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"There were 750,000 "unnatural deaths" in Cambodia from 1975-78.....The Nixon [and Ford] administrations predicted a million deaths in Cambodia if US aid were to cease."
-Noam Chomsky, infamously praising the Khmer Rouge for saving hundreds of thousands of lives and for killing virtually no one at all. The prediction actually referred to the likely death toll from a Communist take-over, and asserted that the Khmer Rouge would murder more than one million people if they took power.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/manufacturing.html</ref> The Khmer Rouge should indeed take the blame for those who were killed by their refusal to allow foreign aid, although before 1975 an aid cut-off would likely have cost only thousands of lives at most, and the Khmer Rouge did nothing to alleviate the famine they artificially cultivated. Chomsky cultists (Wade Frazier, I'm looking at you) ''still'' use these easily debunked claims to openly deny the Khmer Rouge genocide, largely thanks to willful ignorance and self-deception. Cambodia's 1975 population of 6.8 million<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> fell to 4 million by 1979.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>
"Oh will there be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town?/ Aye, there'll be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town."-US print and television journalists, singing to the tune of "She Was Poor But She Was Honest," openly mock the very idea of a Communist genocide in Cambodia.<ref>http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2</ref>
Although leftists like to minimize their comrades' crimes, Communism has been the greatest killer in history:
Communist China: 77,000,000 killed.<ref>http://democraticpeace.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/reevaluating-chinas-democide-to-73000000</ref>
Soviet Russia: 62,000,000 killed.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB1.1.GIF</ref>
Cambodian Democide State (67-94): 4,800,000 killed
::::67-75: 600,000 killed.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Civil War: 250,000 killed.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::North Vietnamese invasions; Sihanouk and Lon Nol democide, pogroms and purges; Communist occupations: 300,000-400,000 killed.<ref>Del Vecchio's For the Sake of All Living Things. If anything, these are low estimates, given that the Communists (Khmer Krahom--Pol Pot's crew--as well as Khmer Viet Minh, North Vietnam, Viet Cong and other associated groups) controlled 60% of the country for nearly a decade prior to the Khmer Rouge take-over.</ref>
::::75-78: Khmer Rouge Hell-State: 2,750,000 killed.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref> Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' and as little as a ''third'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2.2 and 3.3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> Others estimate 1.5 million may have been executed, which would indicate that 3 million were killed even if executions accounted for half the death toll. Range: 1.1 to 1.5m executed; 1-2m worked or starved to death by the state. From this, I conclude 1.25m were executed and 1.5m worked or starved to death by the state, for a total of 2.75m killed in three years.
::::Samrin's Gulag (78-nineties): 1,500,000 killed.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Samrin Regime: At least 500,000 (lowest estimate) to 1,500,000 (highest estimate) directly killed by the state in democide.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM</ref> Total: About 1,000,000 (mid-value sum).
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Unintended, Excess Famine in Eighties: 250,000 deaths (lowest estimate).<ref>http://www.mega.nu/ampp/rummel/dbg.tab11.2.gif</ref> (Note: Intentional use of famine by the state counted under Samrin regime total.)
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Civil War (78-94): 200,000 Cambodians killed.<ref>http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm#Cambodian</ref>
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::TOTAL KILLED: 4.8 million killed.
NOTE: Cambodia's population was 7.3 or 7.4m when mass killings began. It was about 6.7 or 6.8m when Pol Pot came to power. It was 4m by the time of the 1978 invasion from Vietnam. This means that Cambodia lost close to 3,400,000 people from 70-78, or 46% of the population. Pol Pot wiped out about 41% of his subjects. If Del Vecchio's work on Cambodia is correct, the Vietnamese invasion and puppet regime killed over 600,000 of its total 1m in its first 12 months in power, primarily by intentionally prolonging the famine conditions of the Khmer Rouge era for months before allowing international aid to alleviate it (presumably to brutalize the population into acquiesence). This would mean Cambodia lost 4m out of 7.4m from 1970-80, or 55% of the population in 10 years. I am not sure if demographically this could be wholly accurate, unless the population was higher than 7.4 million when the killings began. The population would had to have been about 3.5m in 1980 for this breakdown to be correct, unless the population was 8m in 1968 (in which case an even 50% of the population was slaughtered in a decade of inconceivable horror and tragedy). Nonetheless, the overall estimate of deaths under Samrin is, if anything, rather conservative, when one considers the massive population growth following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge, as Cambodians sought to make up their lost numbers.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM</ref> According to the UN and Red Cross, 2.25 million ''more'' Cambodians would have starved to death due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> if the Khmer Rouge had had even a couple more years in power. They were saved by American and international aid allowed by the Vietnamese.
::::4.8m is, if anything, conservative. Demographic studies show that Cambodia is "missing" approximately 5 million individuals (it should have been 12 million in 1990, but it was only about 7 million).<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.FIG9.2.GIF</ref> From 80-90, Cambodia's population doubled.
-Noam Chomsky, infamously praising the Khmer Rouge for saving hundreds of thousands of lives and for killing virtually no one at all. The prediction actually referred to the likely death toll from a Communist take-over, and asserted that the Khmer Rouge would murder more than one million people if they took power.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/manufacturing.html</ref> The Khmer Rouge should indeed take the blame for those who were killed by their refusal to allow foreign aid, although before 1975 an aid cut-off would likely have cost only thousands of lives at most, and the Khmer Rouge did nothing to alleviate the famine they artificially cultivated. Chomsky cultists (Wade Frazier, I'm looking at you) ''still'' use these easily debunked claims to openly deny the Khmer Rouge genocide, largely thanks to willful ignorance and self-deception. Cambodia's 1975 population of 6.8 million<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> fell to 4 million by 1979.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>
"Oh will there be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town?/ Aye, there'll be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town."-US print and television journalists, singing to the tune of "She Was Poor But She Was Honest," openly mock the very idea of a Communist genocide in Cambodia.<ref>http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2</ref>
Although leftists like to minimize their comrades' crimes, Communism has been the greatest killer in history:
Communist China: 77,000,000 killed.<ref>http://democraticpeace.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/reevaluating-chinas-democide-to-73000000</ref>
Soviet Russia: 62,000,000 killed.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB1.1.GIF</ref>
Cambodian Democide State (67-94): 4,800,000 killed
::::67-75: 600,000 killed.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Civil War: 250,000 killed.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::North Vietnamese invasions; Sihanouk and Lon Nol democide, pogroms and purges; Communist occupations: 300,000-400,000 killed.<ref>Del Vecchio's For the Sake of All Living Things. If anything, these are low estimates, given that the Communists (Khmer Krahom--Pol Pot's crew--as well as Khmer Viet Minh, North Vietnam, Viet Cong and other associated groups) controlled 60% of the country for nearly a decade prior to the Khmer Rouge take-over.</ref>
::::75-78: Khmer Rouge Hell-State: 2,750,000 killed.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref> Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' and as little as a ''third'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2.2 and 3.3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> Others estimate 1.5 million may have been executed, which would indicate that 3 million were killed even if executions accounted for half the death toll. Range: 1.1 to 1.5m executed; 1-2m worked or starved to death by the state. From this, I conclude 1.25m were executed and 1.5m worked or starved to death by the state, for a total of 2.75m killed in three years.
::::Samrin's Gulag (78-nineties): 1,500,000 killed.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Samrin Regime: At least 500,000 (lowest estimate) to 1,500,000 (highest estimate) directly killed by the state in democide.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM</ref> Total: About 1,000,000 (mid-value sum).
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Unintended, Excess Famine in Eighties: 250,000 deaths (lowest estimate).<ref>http://www.mega.nu/ampp/rummel/dbg.tab11.2.gif</ref> (Note: Intentional use of famine by the state counted under Samrin regime total.)
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Civil War (78-94): 200,000 Cambodians killed.<ref>http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm#Cambodian</ref>
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::TOTAL KILLED: 4.8 million killed.
NOTE: Cambodia's population was 7.3 or 7.4m when mass killings began. It was about 6.7 or 6.8m when Pol Pot came to power. It was 4m by the time of the 1978 invasion from Vietnam. This means that Cambodia lost close to 3,400,000 people from 70-78, or 46% of the population. Pol Pot wiped out about 41% of his subjects. If Del Vecchio's work on Cambodia is correct, the Vietnamese invasion and puppet regime killed over 600,000 of its total 1m in its first 12 months in power, primarily by intentionally prolonging the famine conditions of the Khmer Rouge era for months before allowing international aid to alleviate it (presumably to brutalize the population into acquiesence). This would mean Cambodia lost 4m out of 7.4m from 1970-80, or 55% of the population in 10 years. I am not sure if demographically this could be wholly accurate, unless the population was higher than 7.4 million when the killings began. The population would had to have been about 3.5m in 1980 for this breakdown to be correct, unless the population was 8m in 1968 (in which case an even 50% of the population was slaughtered in a decade of inconceivable horror and tragedy). Nonetheless, the overall estimate of deaths under Samrin is, if anything, rather conservative, when one considers the massive population growth following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge, as Cambodians sought to make up their lost numbers.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM</ref> According to the UN and Red Cross, 2.25 million ''more'' Cambodians would have starved to death due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> if the Khmer Rouge had had even a couple more years in power. They were saved by American and international aid allowed by the Vietnamese.
::::4.8m is, if anything, conservative. Demographic studies show that Cambodia is "missing" approximately 5 million individuals (it should have been 12 million in 1990, but it was only about 7 million).<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.FIG9.2.GIF</ref> From 80-90, Cambodia's population doubled.