Volume 23, Number 3 · March 4, 1976
Cambodia Under Its New Rulers
By William Shawcross
Now, perhaps more than ever, the lives of Cambodians are seen from a great distance or through the prism of propaganda: as a starving people policed by crazed and vengeful warders, or as a liberated peasantry happily rediscovering the land from which war had torn it. Henry Kissinger has announced that 'atrocities' have been visited upon the Khmer people since April 17, 1975: one of his counter-parts in Peking (like enough to him to insist that he too be known only as 'a senior official') promises that 'the internal situation is quite good; they are rehabilitating the enemy and everyone is properly fed.'
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