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Post by Legion Etrangere on Dec 28, 2009 13:13:53 GMT -5
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Post by marsouin on Dec 29, 2009 8:27:08 GMT -5
Yeah upon alleged amnesty from the laotian autorities....Ending up with reeducation about the benefits of socialism...
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Dec 29, 2009 13:16:53 GMT -5
A friend sent me an email. He said once they cross the border, the staccatto sound of MGs will be heard in the distance as the "educated" among the refugees will be executed. Once more, the U.N., the U.S. and other countries remain silent ...
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Post by soldatsoucy1 on Dec 29, 2009 14:29:00 GMT -5
so much for UN human rights.........you would think that the collective "we" would have learned something from Cambodia and Pol Pot.
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Dec 29, 2009 17:31:15 GMT -5
Interesting you mention that.
When Gen. Dallaire needed more troops and supplies to stop genocide from taking place in Rwanda, he was turned down not only by the U.N., but by the U.S. and Britain. I think Clinton was vacationing in Hawaii... The U.N. sent him a one page telex which read you are to take no action, stay out of it. Nearly a million were killed I believe.
PBS did a great documentary called "The Ghosts of Rwanda".
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Dec 31, 2009 10:11:20 GMT -5
I spoke to a contact of mine in the Vietnamese / tribal community last night. There is some consternation about whats happening.....I'll provide a SITREP later....
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Post by cookie on Dec 31, 2009 12:11:50 GMT -5
Yet another nail in the coffin of the UN and international cooperation... Look what happened in Sierra Leone a few years back. The UN, bless them, sent some Indian and Nigerian 'peacekeepers' to deal with the RUF rebels and to try to re introduce stability to the country. After a few months of sitting around in their barracks doing diddly squat. The RUF had advanced three quarters of the way across the country, slaughtered thousands of innocent people, and had taken control of the country's sole export of any worth: Diamonds. No one could stop the 'blood diamond' trade (or no one wanted to). The RUF were busily entering every town and village they could find and were raping the women and then hacking the arms of everyone. I believe the options were 'short sleeves' or 'long sleeves'. They would then round up all the children, dose them up on drugs, give them guns and send them off to do more massacres. Eventually the UN forces were stirred into action, when their own barracks was threatened. 400 Nigerians were captured without firing a shot  , and the Indians were denied the use of their Hind D attack helicopters because they were too 'aggressive' and did not fit the UN's 'rules of engagement'. The RUF then marched on Free Town, which was the last place outside their control. Sometime later the British government, for reasons no one quite knows (it certainly wasn't humanitarian), sent a taskforce headed by the Para's. They weren't under the UN mandate so took their attack helicopters, artillery and other heavy weapons. Within a week they'd cut their way through the RUF like they weren't there. They absolutely wiped the floor with those scumbags and restored order to 95% of Sierra Leon, capturing the RUF's leader and ended the war. They lost, to my knowledge, no men killed. The figures on how many of the RUF were killed are not known but run into the hundreds. Sierra Leone is now one of the most stable countries in the whole region. Still poor as hell but you can't have everything... I have no faith in the UN or any other such international humantiarian coalitions. As much as I admire the USA and it's armed forces, we didn't go into Iraq to free the people from tyranny and terrorism. If we had, we'd have got rid of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe a long time ago. We'd also go give Kim Jong Il and that Mahmood Armenidinajad guy a good slapping too. The Hmongs are on their own. The only hope they have, like the Karen people in Burma, is to fight their own corner. Which will probably end like the Tamil Tigers - getting slaughtered while everyone else watches. Rant over. The British government recently condemned China for executing a guy caught smuggling 4 kilograms of cocaine. We stand silent as thousands get shot dead in Laos... That shows you how warped our priorities are. |
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Feb 19, 2012 17:03:45 GMT -5
This was the reason (among many) that COL Robert Jambon committed suicide last year at the Indochina Memorial in Dinan - the forced deportation of the H'mong and other tribal minorities (most of which were exterminated by the Viet Mihn after the close of Dien bien phu.
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, and the Indians were denied the use of their Hind D attack helicopters because they were too 'aggressive' and did not fit the UN's 'rules of engagement'. The RUF then marched on Free Town, which was the last place outside their control.