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> The Khmer Rouge believed that parents were tainted with capitalism, so they separated children from their parents, indoctrinated them in communism, and taught them torture methods with animals. Children were a “dictatorial instrument of the party” and were given leadership in torture and executions.

This sounds like it’s taken straight out of Orwells 1984.

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Wait until you read about the forced confession extraction in S-21 / Tuol Sleng...

I came back here in a hurry, having just read that part... where did they get this from? Why on earth would they be interested in forcing ‘confessions’ out of people, just to execute them later?

Maybe my initial comment should be that this is taken out from [a book] that both Orwell, and the Khmer Rouge has read; which book would this be?

It's not an uncommon tactic. Identify the people you want eliminated, force a confession (whether true or not), then carry out "justice".

You're not opposed to justice are you?

That's how the Inquisition worked, it's not an uncommon pattern. It's a twisted sense of justice.

Also, confessions include names which extend the inquisition. It's the same thing the Indonesians did when exterminating communists in 65-66, or South Korea did during the Bodo League massacre, or Chile under Pinochet, or Guatemala when slaughtering the Maya.

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