Government approves updated anti-genocide law

[reader]

From The Jurist

The Cambodian government Friday approved a draft law that aims to punish those who ignore, minimize or deny the crimes committed by the communist regime between 1975 and 1979. Under the revised law, the civil penalty for genocide denial will now be increased to one to five years imprisonment and 10 million to 50 million riels (USD $2480 to $12,400).

The draft law is an amendment to the original 2013 anti-genocide denial law. The original law enforced a punishment of six months to two years imprisonment and a fine of 1 million to 4 million riels (USD$248 to $992).

The announcement of the draft law comes 50 years after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975. “Khmer Rouge” refers to both the regime of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) between 1975 and 1979, as well to the members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.

After seizing power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge attempted a nationwide socialist revolution that involved forced migration of civilians into rural areas in a “great leap forward,” aiming to transform the country into a homogeneous agrarian worker-peasant society.

During their five-year reign, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated widespread systematic enslavement, enforced population transfer, extermination, and attacks against human dignity on millions of civilians in Cambodia. The attacks were perpetrated on political, national, ethnic, racial and religious grounds.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/cambodia-government-approves-updated-anti-genocide-law/

[Moses]

13 minutes ago, reader said:

The Cambodian government Friday approved a draft law that aims to punish those who ignore, minimize or deny the crimes committed by the communist regime

There is no one word "communist" in the law. Again propagandists tricks?

Full text: https://bonnalay-com.translate.goog/law_documents/ច្បាប់-ស្តីពី-ការប្រឆាំ-2/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

But if we remember history, the Pol Pot regime was overthrown by troops from communist and pro-USSR Vietnam.

[reader]

You can't deny that the Khmer Rouge was a communist party.

From Wikipedia

The Khmer Rouge^[a] is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the Democratic Kampuchea through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, with whom he allied after the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

[Moses]

4 minutes ago, reader said:

You can't deny that the Khmer Rouge was a communist party.

You can't deny what country was named at that time Democratic Kampuchea. Should we call it democracy then?

By the way, the West was so afraid of the growing influence of Vietnam and the USSR in the region at that time that it supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge - see the link to this in that same Wiki article that you cited in your post. And Thailand was the base for Pol Pot's guerrilla camps and it was to Thailand that Mao and the US supplied them with weapons (see the same Wiki article)

[reader]

You still can't deny that the Khmer Rouge was a communist party.

 

 

[Moses]

10 minutes ago, reader said:

You still can't deny that the Khmer Rouge was a communist party

You can't still deny what Cambodia at that time was Democratic Kampuchea. And Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge was overthrown by communist Vietnam. And that the overthrow of Pol Pot is the merit of communist Vietnam and the USSR.

[reader]

I think we both agree what what we can't deny.

 

 

[vinapu]

On 1/26/2025 at 8:47 PM, Moses said:

 

On 1/26/2025 at 8:47 PM, Moses said:

By the way, the West was so afraid of the growing influence of Vietnam and the USSR in the region at that time that it supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge - see the link to this in that same Wiki article that you cited in your post. And Thailand was the base for Pol Pot's guerrilla camps and it was to Thailand that Mao and the US supplied them with weapons (see the same Wiki article)

Not only but also to its eternal shame, long after Khmer Rouge atrocities be home widely known, most Western countries supported Democratic Kampuchea seat at the UN and turning blind eye to Thailand's secretive yet active support of Khmer Rouge activities along the border.