Volume 24, Number 5 · March 31, 1977
The Bloodiest Revolution
By Jean Lacouture
Cambodge, année zéro
by François Ponchaud
Julliard, 250 pp., 42F
François Ponchaud is a French priest who spent ten years in Cambodia and left three weeks after the so-called 'democratic' revolution took place in April, 1975. He spoke Khmer so well that he was made a member of a local committee of translators. Since being expelled with the rest of the foreigners he has made intensive efforts to find out what has happened in Cambodia, listening to the official radio, examining every available public document, compiling evidence from some hundred refugees in Thailand, Vietnam, and France.
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