History Quote by Anthony Bourdain

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost…

— Loung Ung

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

— Pol Pot

“how the Khmer Rouge had multiplied and risen to power. It was due to four years of bombing, ordered by Washington, D.C. to destroy…

— Jennifer H. Lau

“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The…

— Bob Black

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

— Hun Sen

There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us…

— Pol Pot

“...when we were walking through Angkor War, I found myself wondering about what is lost when one culture is systematically annihilated so another can…

— Kim Fay

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

— Bill Ayers

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

— William Shawcross

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

— Angelina Jolie