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RE: Today I learned about a hero of the Cambodian Genocide.

in #steemiteducation7 years ago

This seems to be a cycle

These kind of genocides have occurred not one or two but thousands of times along the history, specially caused by communist governments.

This history keeps repeating, and for some reason, people keep falling in the same trap. For example, I'm from Venezuela and even though there are people starving here, an like you said the government trying to force people to turn into the "agrarian society", people from other countries still keep voting for communist leaders!

To put things into context, before we had a dictatorship, Cuban people told us not to vote for a communist leader, and most people voted for a communist leader. Then we tried to warn people from Nicaragua, and now they are being killed in protests, because they didn't pay attention to our warning. And despite all of this, people from Mexico want to vote for a communist leader too. I just don't understand what is happening and why it continue happening despite the problems it can cause.

Now, on the other hand.

I second what you say. Heroes have been there in every genocide along the history, for example Irena Sendler in the holocaust, who saved a lot of children's lives, Oscar Pérez, a man who died defending Venezuela this year, or those anonymous people who help families escape from Syria or African dictatorships.


I don't know many of them, but I'm sure they deserve to be named. They deserve admiration and respect. They could have decided to save their own lives, but they decided to save others instead.

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Sadly, I had not heard of Oscar Pérez, I am going to be researching him today. I hope more heroes step up. Thank you!

@ralk98

Ya veo que es dificil para un Venezolano no sentirse impactado por esta clase de escritos, donde vemos como de cierta manera estamos viviendo cosas similares. A mi me pasó igual que a ti después de leer el post.

Creo que acá habemos muchos héroes, nos hemos tenido que obligar a tener valor y hacer sacrificios para no perecer. Los que se van, los que se quedan, todos somos héroes.