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How the West Missed the Horrors of Cambodia

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Never was there a finer example of ideologues seeing what they wanted to see than the era of Cambodian genocide. Only Orwell, prescient as ever, got it right.

Donald Beachler
Donald Beachler
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Donald Beachler

Donald Beachler

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