All posts tagged: Pol Pot

Wikipedia’s editors want to delete page: ‘Mass Killings under communist regimes’

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Fox News reports that Wikipedia is considering deleting its page that outlines the countless millions killed by Communist regimes around the world, by such mass murderers as Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. READ before it’s deleted: Mass killings under communist regimes Apparently, some editors for the online encyclopedia are concerned the page is being used by people who are opposed to the world’s glorious communist revolutions. One editor complained that the pages leaves the impression that communism is ‘inherently violent.’ Of course, that reminds me of the words written by the founder of communism, Karl Marx, in his poem entitled The Player: “The hellish vapours rise and fill the brain, till I go mad and my heart is utterly changedSee this sword, the prince of Darkness sold it to me. Fortunately, some editors are pushing back. One described the potential deletion as ‘Orwellian’, adding, “it’s very nomination for deletion is a political act attempting to whitewash Communism.” Others have noted that these same Wikipedia editors demanding it be deleted are not calling for …

Houseboats on Tonie Sap River in Cambodia Photo: Brian Hoffman/Flickr/Creative Commons

Pol Pot’s chief torturer comes to Christ

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The Khmer Rouge started off as a Maoist, guerilla group in the Cambodian jungles. Run by a despot named Pol Pot, they overthrew the Cambodian government in 1975 starting a four year reign of terror. In an effort to transform Cambodia into an agrarian society, Pol Pot emptied the cities forcing people into the country where hundreds of thousands were either starved to death, slaughtered or simply worked to death. Phnom Penh, the capital city with a current population of over 1.2 million, was turned into a ghost town in the late 70s. The regime’s motto was “To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss” and certainly they lived by it. There were mass executions of former government loyalists, intellectuals (this included people wearing glasses which indicated they could read) and non Cambodians such as Vietnamese and Chinese. Religious groups were also targeted particularly Christians and Muslims. Though, the Khmer Rouge were finally ousted by the Vietnamese in 1979, it’s estimated the Khmer killed 1.7 million Cambodians — nearly 20% of …