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>> [Up to two million people are thought to have died under Pol Pot]
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> http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm
This typical BBC (typical for most media) leaves out the deaths caused by the US bombardment leading to the rise of KR. US intelligence at the time (according to Michael Vickery) stated KR were responsible for no more than ~750K, most of which came from starvation, harsh conditions, overwork . They attribute 35K to executions. The majority of deaths wrapped into this number, ~1.2M, occurred during the US bombardment from 1970 to 1975, which was directed at the farming capacity Cambodia.
No doubt was PP was a monster, but the distortions are worse. Then Douglas Pike refers to PP as the "charasmatic leader of peasant revolution" in 1978 at Vietnam invaded to stop PP's madness.
And the BBC is the morning news staple at KPFT in Houston, a Pacifica station, right in drive time.
Hep