From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 16:42:27 MST
John K Clark wrote:
> In 1979, 3 years AFTER the killing in Cambodia Chomsky wrote in his book
> "After the Cataclysm":
>
> "If a serious study.is someday undertaken, it may well be discovered.that
> the Khmer Rouge programs elicited a positive response because they dealt
> with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and exacerbated by the
> imperial system.. Such a study, however, has yet to be undertaken."
Huh? Looks like that paragraph is an attempt to explain why the
Khmer Rouge became popular enough to come to power NOT an
attempt to condone what they did with that power.
- samantha
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