Actually ... you got it all wrong:Hullu Hevonen wrote:Actually China supported more Cambodja while Russia(USSR) Vietnam, this mounted to 2 wars at the end of the 70's. In Rwanda, I haven't heard of any great power(except for France) supporting any faction, though it's possible everyone was involved there and Bosnia is disputed, since there where the NATO bombing campaigns.
Initially Vietnam was supported by both China and the Sovietunion, whereas the regime in Cambodia (Lon Nol and his puppet King Sihanouk) was supported by USA among others. It was only when Lon Nol was ousted by the mad dogs of Khmer Rouge, that support from China started flowing into Cambodia.
This was an obvious powerplay as Vietnam had meanwhile been fed up with the Chinese and their machinations and turned to the Sovietunion who supported Vietnam throughout the latter part of the Vietnam war.
After the North had won over the south, then Vietnam finally and slowly began their healing process.
However China STILL tried to influence and coerce Vietnam without any succes. So when the simpletons and mass-murdering psychos of Khmer Rouge started waging a war of ethnic cleansing in Cambodia as well as carried out cross-border raids against vietnam and vietnamese, Vietnam understandably got somewhat upset. Incidently then the Lon Nol regime committed atrocities against vietnamese as well, so it was old hatred ...
This off course was on top of the national genocide that Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia...
When Khmer rouge proved to be beyond rational reach, then Vietnam finally felt forced to invade Cambodia in 1979 following the unsuccessfull Cambodian invasion in 1978, after which the cowards of Khmer rouge rouge ran like rabbits ... all the way to China who promptly demanded that the Vietnamese left the murderers alone ...
The Vietnamese basicly told the chinese to stick their eggrolls where the sun dont shine, after which the chinese invaded Vietnam....
The selfdestructive drive of communists are seemingly without borders or ends...
SO ... your point was that Syria is NOT another killling field
This is obviously a false statement:
In Syria the Dictator is supported directly by Iran, who in turn is supported directly by China and for the same reasons: they are terrified that the seeds of democracy will germinate and thus force the syrian hereditary dictatorship from power. In effect they are driven by the same fear of a domino-effect that drove a great many nations into the South-east asian wars.
In other words then Ahmadinejad and the rest of the unenlightened, misogynistic, anti-democratic, anti-religious (except their own) and anti-libertarian leadership of Iran are shaking in their ... pants ? ... of the risk of themselves being ousted and brought to trial for their crimes.
The chinese leadership are fearful of the same (dont mention Tibet and Tianmen Square), but also wants a steady stream of oil as well as basing rights in the gulf. Also Iran are very good customers in the fields of weapons (conventional, chemical and nuclear)
For the last reasons as well as their brand new military base and port in Syria, the Russians support the Syrians ad nauseam.
So OBVIOUSLY and CLEARLY a new killing field. How you could come to another conclusion is beyond me.
Regarding Rwanda then its more a matter of nobody giving a damn about the Rwandans. The sad fact is that most of the world are not moved by another disaster in Africa. They simply switch to another channel ...
As I say: its sad, but thats just the way it is.
So in that respect one can argue that its another killing field, if its the INaction of the surrounding world to end it (Except Vietnam who has balls of steel and has won against anyone who tried to dictate them what to do - including almost all the great Powers).
Regarding Bosnia then its just silly to claim that its disputed:
Moslems killed serbs, Serbs killed a lot more moslems, and China and Russia openly supported Serbia. When the chinese helped the serbs taking down a F-117, in exchange for all the parts, then the americans "accidently" wiped out the chinese embassy with a big air deployed smart bomb.
However it tooks years of ethnic cleansing before the EU and NATO did anything.
Up to that point the UN not only was inept, stupid and openly irrational but also De Facto helped the serbians with their failed "peacekeeping" policies worst of which probably was The Srebrenica "safe area"...
SO for a number of reasons another killing field.
So ... I agree with your statement regading Rwanda, but the rest is just sillyness ... !