Critics have argued that the ultimate result of Nixon's strategy was to destabilize the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and enable the Khmer Rouge's ascent to power in 1975, and the subsequent genocide.
For many, the word Holocaust conjures up images of the Nazi camps in which over 200,000 Jews were systematically murdered in one of the largest genocides in history, but Holocaust Memorial Day was also created to commemorate the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The role of the bystander is the focus of Wednesday's Holocaust Memorial Day, which adopts the theme "Don't stand by" for the annual commemoration of the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution, and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The betrayal of and subsequent genocide in Srebrenica in that summer of 1995 under the watch of the UN and presumed protection of NATO appeared as a wake-up call, much like the Holocaust and murderous war of a half-century earlier.
Along with the appalling treatment of the convicts themselves, the invasion and subsequent genocide of Tasmania's Aboriginal population by British colonists is never far from the surface.
It is, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust explains, a "day for everyone to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions of people killed Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur".
During the subsequent Cambodian genocide, Kahin backed Porter's attempts to discredit reports of the mass killings (see Cambodian genocide denial).
"The verdict demonstrates that perseverance can pay off and that justice is a common human value, and gives hope that the worst crime — genocide — will also be duly tried in the subsequent cases".
Similarly, faced with passages in which God orders genocide (e.g. Deut 20 16-18) the rabbis proclaimed that such passages cannot be used as a precedent or justification for any subsequent genocide.
"The war in Guatemala was really a genocide," Oglesby said, adding that an estimated 200,000 were killed in the subsequent 36-year-long civil war, which stretched from 1960 to 1996.
