Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge

[flowperson]

Namaste Vajradhara !

I do not believe that, as time and events move forward here, human denial of a "many worlds" belief scenario will hold true. Especially now that the digital conversion of the human saga is well under way. But, as is said, only time will tell.
OH, I also wish to suggest that you visit the "ashes and snow" website, This group of artistic creations speaks volumes about this matter, IMHO.

warmest wishes

flow....

[Vajradhara]

Namaste juan,

thank you for the post.

Originally Posted by juantoo3

I thought Hinkley was the failed attempt against Reagan, Lee Harvey Oswald was the "suspected" assassin of Kennedy.

doh! *smacks forehead*

Either way, we are speaking of US presidents who are not in the habit of holing up in fortress compounds for months on end. In both instances, these presidents were in public places. An assassin would have a much easier time of hitting the target in a public place.

without question.

Oh surely you are familiar with various court intrigues, both in Europe and in the Orient? Royals were seemingly constantly being snuffed by rivals bent on usurping the various thrones. Poison, as I recall, is the preferred method.

indeed. however, that does not require any degree of trust by the victim, per se, to have their food poisoned, for instance. it simply takes a being with the appropriate skill set and motivation.

Again, open automobile in a public place. Someone like Pol Pot was not as amenable to public parade, no doubt for this very reason. The situation isn't much different today in Burma. The rulers lead from within fortified compounds. So the problem remains; find a way to coax them out (public parade, like Anwar Sadat), or get inside (Trojan horse).

this would appear to be correct. they do come out, however, though often not for offiical events and so forth.

there are time tested methods for motivating a being to leave their fortress, however. none of which are all that pleasant.. then again, we are talking about something which isn't pleasant.

Agreed. The problem remains, getting the sniper within target range. Inside a fortified compound this is very risky and extremely unreliable without an inside connection. This is probably why Arafat stayed alive as long as he did.

HALO

The concept of mitigating "unneccesary" deaths is a noble one, to be sure. A failed assassination attempt can just as easily spark a war. Indeed, a successful assassination attempt sparked WWI.

without question.

But at what point does one consign to assassination? When Pol Pot is suspected? When he is responsible for 10 deaths? When he is responsible for 100 deaths? When he is responsible for 1000 deaths, or ten-thousand, or a hundred thousand? In hindsight, we see the millions of deaths, but at the time there was no way to foreknow (short of prescient vision, which I do not possess).

during the historical happening, it would be difficult to know, but information was out there from beings that had managed to escape. have you seen the movie The Killing Fields? it is a very powerful and moving story of a Cambodian that went through the horror of the Khmer Rouge and their forced agrarian society.

in any event, we are speaking as if we had the ability to go back in time whilst retaining the knowledge that we have today regarding the scope of the atrocity.

metta,

~v