Comments on: Letter from … Phnom Penh http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/28/letter-from-phnom-penh/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Martin Shanahan http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/28/letter-from-phnom-penh/#comment-5619 Martin Shanahan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5619 I was a student at UNSW at the time of the Killing Fields - on campus I opposed the activities of the Khmer Rouge - but no one believed that such an atrocity could be occurring. No one.<br /><br />Often fellow students suggested that people who opposed the Khmer Rouge, and the NLF and Vietcong for that matter, by definition supported the evil Americans who always killed indiscriminately. How depressing it was to discover that the Khmer Rouge ands their peers to the East were quite discriminate and deliberate in their selection of those to be killed. I was a student at UNSW at the time of the Killing Fields - on campus I opposed the activities of the Khmer Rouge - but no one believed that such an atrocity could be occurring. No one.

Often fellow students suggested that people who opposed the Khmer Rouge, and the NLF and Vietcong for that matter, by definition supported the evil Americans who always killed indiscriminately. How depressing it was to discover that the Khmer Rouge ands their peers to the East were quite discriminate and deliberate in their selection of those to be killed.

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