Britain Trains Khmer Rouge Guerrillas

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Conspiracy theory?

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How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand - New Statesman (leftmedia)
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/.../how-thatcher-gave-pol-pot-hand
On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of .... He revealed that the SAS was training the Pol Pot-led force.

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

As a result of Chinese and Western opposition to the Vietnamese invasion and occupation, the Khmer Rouge, rather than the PRK, was allowed to hold Cambodia's United Nations (UN) seat until 1982. After 1982, the UN seat was filled by a Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition—the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK).^[1][2]

US military and diplomatic support[edit]

According to Michael Haas, despite publicly condemning the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. offered military support to the organization and was instrumental in preventing UN recognition of the Vietnam-aligned government.^[16] Haas argued that the U.S. and China responded to efforts from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) for disarming the Khmer Rouge by ensuring the Khmer Rouge stayed armed, and that U.S. efforts for merging the Khmer Rouge with allied factions resulted in the formation of the CGDK. After 1982, the U.S. increased its annual covert aid to the Cambodian resistance from $4 million to $10 million.^[17]

Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, recalled: "ASEAN wanted elections but the U.S. supported the return of a genocidal regime. Did any of you imagine that the U.S. once had in effect supported genocide?" In fact, Kausikan described the disagreement between the U.S. and ASEAN over the Khmer Rouge as reaching the threshold that the U.S. even threatened Singapore with "blood on the floor".^[18]

U.S. support for the Khmer Rouge guerrillas in the 1980s was "pivotal" to keeping the organization alive, and was in part motivated by revenge over Vietnam's defeat of the U.S. during the Vietnam War, according to Tom Fawthrop.^[19] 

Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role | World news | The ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/09/cambodia Ta Mok, one of Pol Pot's genocidal henchman, who faces trial, tells Jason Burke in Phnom Penh he will expose the West's part in training the Khmer Rouge  Jan 8, 2000 - To allow Ministers to deny helping the Khmer Rouge, the SAS was ordered to train only soldiers loyal to the ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ...

 he confirmed to The Observer that the extent to which London and Washington helped the Khmer Rouge in their fight to control Cambodia would be revealed during his trial. The evidence will contradict statements made by Margaret Thatcher's Government - which authorised the operation at the time.

Ta Mok's lawyer, Benson Samay, said the court would hear details of how, between 1985 and 1989, the Special Air Service (SAS) ran a series of training camps for Khmer Rouge allies in Thailand close to the Cambodian border and created a 'sabotage battalion' of 250 experts in explosives and ambushes. Intelligence experts in Singapore also ran training courses, Samay said.

To allow Ministers to deny helping the Khmer Rouge, the SAS was ordered to train only soldiers loyal to the ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and the liberal democrat former Prime Minister, Son Sann, who were fighting alongside Pol Pot's Communists. However, Samay said the court would be told the Khmer Rouge benefited substantially from the British operation.

'All these groups were fighting together - but the Khmer Rouge were in charge. They profited from any help to the others. If they had won the war outright, then Pol Pot would have been back in charge,' Samay said.


Chris Ryan - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ryan
Colin Armstrong, MM (born 1961), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Chris ... Needing a parent regiment, Ryan and a soldier who had joined 22 SAS from the Royal ... In March 2009 Ryan admitted that "when John Pilger, the foreign correspondent, discovered we were training the Khmer Rouge [we] were ...

Who Supported the Khmer Rouge? - Counterpunch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/16/who-supported-the-khmer-rouge/
Oct 16, 2014 - After taking power in Cambodia in 1975, the Khmer Rouge emptied every .... Meanwhile, the British SAS began training Cambodian guerrillas ...

Britons Said to Train Khmer Rouge Forces - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/11/.../britons-said-to-train-khmer-rouge-forces.htmlOct 11, 1990 - A television documentary has reported that British soldiers have been training the Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas of Cambodia.

Remember that Britain's SAS trained the Khmer Rouge
https://www.prisonplanet.com/remember-that-britains-sas-trained-the-khmer-rouge.html
Jan 6, 2009 - At a time when the USA is supporting Israel's actions in Palestine, we should remember that the USA and UK supported Pol Pot and his ...

Dance on Thatcher's grave, but remember there has been a coup in ...
johnpilger.com/.../dance-on-thatcher-s-grave-but-remember-there-has-been-a-coup-in...
Apr 25, 2013 - The British representative was instructed to vote with Pol Pot at the World ... kind intraining, equipping or co-operating with the Khmer Rouge or ...

the US, Britain and China, Pol Pot's main backer, invented a "resistance coalition" dominated by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces and supplied by the CIA at bases along the Thai border. There was a hitch. In the wake of the Irangate arms-for-hostages debacle, the US Congress had banned clandestine foreign adventures. "In one of those deals the two of them liked to make," a senior Whitehall official told the Sunday Telegraph, "President Reagan put it to Thatcher that the SAS should take over the Cambodia show. She readily agreed." 

In 1983, Thatcher sent the SAS to train the "coalition" in its own distinctive brand of terrorism. Seven-man SAS teams arrived from Hong Kong, and British soldiers set about training "resistance fighters" in laying minefields in a country devastated by genocide and the world's highest rate of death and injury as a result of landmines. 

Cocktails with Khmer Rouge killers - Reuters Blogs
blogs.reuters.com/global/2010/07/30/cocktails-with-khmer-rouge-killers/
Jul 30, 2010 - The sentencing of Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav this week ... The British elite military unit the SAS were later revealed to have trained ...

Who Supported the Khmer Rouge? - Counterpunch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/16/who-supported-the-khmer-rouge/
Oct 16, 2014 - With the conviction last summer of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu .... Meanwhile, the British SAS began training Cambodian guerrillas ...

After Vietnam invasion Vietnam offered to withdraw its forces in exchange for an end to assistance to the Khmer Rouge

official U.S position was that its aid was being supplied only to non-Khmer Rouge forces. However, political analyst Michael Haas reports that a diplomatic source revealed to him that American officials pressured Thailand to aid both the Khmer Rouge (KR) forces and the non-KR armies. The reason was not difficult to fathom. The Khmer Rouge fielded by far the largest guerrilla army, numbering at its peak 40,000 soldiers, and it comprised the only effective fighting force opposed to the Cambodian government.

Carter Administration urged international aid organizations to cut off assistance and aid to Vietnam for having swept Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot from power.


Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia

The Khmer Rouge was the name popularly given to the followers of the Communist Party of ..... China "armed and trained" the Khmer Rouge both during the civil war and the years afterward, however. The UN ..... Britain and the United States in particular gave aid to the two non-Khmer Rouge members of the coalition. Photos