/lit/ - Literature

Chomsky, 1977, "Distortions at Fourth Hand"

"Space limitations preclude a comprehensive review, but such journals as the Far Eastern Economic Review, the London Economist, the Melbourne Journal of Politics, and others elsewhere, have provided analyses by highly qualified specialists who have studied the full range of evidence available, and who concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands; that these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent, where brutal revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of starvation resulting from the American destruction and killing."

Manufacturing Content also argues that the Khmer Rouge prolly 'only' killed 200,000 people, and that the vast amount of the deaths were actually the fault of the US earlier in the decade.