Who stopped the Cambodian Genocide?

[pcosmar]

I am baffled.

You claim that the centralized government of the UN stepped in to save Cambodia from Pol Pot, and then the UN created a problem of sex trafficking.

Holy thread necro Batman

NO,, That is NOT what he said.

After America left Vietnam, Vietnam rapidly rebuilt and then invaded Cambodia to stop Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

He said Vietnam invaded to stop Pol Pot.

and then the UN intervened.

The peace keeping soliders are generally credited with creating the market for child prostitution which is now rampant.

It did not sound to me like he was crediting the UN for saving Cambodia at all,, but rather with creating a problem.

My original point was that Vietnam fixed Cambodia once we got out of the way.

 

[idiom]

Wow....

Was like who is this dude who posted this.... he sounds really smart

No, the US should be attending to trafficking in humans within its borders rather than worrying about drugs, was the general point. End the drug war and a massive amount of the channels and money for human trafficking evaporate. The war on drugs assists human trafficking.

Vietnam 'fixed' Cambodia when the US pulled out of Vietnam. Its an example of local problems getting better when the US minds its own business.

The UN has a *Massive* systematic problem with sex trafficking appearing wherever they intervene.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/isht/study_group/2010/pdf/DesireIndustries.pdf

PEACEKEEPING OPERATES WITHIN A CONTEXT of neo-liberal power and capital.3 This context draws on and reflects older traditions of colonialism and patriarchy that valorize unequal treatments of race, gender, class, and culture. Although peacekeeping by multilateral agencies like the United Nations (UN) may provide a crucial service by ceasing violence (at least temporarily) in conflict-ridden societies, these agencies also reinforce a neo-liberal world order that is, “on the whole … de-historicized, leaving in place an old colonial script in which the West saves hapless refugees from their fates.”4

Peacekeepers as individuals may face an identity crisis of masculine warrior versus feminized peacekeeper,5 but peacekeeping as an enterprise intensifies a particular strain of neoliberal global governance that remains unquestioningly white, male, and bourgeois.

trafficking now increasingly involves UN peacekeepers.10 The Associated Press in Eastern Europe has reported that “[UN] officers [have secretly] forged documents for trafficked women, aided their illegal transport through border checkpoints into Bosnia, and tipped off sex club owners ahead of raids.”11 Apparently, Serbs and Albanians in the region can overcome political-ethnic differences to collaborate in sex trafficking, reportedly grossing US$1.5 million/week.12 Similar scenarios recur throughout the UN peacekeeping network, raising concern within the international organization itself not only for its internal management (sex trafficking directly violates the Security Council’s mandates for UN peacekeeping) but also for external public relations.13 Kathryn Bolkovac, for example, was an American working for the Virginia based DynCorp, a private security company contracted to the International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia. She was fired after reporting to her company and the U.S. State Department that other officers had participated in a prostitution racket. In 2002, she won a case of unfair dismissal against the State Department.14 That same year, the UN held a conference in Turin, Italy on the problematic connection between prostitution, sex trafficking, and peacekeeping missions.15

That is an extremely good read.

Original point was to shift the securing the borders argument, from immigration to stopping slavery.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Also it might poll well with the women.

My original point was that Vietnam fixed Cambodia once we got out of the way.

The United States provided aid (food, etc.) to Pol Pot through Thailand. Millions of dollars worth, in fact. The United States government helped the Khmer Rouge retain power and have some blame in what you are referring to.


Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
Chapter 10: Supporting Pol Pot


ETA: Old thread, and MRK covered what I was referring to.