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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada's policy of support for the Khmer Rouge
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Date: 6 Sep 89 02:26:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: miller@uwovax.uwo.ca's message of 30 Aug 89 22:41:03 GMT

In article <3726@uwovax.uwo.ca> miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller) writes:

   Why has the representative of the Government of Canada maintained a
   position at the conference in Paris, which has just unsuccessfully
   concluded, that the Khmer Rouge must be a part of any future government
   of Cambodia?

   Maybe it is time to phone or write to your MP and find out what their
   views are on this disturbing policy position of the Government of
   Canada.

I am pleasantly surprised to hear that SOMEONE (aside from the
Vietnamese and Cambodians) are concerned about this issue.  Although
the Khmer Rouge slaughtered 2 million of their population of 7 million
(including anyone they found wearing glasses (sign of education -->
danger to the state)) and continue to terrorize their own countrymen,
Canada follows the lead of the US in denying the legitimacy of the
current Cambodian govt of Hun Sen, because that govt is supported by
those godless commies, the Vietnamese who have (oh my gosh) invaded
Cambodia and haven't yet left.  No one in the UN mentions the fact
that Vietnam's invasion also stopped the senseless slaughter in
Cambodia.  

This is all part and parcel of the US's political dance in Southeast
Asia to make sure that the world knows that it still hates Vietnam for
having won the war and for being supported by the USSR.  The US
refuses aid to Vietnam and to Cambodia until such time as Vietnam
removes all its troops from Cambodia.  Of course, once that happens,
Sihanouk and his Khmer Rouge pals will proceed with the same
atrocities they committed only a few years ago while the world sat
back and watched.

Of course, this is an unbiased opinion!
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