Sydney Schanberg Quotes
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
Schanberg, Sydney. Quoted in "Pol Pot's Death Met With Relief, Demands for Justice." The Associated Press, 16 Apr. 1998.
See {604839} and {606444} as examples that O’Brien argues prove his point. However, Pol Pot’s killings were not to revolt. He had already achieved power, and the murders were a combination of vengeance and an attempt not to change government but to alter culture and values be exterminating those whose cultural perspective was different from the regime IN POWER.
Sailer’s point is well taken though the accuracy of the numbers in his comparison depends on definition. If one assumes that the Hitler murders are confined to the 6 million or so Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals then his numbers are right, But most people include the 22 million Russians killed in WWII and the other WWII deaths civilian and military and then Hitler caused deaths are much greater. However, the numbers are not critical to his point which is that under the guise of promoting equality many dictators have caused many deaths just as have the dictators who were preaching inequality. Extremism is always the problem.
This is the origin of the term “democide” which while not yet in common use has an importantly different meaning from genocide. The former Soviet Union killed millions for the purpose of gaining and maintaining power although they were not intending to wipe our a people or a culture—just opponents. Nazi Germany was guilty of both genocide and democide.
He was responsible for the genocide of 2 million Cambodians.
All the human and civil rights abuses of its citizens by governments are ALWAYS justified as necessary preservation of law and order.
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. He was responsible for the brutal killing of over 1 million of his own people.
Sydney Hillel Schanberg was an American journalist who was best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia. He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two George Polk awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Sigma Delta Chi prize for distinguished journalism. Schanberg was played by Sam Waterston in the 1984 film The Killing Fields based on the experiences of Schanberg and the Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in Cambodia.
