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Under the auspices of a U.N.-brokered settlement, the Prince has returned to lead a transitional Supreme National Council composed of Cambodia's four warring factions. It includes, by necessity, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, whose Maoist-inspired ideology had devastated the country from 1975 to 1979 and resulted in more than 1 million deaths. Sihanouk on his return called for an international trial of Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of genocide -- which poses a stern test for even his powers of adaptability, since those same leaders will sit on the council he is to head...
...rotten husband!" Her father only nodded, saying he knew.) He is swept away by the Cultural Revolution. But not before one supreme act of courage. Asked to praise so-called good officials by writing an adulatory wall poster, Chang's father refused -- even with the threat of beatings from Maoist thugs. His wife pleaded, "What is a poster compared to a life?" He answered, "I will not sell my soul...
...into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...
...WHAT USEFUL PURPOSE does AWARE Week serve? None that I know of. It gives guilt-stricken white liberals a chance to attend rap sessions at which they can engage in a sort of Maoist ritual self-criticism and confess to committing sins they can't even specify, much less remember...
Fifteen years ago, this peasant-based, uneducated Maoist group committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in recent (and long-term) history. Led by the radical Pol Pot, they overran the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 and proceeded to slaughter one in seven of their fellow citizens. Most city dwellers were herded into concentration camp-like "reeducation" communes in the countryside, better known as the killing fields...