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Originally Posted by 79T/A
I think April 15, 1998 was the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh. I remember standing on the lawn outside of my classroom at MCC the day after because some insensitive moron thought it a grand idea to call in a bomb threat the day after the tragedy.
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close, but no cigar. that date was in 1995, and it was april 19 (again, i knew the year and month, but not the exact day).
this date, april 15, 1998, aside from being the normal day that americans must file their income tax returns to avoid penalties if they owe money to the government, was the day pol pot died. as the leader of the khmer rouge, he led a revolutionary force in cambodia, and reigned between 1975 and 1979. some say he used bizarre tactics, others say he was a torturer and murderer, and caused the death of over a million people either by murder, starvation or overwork (under his rule, all people were ejected from their normal jobs and put to work in the fields; he abolished all forms of wealth and ownership). the US got involved because the khmer rouge's ideals were communist based, and we all know how the US feared global communism. for many survivors of that era, the joy of his demise will only be tempered with the regret that he was not called to account for his crimes against humanity. although a power struggle inside the khmer rouge put him under house arrest for life in 1997, he was not brought to trial for his "war crimes".