Volume 25, Number 5 · April 6, 1978
The Third Indochina War
By William Shawcross
Communist Party Power in Kampuchea (Cambodia): Documents and Discussion Studies, Cornell University
compiled and edited with an introduction by Timothy Michael Carney
Data Paper number 106, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian, 76 pp., $4.50 (paper)
Murder of a Gentle Land: The Untold Story of Communist Genocide in Cambodia
by John Barron, by Anthony Paul
Reader's Digest Press, 240 pp., $9.95
Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution
by George C. Hildebrand, by Gareth Porter
Monthly Review Press, 124 pp., $3.25 (paper)
Two years ago I suggested that it was possible to see Cambodia only through the prism of propaganda.[1] Since then the volume of the propaganda has swelled. But so has the body of evidence on which it is based. Consider the following letter published in the Vietnamese paper Nhan Dan and broadcast on Hanoi radio. It describes a midnight Khmer Rouge attack on a Vietnamese village last October, soon after the war between the two former allies began.
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