The Times Fails to Call Genocidal Khmer Rouge Regime "Communist"

Reporter Seth Mydans reverts to old bad habits in his followup story on a trial in Cambodia of a Khmer Rouge torturer.

Clay Waters

June 23, 2009 - 1:28pm

During its April coverage of the trial in Phnom Penh of a Khmer Rouge prison torturer known as Duch, Times Watch criticized the Times [1]for a story that completely ignored the Communist nature of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, which imposed radical agrarian Communism on the populace and deported city-dwellers to the countryside, where forced labor and killings led to the deaths of up to 1.5 million Cambodians. (The Khmer Rouge was also known as the Khmer Communist Party.)

A follow-up article [2]by the reporter, Seth Mydans, mentioned the word "Communist" in the first paragraph.

But on SundayMydans reverted to old habits, failing to identify the Khmer Rouge as Communist a single time in a long profile of Duch, "Legal Strategy [3]Fails to Hide Pride a Khmer Torturer Took in His Job [3]."

Publication: Articles [4]

Division: TimesWatch [5]

Tags: TimesWatch.org [6], TimesWatch [7], NYTimes [8], NewYorkTimes [9], KhmerRouge [10], Communism [11], SethMydans [12], Genocide [13], Cambodia [14], Duck [15]

Links:
[1] http://timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090401144111.aspx%20
[2] http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090409135551.aspx
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world/asia/21khmer.html
[4] http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/10
[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/timeswatch
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatchorg
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatch
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/nytimes
[9] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newyorktimes
[10] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/khmerrouge
[11] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/communism
[12] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/sethmydans
[13] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/genocide
[14] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/cambodia
[15] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/duck
[16] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org