.@NZGreens @KennedyGraham opposes the 1979 invasion of Cambodia?
13 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: Cambodia, genocide, humanitarian interventions, Khmer Rouge, Vietnam
I had some Cambodian friends at graduate school in Japan. Friendly, kind people despite growing up in hell. They also gave me great insight into the blinding power of nationalism.
My two Cambodian friends, educated urbane people, referred to the time after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia as when they were a Vietnamese colony.
Another Cambodian, who no one liked, when he annoyed his Vietnamese class mates too much, they would say, “Remember 1979.” This taunt would throw this Cambodian into a fit of nationalist pique. He raged against the invasion.
If any country would have benefited from an invasion from hell, it would have been Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge by 1979. At least, the Devil waits for you to die before he torments you.
When judging the morality of that invasion, whose express purpose was overthrowing the Khmer Rouge, the Greens would wait for clarification from the International Law Commission. A usually opinionated political party becomes empty of independent moral judgement .
A Rawlsian Law of Peoples allows for regime change of outlaw states and humanitarian interventions by liberal democracies. John Rawls argues that states that use force against their neighbours and oppress their citizenry must be excluded from the international community.
The first letter from a Holocaust survivor after liberation to friends
07 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: genocide, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust
Why are ex-Communists still on the Left forgiven for their past?
15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: autocracy, communism, ex-Communists, genocide, mass murder, reigns of terror, tinpot dictatorships, totalitarian dictatorships
When communism fell, so did mass killings. buff.ly/1PhbuYd #peace http://t.co/kZ3kKD3RI3—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
US troops liberate Dachau death camp today 1945
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: genocide, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust
#Masakra w #Dachau – żołnierze #USArmy zamordowali 560 #SS-manów po wyzwoleniu obozu. Czytaj: paranormalne.pl/topic/40026-ze… http://t.co/RyzRFOZ0Jl—
Paranormalne.pl (@paranormalnepl) April 20, 2015
On this day 1945… #Dachau #Liberation http://t.co/aTcKAjix4n—
Heather Ann Searfoss (@searfoss70) April 29, 2015
#NeverForget 29/04/1945: Liberation of #Dachau Death camp – hmd.org.uk/content/290419… – #NeverAgain http://t.co/evZB6Hdy9J—
פטריק פולוק (@redbrasco) April 29, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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