Fwd: Don't laugh, It's not funny

> Subject: Don't laugh, It's not funny
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> Here we see a sign on the side of the genocide museum in Phnom Penh.
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> The ex school building was renamed S-21 and processed 'traitors' to
> the cause of the Khmer Rouge.
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> Processing was torture, rape and death of the most horrific kind.
> Over 8000 people came through here, only 7 survived. During my visit
> I met one of these 7 - he smiled and greeted us and I could not see
> anything in his eyes to show the horrors he suffered.
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> Among the tortures was the simulated drowning practice known as
> "Waterboarding", which us still in use today by the Americans aginst
> their traitors (now called Terrorists or Insurgents). How slow we
> are to learn the lessons of history.
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> The normalness of the killers and victims hand the fact that all
> this happened in my lifetime is for me more harrowing than the
> images of the dead, which are hung up here in their hundreds. My
> natural reaction is not to cry or get anguish but in fact to feel a
> kind of cold rage. I would die before I would let my country do
> these things. After a few moments reflection I worry that this is
> the sort of feeling that the killers felt, or how else could they do
> it? The fact of the matter is that they had no choice. That is what
> the KR took from the Cambodian people. Once that 'freedom' is gone
> all horrors become possible. The most important right is the right
> to say 'no'. Without that men will kill, rape and torture without
> remorce, as is shown here by the normalness of the guards and their
> stories.
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> Many of those guards were eventually sent here themselves and had
> their fingernails pulled out, children raped and killed in front of
> them, bodies beaten and eletrocuted and finally their
> throats cut.
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> So, the sign says not to laugh...
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> Absolutely god damn right -

> it's not funny.
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