Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Amin ya ci gaba da yaba wa Khmer Rouge a cikin shekarun 1980. A wani jawabi a Tokyo a shekarar 1981, Amin ya yaba da aikin Pol Pot a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin manyan nasarorin gwagwarmayar neman gurguzu a zamaninmu" kuma a matsayin abin da ya wajaba a kan "faɗaɗawa" daga Tarayyar Soviet ko daga Vietnam
Ka yi haƙuri. Wasu malamai, kamar masanin ilimin ɗan adam na Marxist Kathleen Gough, sun lura cewa masu fafutukar Khmer Rouge a Paris a cikin shekarun 1950 sun riga sun sami ra'ayoyin kawar da masu adawa da juyin juya hali da kuma shirya cibiyar jam'iyyar wanda ba za a iya tambayar yanke shawara ba. Duk da rahotannin zamani na kisan gilla da Khmer Rouge suka aikata, Amin ya yi jayayya a 1986 cewa "dalilin mafi munin ga mutanen Kampuchea" ya ta'allaka ne a wani wuri: Hujjar jin kai a ƙarshe ita ce hujjar da duk masu mulkin mallaka suka bayar... Shin [dalilin mugunta] ba shine na farko ba na Amurkawa masu mulkin mallaka da Lon Nol? Shin yau ba sojojin Vietnam da shirin su na mulkin mallaka na Kampuchea ba ne?