The Desecration of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in the Context of the Zionist Imperialist Conspiracy to Destroy National Independence

--- John Paul Cupp, Public Relations Director of the North American Committee Against Zionism and Imperialism (NACAZAI)

Most of you all have noticed, at least briefly, the UN-sponsored "War Crimes Tribunals" of former Khmer Rouge leaders.

I felt like it was important to say a few words.

First, the "tribunal" follows the same Zio-imperialist form as that against the leadership of Iraq and Yugoslavia. It lacks any right to exist, and should be condemned. This is true even if many or even all of the detainees have repudiated their revolutionary work, and should be seen as an act of globalism seeking to destroy the national fabric of Kampuchea (Cambodia) by banning and tarnishing the highest expression of her revolutionary forerunners and traditions, namely Pol Pot.

People often have a real problem with Pol Pot, and consider him some sort of insane homicidal weirdo. I don’t. In fact, if one surrenders to this, they wind up destroying the revolutionary legacy of all peoples, and all peoples who have placed blows against the enemy receive such treatment.

It may well be true that Democratic Kampuchea made errors and that certain members may have actually committed crimes. In fact, it would be metaphysical to assume otherwise. Does this change anything? No, not really.

However, one cannot deny nor easily dismiss that the Kampuchean National Liberation struggle gave well over a million martyrs for the liberation of the land, actually defeating US imperialism even before Vietnam and Laos did, and all this despite those two having far greater solidarity and aid for the outside world.

The policies of the Communist Party of Kampuchea have to be correctly seen in the context of deep hardships which they faced; hardships resulting from that country being bombed more than anyone in history by the US imperialists. We have to understand that the Kampuchean leadership, far from being ethno-chauvinists, correctly understood well that the Vietnamese were seeking to swallow them and follow that people’s historical patterns of behavior against its neighbors, and that were they to surrender their own nationalist and Communist struggle to the geo-political expediency or directives of either Vietnam or the Soviet Union, that they never would develop such a revolution.

Pol Pot, despite clear anti-imperialist and Communist credentials, has become a sacred cow of liberalism; supposedly showing that revolutionary struggle is often worse than imperialist aggression. This conspiracy is one that even many Communists, leftists, and would-be anti-imperialists shy away from or promote. Not only are we spitting on the grave and memory of a revolutionary hero with such behavior, but we aren’t doing ourselves any good in the process.

Democratic Kampuchea has become the holiest of holy sacred cows for cosmopolitan anti-Communism. Hence, the enemy’s narrative needs to be smashed ruthlessly.

When we honor the heroes of resistance in the past, regardless of any mistakes which may have occurred, we objectively and subjectively strengthen our own struggles today.

The Communist Party of Kampuchea should always be remembered for having defended the national independence of Kampuchea, and that’s something we all need to learn from today.