JakeRMurrin

"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."

"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.  See: http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2

-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.  See: http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2

Although leftists like to minimize their comrades' crimes, Communism has been the greatest killer in history:

Although leftists like to minimize their comrades' crimes, Communism has been the greatest killer in history:

:::::See here:  http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm  

:::::See here:  http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm  

:::79-nineties:  Samrin's Gulag:  350,000 killed.

:::79-nineties:  Samrin's Gulag:  750,000 killed, primarily through famine.

:::::The problem with Rummel's claim here is simply that the estimates he averages are far too high. On the high end, he cites Del Vecchio's assertion that the Vietnamese and Samrin starved 600-700,000 Cambodians to death in their first year of power. Beyond the fact that this is not demographically possible, Del Vecchio's data is at odds with itself. Del Vecchio accepts that just over two million were killed by the Khmer Rouge, which averages to 733,000 per year. The notion that the Vietnamese killed a  number equal to that which Pol Pot would have killed over the period 78-79 ignores the following: Even if the Vietnamese prolonged the famine conditions of the Khmer Rouge era, less than 300,000 ''could have been'' starved to death over this period, because starvation by the state accounted for less than half of Pol Pot's annual (or total) death toll; the Vietnamese almost certainly did not starve anywhere near as many people as Pol Pot did, thus I doubt more than 200,000 died from these factors from 78-79; and all of these 200,000 deaths are actually already counted in virtually every estimate there is of deaths under the Pol Pot regime, because the Khmer Rouge was not formally deposed until 1979 and these deaths from starvation are counted as "excess deaths" caused by their misrule. After this period, then; it is doubtful that Samrin killed more than 100-200,000 people over a decade.

:::::Civil War (78-94):  200,000 Cambodians killed.  See: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm#Cambodian

North Korean Slave State: 6,250,000 killed.

North Korean Slave State: 6,250,000 killed.