Khmer rouge Quote by Jennifer H. Lau

“To survive during the Khmer Rouge, you had to steal, cheat, lie, point fingers at others, even kill. And now you are ashamed.”

— Joel Brinkley

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

“At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and…

— Heidi Postlewait

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent wasteoid who imagines the Khmer…

— Marisha Pessl

“certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable,…

— Timothy Snyder

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

— Loung Ung

“Perhaps the truth was that Hell wasn’t a physical location; it was an idea that could be summoned into being. Hell had been created…

— Marcus Sakey

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their country’s history.…

— Anthony Bourdain

“The deserters and dissenters expelled from the party formed RENAMO, a rebel group committed to snatching power from FRELIMO. Supported by South Africa and…

— Farida Karodia