A little journalistic, historical note on this. I was the only journalist to testify before Congress (House International Affairs Committee, July 1974 and H. Armed Services Forces, April 1975 about the coming genocide in Cambodia). I presented a formerly Secret U.S. intelligence document detailing Khmer Rouge occupation tactics during the early 1970’s in parts of Cambodia that they had seized with North Vietnamese help.
Of course this testimony was totally ignored by the press, but you can find references to it in Prof. Louis Fanning’s book “Betrayal in Vietnam”, about the role Congress played in betraying our allies in Indochina.
This is one of only two known books on the role of Congress in determining the course of the war and the fate of our allies.
Some of us tried, at risks to our lives, to tell the story of what went on there. A lot of good men but their efforts were ignored.
I lived in Cambodia between 1994 and 1997. Started an English school in Phnom Penh. I met a lot of the people involved with modern Cambodian history to include some journalists.
I used to hang out at the FCC across from the river and watch the goings on. I would have to do some research on the names, but many foreign correspondents in Cambodia at the time were “a little weird” to put it nicely.
How much do you know about the little war in July 1997 between Hun Sin’s troops and those of Funcipec? Been a while since I thought about these my experiences during that time. I do know that a lot of left-leaning people inside and outside the US government refused to believe what was going on during the Khmer Rouge rule. I think even Kenneth Quinn blew it when he was an analyst in Vietnam. What is your take on that?
My Wife is from Cambodia, lived on a self-sufficient farm and survived all that crap.
Saw her Dad shot to death, watched her Mom starve to death in a camp where they were worked to death, literally.
MANY more bad things; she says the movie “The Killing Fields” was only 10% of how bad it was...