Comments on: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

By: Phearun Chhorn

Phearun Chhorn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000

Hello Robert, what do you mean by ” Propaganda”? 2 almost 3 millions were killed or starved to death i hope you won’t think that is a propaganda. However, the Khmer Rouge didn’t take over Phnom Penh on Sept but April 17 1975. Yes it was completely gratuitous for Nixon and kissinger to attack Cambodia, both of them should have been brought the ICC (International Criminal Court).

By: Bambi L'Amour

Bambi L'Amour — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:29:00 +0000

China. The Khmer Rouge also used alot of the former Soviet arms.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:32:00 +0000

What a one sided load of pap. For a peaceful, quiet, unassuming people they certainly perfected the art of savage killing very quickly.
I’m curious, where did the murderers get the AMTRACKS, RPG’s mortars, machine guns and all the rest of their weapons from? The USA? I also love the part where the documentary leaves out any mention on the Ho-Chi-Mien trail and makes the impression we carpet bombed the entire country. It sure looked like Pheom-Pene was undamaged.
Bottom line, WHO created and supported Pol-Pot and his regime of terror?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:32:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:55:00 +0000

My bad, I thought their was in election where someone other than Bush was elected. Has’nt O bama been president for the last three years?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:46:00 +0000

You’re to be congratulated. Your comment is the best example of quoting directly from the liberal hand book I have ever seen. You hit just about every liberal talking point in just a few paragraphs.
I’m not as eloquent as you are so I will close now and bask in the afterglow of your genius.
Besides I have some baby seals to club.

By: audiophile

audiophile — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:55:03 +0000

@ Keith Rogers:
I can tell that you probably have something interesting and relevant to say but I’m having a hard time understanding you or following your ideas. Try to ease up on the prose and take the time to proofread what you write. Complete sentences, accurate punctuation and functional segue would do wonders in conveying your idea and maintaining your credibility.
Please don’t take this personal, I’m not trying to insult you. I just see a lot of people ranting on things that are relevant but the way they make their point ends up so disjointed and flakey that they end up coming across as unballanced or just stupid. We all know that with right wing conservatives running around with their bullhorns spreading misinformation and malfeasance, the last thing we need is to be written off because of semantics. Just think of hippies….. generally they have some fundamentally good philosophy but they loose their credibility talking, um the way they talk…… I mean, really, who takes hippies seriously? Just watch the documentary “Butterfly” and you’ll see what I mean.
Take care

By: ItIsI

ItIsI — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:18:28 +0000

I Phisically had pain in my heart looking at this

By: Keith Rodgers

Keith Rodgers — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:14:26 +0000

Mr. Robert Haley.

You need sir to remove you head from the Sand.

The CIA and MI6 are Still in Cambodia supporting the Khmer Rouge. They bring Weapons made in W. Germany into Singapore where they are then brought to Thailand. Then of all things they are held on United Nations Property which is Leased to the United States who has then turned it into a Military campground where the Khmer Rouge pick up the weapons.

In these weapons, There is also British Mines (Packed with Pellets) that when exploded usually make it so hard to stop the bleeding. Too many holes to fill. It is estimated that 80 People a day loose their legs to land mines in the rice paddy’s and these British mines.

To say the War came to an End in that are is a Joke. This is the on-going problem we face with the CIA as they have taken part in the overthrow of 50 countries in many parts of the world but mostly in Latin America.

As with Afghanistan, Had not the CIA Created Osama Bin Laden to push Russia out of Afghanistan and Made the LIST which we call Al-Queada (Not a Group) we would not be locked up with our Military in many parts of the world.

What they call American Interest’s is the KEY WORDS. Instead of pumping $800,000,000 into Clean Energies like Solar Fuels or Wind Power they pump that into Our Military. Then they under the term FREEDOM throw our Children to the Fire and have them fight these Illegal Wars where Our Children DIE! and Businesses like Halliburton make Billions off their Death’s and on the side they Steal Billions More.

Under all that George War Criminal Bush said he was going to do for the Iraqi people that were FOUND INNOCENT of WMD’S is not that they got New Power Plants, New Water Plant’s or Sewer Plant’s. No, They got a $60,000.000 New Prison. Just what Iraq needed after the USA Bombed them into the Stone age.

Now the even Bigger HOAX is upon us with all the H1N1 scare and the Smallpox vaccine they have 80,000,000 doses for the American people to take. Big Government has Mixed with Big Pharma and their making Billions off this. Isn’t it funny that 2 years BEFORE the H1N1 Virus first appeared that a Patented appeared for a vaccine for it? http://bit.ly/4FCrpr. How did they KNOW?? And then there is Congress, http://bit.ly/bU7Fgn, 80% of the US Population Destroyed? a New Bill of Right’s? How and Why is all this being setup?

Sadly you wont see our Controlled Media talking about these things. All they care about is how WALL STREET is presented to US. I could not stand Glenn Beck before, But now I think he has a Point. http://bit.ly/9Aoh4E. How can people Make TRILLIONS while the rest of us are so broke.

Why do they talk about SSI going under when the WAR DEPARTMENT takes $20,000,000,000 from SSI to fight the Iraq War. When will Our People matter more to Our Government then other people.

Think of how long it took to get aid for the victims in Katrina. Yet, Pakistan has a Flood and Day 1 the US Government sends $220,000,000 over there. How many Children in the USA would that had fed? How many Elderly could have afforded their prescriptions over food?

What are American Interest’s to OUR Government?
November 2 is coming. You Decide.

Just a cowboy in Montana. The Air is Clear here, We can see a lot farther then the City folk can. I used to worry about My Future, Now I worry if my Dog will make it and I love my Dog.

By: Keith Rodgers

Keith Rodgers — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:32:41 +0000

Search here for John Pilgers Doc’s on Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is the same exact same story. Except in this case Bush took the head of Unocal in California and made hime the Afghan President. Follow the OIL and you will see the PIPE Dreams of a President. and the War Crimes too.
Here is were the USA Sold IRAQ the Bio Weapons. Not ONE News Agency brought this out. http://bit.ly/cz9Iaq

And here is Where Bush did his dirty Oil Deals.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htmBefore
http://www.wanttoknow.info/020318chicagotribune
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi7.html
http://centurean2.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/afghanistan-a-war-for-gas-and-oil-pipelines-2/

It is no wonder that Our Government want’s a “KILL SWITCH” on our Internet. What we can’t find they can hide. and if they have nothing to hide, They hide EVERYTHING!.

THINK! Before that becomes Illegal too.
Posse Comitatus Act Changed in 2007. Martial Law is Ready.
Insurrection Act Changed in 2007. Martial Law in Place.

2008 NORAD starts bringing troops home to deal with Civil Unrest and US Crowd Control. http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-218695.htm

By: Elias

Elias — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:15:02 +0000

US is a war sick criminal..starting war whenever they like..aids not provide n UN is stupid enough..rules r dead..y they dun jus aid ti cambodians immed..waiting 4 votes n taking thier own sweet time when ppl r dead

By: Nikola

Nikola — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:37:54 +0000

Horrible. Simply horrible. What a massacre. And H. Kissinger got a Nobel prize for this massacre???!!!
John Pilger, the best journalist ever.

By: karl jansson (sweden)

karl jansson (sweden) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:05:27 +0000

re: Robert Haley.
I’ve lived in Cambodia, i’ve seen the places from this documentary. this is not propaganda, it’s fact, if you fly from Saigon to Phnom penh you can still se bomb craters in the cambodian countryside. I recomend you to watch the documentary “trials of Kissinger” to ge an idea of the foreign policies of the Nixon administration during the 70′s. Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown by the us backed general Lon Nol 1970. Sihanouk was living in exil in China. from China he went out on the radio urging the khmers to “go to the jungle and join the guerilla, the khmer rouge”, he belived they could help him defeat Lon Nol and restore his power. the US bombed a neutral country, it’s a war crime, and thus makes Kissinger and Nixon war criminals, the UN should put them on trial at the warcrime tribunal in Haag, but sadly the UN didnt behave that nice during this era either. the khmer rouge were allowed to keep their seat at the UN till 1989, even though the world knew of their crimes. And the khmer rouge didn’t take Phnom penh in september 1975, they took phnom penh on april 17th 1975, and the vietnamese took phnom penh from the khmer rouge 7 january 1979 (bhramphal makhara). this is a good documentary, not propaganda.

By: robert haley

robert haley — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:45:25 +0000

No. It’s propaganda. At least the beginning is. I haven’t seen the whole thing yet. US bombing of Cambodia ended on August 17th of 1973! The Khmer Rouge took Pnom Pehn in Sept. of 1975. The bombing ended two years before year zero, and over two years before any starvation began. He fails to mention that. In fact, it appears that his mis-impression is quite deliberate. Tying Nixon and Kissinger to the Cambodian genocide is completely gratuitous.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:33:02 +0000

This was very enlightening. I’ve read “The Killing Fields,” which was a nonfiction book about these events, but watching this has been refreshing. It’s hard to believe that people can be capable of committing such atrocities.