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"I was at that time a member of a friendship association which was a remnant of the anti-Vietnam/Cambodia War movement in Sweden, which was very strong in the Western world," Mr Bergstrom told the BBC. "Of course we didn't want to believe that the liberators had become oppressors." link story originally picked up via John Vink.
knutas
| November 24, 2008 9:23 AM
I wonder why the link "Gunnar Bergstrom " go to John Vink?
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As far as i see it Mr Bergström isnt really guilty of much? i think hes a man with strong believes and at that time was search to make to make the world a better place.
LIKE MANY AT THAT TIME he believed that communism was alot better than the democracy that exsisted, im sure he believed it would lead to better things. pol pot was a manipulator and as history as shown a pychopath.....
Mr Bergström as a consence and realises he was wrong, it takes guts and someone who cares to do that. You have to put things in perpective, what did he really do wrong.....???? write a book and then write amendments to say that they were wrong about the trip.
What concerns me the most is the other swedes that went on that trip and refused when asked to go back to appollogise and make amends. Unbelievably one of the swedes still thinks Pol Pot the mass murderer was a good ruler? i think he should be made to live in cambodia untill he understands what he is saying.