry against Vietnam. It was this new faction which Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) led to power. That factional turnover within the Communist Party of Cambodia would not have occurred if the war not had been expanded from Vietnam into Cambodia. Instead the party line would have been more like the way that the Communist parties of France and Italy maintained "solidarity" with the Soviet Union after World War II but served as bourgeois labor parties in their own nations, except in Cambodia it would have been Vietnam playing the role of the USSR.
Patrick M
17 December 2011
4 comments:
Pol Pot. and Khieu Samphan,
30 years ago before Pol Pot passed away Pol Pot said:
Indochina Federation of Cambodia & Laos by Vietnam under the disguise of "Friendship Cooperation" to put Laos and Cambodia under yuon annex.
Look back 30 years ago no millions of illegal immigrants in Cambodia as today ready to vote to legitimize Hun Sen regime and yuon military solders in Hun Sen uniforms ready to suppress Cambodian when Cambodian stand up for their rights..
Khieu Samphan ,
Even Khieu Samphan was a nominal Head of State as Sihanouk but Khieu Samphan strongly supported Pol Pot ‘ s strong policy and act against Indochina Federation to put Laos and Cambodia under youn annex since 1970s for over 30 years.
In 1949 the Vietcong government wrestled the Khmer Kampuchea Krom from the French colonial master from Cambodia! Pol Pot is in no mood to see the Vietcong government dominate the whole Cambodia as well! Lessons are learnt from the Vietcong oppression of the Khmer Krom people!
The Khmer resentment toward the Viet will never end as long as the Khmer Krom people still live under the Viet oppression! As for the Viet and they continue see themselves as superior race over the Khmer race!
Pol Pot,
After 1975 , Pol Pot sent a lot of his solders to attack and liberate Koh Trol from yuon occupation .
In 1976 , yuon Hanoi forced Pol Pot to except new border line but Pol Pot refused becaused if Pol Pot except this new line with yuon Hanoi , Khmer would lose a lot of Land and sea included some islands to yuon
i think pol pot and his KR way was primitive, they used jungle law to rule people, that's why millions of people perished because of the KR primitive way, you know! for this, cambodia should never allow primitive people to rule over cambodia again. primitive rule doesn't work anymore in cambodia, ok!
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