Comments for Cambodia’s Genocide and Catholic Slaughter at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:44:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7551 Pol Pot merely institutionalized his Sorbonne disseration. Who says intellectuals live in an ivory tower? - Yezhov Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:49:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7542 Thomas, The man I was referring to was not Nuon Chen. In the program he does not come off as having any qualms about his role in the genocide. I was referring to a villager who actually did some of the killing. I did not word my last sentence well. I agree that "no one can "share the forgivness of Christ with him." We can only share with him the FACT that Christ promises forgivness to those who repent." I hope you do not think that I am "more concerned about a murderer losing sleep over the thought returning as an insect that they are about preventing such slaughters from happening again." Preventing such slaughters and bringing peace to the murderer have the same answer, Christ. I join with Rachana and say " Let us continue to pray that the blood of the martyrs and millions that died in Cambodia will not be in vain. That the nation will find healing and the Church might once again thrive and flourish in Cambodia... - Beth Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:03:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7533 Thank you George for writing this article! I happen to be a Cambodian-American Catholic (convert from Buddhism), and although I was not born in Cambodia, my parents lived through this time period. I grew up hearing stories of what they lived through in the agricultural collectives, the arbitrariness with which the Khmer Rouge selected people for liquidation, and the immense suffering that they went went through just to make it to the refugees camps in Thailand -- and the chance to start a new life in the West. Not very many people know about the sufferings of the church in Cambodia during the bloody years of the Khmer Rouge and the 70's either. Bishop Chhmar Salah, Paul Tep, many missionaries, religious men and women, and the laity were targeted for extermination. In a short span of 5 years the entire Roman Catholic population of Cambodia was almost wiped out! And even afterwards, during the (Communist) Vietnamese invasion after the fall of S. Vietnam, Cambodia's people were further abused and robbed of the opportunity to develop freely and fairly. Let us continue to pray that the blood of the martyrs and millions that died in Cambodia will not be in vain. That the nation will find healing and the Church might once again thrive and flourish in Cambodia... - Rachana C. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:24:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7528 Beth, please forgikve me if I am not terribly moved Nuon Chens' fear of reincarnatkon as an insect when the story at hand is about how human beings could commit such abarbaric acts. The were able to do so because they abandoned a spirtual view of live for the materialistic ideology of Marxism. Also, no one can "share the forgivness of Christ with him." We can only share with him the FACT that Christ promises forgivness to those who repent. I fear that the very fact that some people seem more concerneed about a murderer losing sleep over the thought returning as an insect that they are about preventing such salughters from happening again proves the truth of what I suggested above. How can we prent such things? Well, we start by recognzing that Communism and other anit Christian ideologies can only produce evil and by stopping this nonsense about Pol Pot and his ilk just got Communism slightly wrong. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:48:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7526 I recommend watching Enemies of the People, a P.O.V. episode on PBS. The film is a remarkable story of forgiveness and truth-seeking by a man who lost his father and brother in the genocide. In it, Nuon Chea states that those of Vietnamese ancestory were not trusted and had to be eliminated. No mention was made about the faiths of the victims, but one of the men who actually did some of the killing was reflecting on how he did not think he could ever find forgiveness and would probably be doomed to future lives as an insect. I hope that someone will be able to share the forgiveness of Christ with him. - Beth Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:45:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7522 One wonders how much longer God will tolerate us. - Linus Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:12:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7520 We must bang the drums loudly and long on this matter so that no one will forget what was done in the killing fields, inpired by Marxism. Even now Marxists academics are deceiving the young, tellinig them that Pol Pot was more of a Buddhist than Communist. We cannot allow the residents ofthe shell of what was once Christendom to ingore the logical results of abandoning chrsit for the emtpy promise of a workeer's paradise on Earth. Why are there so few responses sto this great column? Is it because everyone already knows the facts and agrees, or is it because so many Catholics now feel ssquqeamish and embarrasssed to hear the inherently anti-Catholic ideology of Communism exposed for what it is? This phenomenon itself is a part of the "diabolical disorientation" of which Our Lady of Fatima foretold. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:32:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/cambodias-genocide-and-catholic-slaughter.html#comment-7513 Just a quick word of support for this well written reminder of the ultimate fruits of identity politics and a man-centered worldview. Sadly, many individuals in the '70s crying "never forget" averted their gaze when it was politically inconvenient to notice that it was happening again. - Other Joe Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:12:23 +0100