That Canadian ambassador was perhaps enjoying himself with his family in Canada while Vietnamese boat people going home in soldiers of Pol Pot. How does he know all massacres of Yuon citizens living in Cambodia standing at 100% being committed by the Khmer Rouge? Related to the preoccupation with Khmer-ness was the intense loathing of Vietnam. The KR pushed Cambodia’s historical antipathy toward Vietnam to its worst extreme. KR units started attacking NVA units in the early 1970s, and some of the first Cambodians to perish in the revolution were returning KR cadres who had been exiled in Hanoi. Later, DK provoked Vietnam into a bizarre border war by massacring border villages, claiming several islands, and urging each Cambodian to kill 30 Vietnamese. The purges also had an anti-Vietnamese element – Kiernan contends that the entire Eastern Zone of Cambodia, bordering on Vietnam, and tending to somewhat more liberal control than other areas, was purged starting in 1977, because the central government identified it with Vietnamese influence. Eastern Zone people were marked with blue scarves and sent to work camps and torture centers in other regions. In all, Kiernan estimates that over 250000 people, accused of having “Khmer bodies with Vietnamese minds” died in this region in the 1977 and 1978 purges. Kiernan’s breakdown of the differential death tolls is revealing. Overall, he estimates that the death toll under Democratic Kampuchea from 1975-1979 was 21% (about 1.5 …
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