Talk:Khmer Rouge
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[edit] American Assistance to Khmer Rouge?
From Fall of the Khmer Rouge: "Despite American and Chinese aid" the 1978 Cambodian invasion of Vietnam failed. This aid needs to be described and sourced specifically.
[edit] Main photo
Main photo should be of a Khmer Rouge personality, not of victims of their slaughter. Let's remain NPOV, even to the bad guys ;) Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 06:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
It is perfectly NPOV to say that the most significant thing the KR regime did was to kill large numbers of people, and the photo to serves to illustrate the point. Adam 08:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I would have to disagree that it is NPOV. It should really be a photo of like Sherurcij said. The photo shows a plain biased view. I strongly suggest using this photo from this link of some of the Khmer Rouge leadership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kr4.JPG . The picture currently of the Khmer Rouge doesn't show exactly except a facade that's not neutral. We should use the actual picture of some of the leaders instead and use the photo of the prisoners, detainees, victims, etc. within the body of the wiki article instead. Just because Khmer Rouge were such a horrible group of people I don't see the wikipedia article on Hitler's Nazi Party displayed a picture of Jewish people being killed or interned while seeing starving people. So why do it to Khmer Rouge? It should be the picture of how some of the leadership looked like. Or maybe use the Flag instead.
Paracite 03:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)(edited on 12 Dec. 2006)
The flag is bogus. Adam 11:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok, well I can argue in the section is was at is irrelevant to the section to the article. I switched the pictures according to the section that seemed most relevant.
Please explain why it is bogus. Or were you refering to the national flag? I was confused with what you were saying haha. Paracite 21:54, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Flag
Doesn't the Khmer Rouge have a flag? Why doesn't Wikipedia, the world's best source, have a picture of it? It's divided diagonally by red and black, and in the center is a white swastika-like thing looking somewhat like a cross. Just remember not to confuse the Khmer Rouge's flag with the Democratic Kapuchea one! (March 5 2007)
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[edit] Cambodian genocide article request
I think there should be one. Like you have an articles about Nazis, Third Reich, Auschwitz etc (dozens or hundreds or such) AND the Holocaust. Here you get only this article, "Cambodia under Pol Pot", and some specific articles (biographies, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, etc.) - Cambodian genocide is just a redirect. There are 390 books describing or mentioning exactly "Cambodian genocide" (and 772 just Cambodia and genocide). --HanzoHattori 12:56, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tribunal
I cleaned up this section because there were some typos, and also because the delays in setting up the tribunal had more to do with the heel-dragging of UN bureaucrats and the machinations of other nations (China, the US) that were reluctant to implement a tribunal at all, or wanted to twist it to their own political purposes. Read the book: Getting Away with Genocide.
[edit] Fall of the Khmer Rouge
"There was a mass defection in 1996, when around half the remaining soldiers (about 4,000) left."
This is syntactically ambiguous. Is 4000 the number of who remain soldiers who remain or the number of defections?
ENScroggs 19:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
