http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/6689/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ignoring-communist-ideology-murderous-khmer-rouge <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Two Seth Mydans stories from a Khmer Rouge trial in Phnom Penh ignore the communist ideology behind the liquidation of two million Cambodians by the fanatical movement, to the point of removing a reference to communism from a filing. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In just four years, the communist Khmer Rouge liquidated almost two million people in Cambodia, a nation of perhaps just over seven million, a mass murder rate that dwarfs anything seen in modern times. Yet there was no link of the Khmer Rouge with communism in two stories by Seth Mydans this week on the trial of a Khmer Rouge defendant known as Duch, in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. </p><br /> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ignoring-communist-ideology-murderous-khmer-rouge" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Communism DoubleStandards Duch KhmerRouge MonaCharen NewYorkTimes NYTimes SethMydans TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:50:00 +0000 admin 6750 at http://archive2.mrc.org