The Washington Post, June 24th, 1997
COMING FROM A small country, Pol Pot did not have the scope for savagery that made Stalin, Hitler and his role model Mao Zedong the 20th century's leading murderers. Each has tens of millions of victims. Still, though he lacked their industrial and military resources, the Cambodian Communist or Khmer Rouge leader did away with a million or so of his citizens. He did this, moreover, in an appalling, up-close, often hands-on, bludgeoning style discrediting for all time the notion that certain countries are reservoirs of a distinctive cultural repose. This happened as Vietnam's Communists consoli...
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