wikipedia continues: "In 1978, Porter admitted changing his favorable opinion of the the Khmer Rouge."
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/3/13 1:44 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > > http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18559-how-intelligence-was-twisted-to-support-an-attack-on-syria > > > > How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria > > Tuesday, 03 September 2013 09:05 > > By Gareth Porter, Truthout | News > > In 1976, Gareth Porter wrote a book with George Hildebrand rejecting > accounts of starvation and mass killings by the Khmer Rouge regime in > Cambodia. This book, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, was widely > criticized for deriving its content mostly from Khmer Rouge > sources.[14][15] Testifying before Congress in May 1977, Porter said > that "the notion that the leadership of Democratic Kampuchea adopted a > policy of physically eliminating whole classes of people" was "a myth > fostered primarily by the authors of a Readers Digest book." He said > that eyewitness accounts of Khmer Rouge atrocities by refugees were > hearsay and second-hand information.[16] > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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