How reliable is theis information on Cambodia and

[timbaly]

source (http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html)

Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret “carpet bombings” of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in 1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years of American bombing had caused Cambodia’s traditional economy to vanish. The old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.


How reliable is that information, can someoen give me another site confirming this? I find this site very untrustworthy, it seems to be too anti-american for its own good. Is it true that the prince was overthrown by the US gov't and if so what happened to their replacement, how could they allow the Khmer Rouge to take power? Why didn't they stop the peasants using marxist terminology? Were they too pre-occupied in the war?

[Monty Cantsin]

I’ve don’t know about the Khmer Rouge but I have seen some of the stuff there talking about. But the quotes under the articles if they are true I don’t know why anyone would air on the side of American politicians.

[LuZhiming]

I thought this information was well known. :huh:

[Maynard]

As far as I know, that's not too inaccurate. Prince Sihanouk's relations with America were never good at just about any stage. He was overthrown by Lt-Gen Lon Nol, who was believed to be helped by the CIA and received military funding to fight "foreign communist forces" after that. It was defiantly in America's interest to have somebody like that in charge.


if so what happened to their replacement, how could they allow the Khmer Rouge to take power?

That's interesting, perhaps they didn't want the war for domestic political reasons, as it would have been hard to justify another war for the same reason for the one just finishing.


Here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/special_report/1998/07/98/cambodia/133533.stm) is a more mainstream site.

This is probably the best one though :http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10941
Read that and it pretty much supports everything said there.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

timbaly,

Your source is very similar to what I have heard from Noam Chomsky, who has pointed out that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were invisible on the Cambodian political scene prior to the Nixon administration's illegal bombing of the country. After Vietnam invaded and overthrew the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. actually supported Pol Pot and co. via China.

[timbaly]

Did Lon Nol have any connection to the School of the Americas?