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Viciously Inhuman Ideologies

All those "isms" that plague society with their 'progressive' and 'humane' tendencies, those social and political experiments that great minds fashion into accepted and closely-held options to consolidate their tendencies toward consummate totalitarianism. Fascism, Communism, Islamism. All of them fanatical about transmuting society from the balance that human nature melds into the social contract to a collective horror of transfiguring mass slavery.

The disgusting, anti-human excesses of the Soviet Union where millions of people perished in that great experiment of rigid socialism that exploited people and beggared their humanity, spread its influence to China, Cambodia, Burma, North Korea, and places like Cambodia. Total submission to the state ideal. Dissenters, intellectuals, academics, professionals, became an obliterated class, and the vast peasantry population was re-educated.

Now, so many years later, the excesses of human depravity that were visited on the Cambodian people are being examined in an international court of law, to try a handful of Khmer Rouge leaders; former head of state, foreign minister, minister for social affairs, and Pol Pot's second in command.

What occurred in the Soviet Union, in China and Cambodia; mass murder, famine, terror, poverty and illness resulted in the deaths of millions in each country. Atrocities unspeakable in their tortuous nature where the ruthless efficiency of Nazi Germany wasn't reflected, but rather a more primitive method of dispatching helpless people.

In Cambodia, as in other places engaging in genocidal cleansing like Rwanda, Congo, Sudan, death came up close and very personal, where victims were beaten to death with clubs, scythes, hooks, farm implements and electrical wire-whips. Slave labour was part of the indoctrination, the make-over of society into a flexible tool to enrich the overseers.

As in those other countries where genocidal determinism was so cleansing of unwanted elements, the culture was destroyed, the people tortured, starved, enslaved and murdered. In Cambodia, 20% of the population was annihilated over the space of less than four years.

Just another story in the ongoing saga of human development.

Labels: Realities, World News

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, February 18, 2009