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[[John Pilger]] has written that as part of "its new alliance with China", the US "not only helped create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support—$85 million from 1980 to 1986—was revealed six years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation." Pilger notes that, in 1981, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], said, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot."<ref>{{cite journal |last= Pilger |first= John |authorlink= John Pilger |year= 1997 |title= The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot |url= http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf |journal= [[CovertAction Quarterly]] |issue= 62 |pages= 5–9 |accessdate= 15 September 2012 }}</ref> The United States also opposed the setting up of a tribunal to prosecute Khmer Rouge leaders and officials.<ref>{{citation |separator= . |last= Kiernan |first= Ben |authorlink= Ben Kiernan |month= April |year= 2005 |chapter= The Cambodian Genocide and Imperial Culture |chapterurl= http://www.yale.edu/cgp/KiernanCambodia30thAnniversaryEssay.doc |title= 90 Years of Denial |publisher= ''[[Aztag (daily)|Aztag Daily]]'' (Beirut) & ''[[Armenian Weekly]]'' (Boston) |pages= 20–21 |accessdate= 15 September 2012 }}</ref>

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John Pilger has written that as part of "its new alliance with China", the US "not only helped create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support—$85 million from 1980 to 1986—was revealed six years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation." Pilger notes that, in 1981, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot." The United States also opposed the setting up of a tribunal to prosecute Khmer Rouge leaders and officials.