

Newspaper coverage focused on the French embassy affair. Notes that in France, under which Cambodia had been a colony until 1953, The world this had never happened, until Phnom Penh.

How often doĬapital cities of 2-3 million people get evacuated? In the history of On Cambodia of an unprecedented propaganda campaign. Upon closer examination, if anything were "magnified, distorted,Īnd hammered," it would be that very dubious assertion by the STAV Into popular consciousness through endless repetition. role and responsibility have been quickly forgotten or evenĮxplicitly denied as the mills of the propaganda machine grind away.įrom the spectrum of informed opinion only the most extremeĬondemnations have been selected, magnified, distorted, and hammered Furthermore, they assert that this campaign began The Western media undertook an unprecedented propaganda campaign against With the Khmer Rouge or simply the "Khmer peoples" claim that Throughout this thesis, the canonized authors who found solidarity Yes I loved you dearly, and if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid. `Cause I need some of that vagueness now it's all come back too clearly. You were so good with words, and at keeping things vague. Noam Chomsky, 1970 Now you're telling me you're not nostalgic, then give me another word for it. They will join the countless millions of earlier victims of tyrants Peasants of Indochina, will write no memoirs and will be forgotten. World leadership and the tragic irony of history. "honest errors" in their memoirs, speaking of the burdens of If you are reading the whole of this thesis it would be best to printĥ CHAPTER 4: BEYOND THE STAV Perhaps someday they will acknowledge their [The footnotes were incorrectly coded and I have not had time to correct themĪll.

Accessed 01 August 2001 The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia
