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Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Goddess Ganga’s Mother of Water,
the great Mekong River
flows through the Kingdom of Cambodia.

The former Kampuchea borders Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
It was once a powerful Buddhist Khmer empire
that between the 11th and 14th century ruled
most of the Indochinese Peninsula.

On its red background, between two horizontal blue stripes,
the Khmer national flag displays a stylized image of Angkor,
the magnificent ancient temple complex,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The temple ruins are located amid forests and farms
at Tonle Sap, the Great Lake.
The people of Cambodia take stately pride in Angkor,
as a lofty symbol of Khmer nationhood and identity,

In the 20th century Cambodia underwent turbulent changes

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poem by Paul Hartal
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Cambodia

Written by ricky & marty wilde
Well he was thailand based
She was an airforce wife
He used to fly weekends
It was the easy life
But then it turned around
And he began to change
She didnt wonder then
She didnt think it strange
But then he got a call
He had to leave that night
He couldnt say too much
But it would be alright
He didnt need to pack
Theyd meet the next night
He had a job to do
Flying to cambodia
And as the nights passed by
She tried to trace the past
The way he used to look

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song performed by Kim Wilde
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

quote by Ed Bradley
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When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

quote by Pol Pot
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The Mayaguez Incident

Look and find our names upon The Wall,
Hargrove, Hall and Marshall were our names.
We were three men that were left behind,
three Marines still owed honorable graves.

Marines took back the hijacked Mayaguez
and recovered all her crewmen safe and well
But while our mission accomplished its objective
The Ninth Marines were ferried into hell.

The helicopters took us to the island,
Koh Tang, in the Southern China sea
The Khmer Rouge were dug in on the island
prepared for an assault from air or sea.

They say it was a failure of Intelligence-
The crew of The Mayaguez was moved before
The 2nd battalion forces first were landed
Upon that hostile beach, that deadly shore

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poem by John F. McCullagh
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In A Glass House

I've seen love
I've seen hate
I've seen all the emotion god creates.
I've seen good
I've seen bad
I've seen everything that you could ever have.
I've seen you
I've seen me
I've seen everything that i could want to be.
I've seen tall things
I've seen long things
I've seen everything a man was meant to see.
No one came,
No one is here
No one remembers.
Makes cambodia look like kansas,anytime
I've heard truth
I've heard lies
I've heard everything that ever crossed your mind.
I've heard( lust?)

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song performed by Gary Numan
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

quote by Ed Bradley
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Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

quote by Norodom Sihanouk
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I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

quote by Emma Bonino
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Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen
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