Sebastian Strangio
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In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
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Hun Sen’s Cambodia
7 editions
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2014
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Our Unstable Neighbourhood: The Contest for South-East Asia
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2 editions
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2022
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“Less radical figures on the left had similar doubts. In June 1977 Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman penned an article for The Nation in which they questioned the accounts of Ponchaud and others, implying that reports of Cambodian atrocities were part of “a campaign to reconstruct the history of these years so as to place the role of the United States in a more favorable light.â€�35 Thirty years later, Bergström returned to Phnom Penh for a second time and admitted that he, like many of his fellow leftists, was wrong. After visiting S-21, now a museum to the horrors of DK’s rule, he apologized to Cambodians, explaining that his youthful fanaticism had blinded him to the grim reality of Democratic Kampuchea. As he later told me, “we could not imagine that the people we supported could become oppressors.”
― Hun Sen's Cambodia
― Hun Sen's Cambodia
“Leading communists like Khieu Samphan had served as ministers in his government during the 1960s, and he thought he knew them well. In early 1973 the prince and his wife Monique toured the CPK’s “liberated zone,â€� posing with pasted-on smiles in the black pajamas worn by the communist troops. He later wrote to several Democrats in the US, reassuring them (and maybe also himself) that the Khmer Rouge would not set up a communist system after coming to power, “but a Swedish type of kingdom.â€�15 In private he was more pessimistic, predicting that the Khmer Rouge would spit him out “like a cherry pitâ€� once they gained power.16”
― Hun Sen's Cambodia
― Hun Sen's Cambodia
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