Murder of a Gentle Land

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The Untold Stoiy of Communist Genocide in Cambodia
JOHN BARRON and ANTHONY PAUL
What has transpired in Cambodia constitutes one of the great, terrifying stories of our time. Since the Communists took over the country in April 1975, a mindless terror has emptied the cities and turned the villages, fields and jungles into chamel houses. The numbers of dead are staggering—these are not executions, they constitute genocide. Yet no protest is made; indeed the world knows almost nothing of what has happened. But there are, in fact, many people who carry the bitter truth forever in their hearts—the more than twenty-six thousand Cambodians who have managed to escape. They have seen a new holocaust; this is their story, told as they witnessed it, the deaths of their own beloved family members, and the murder of a lovely land.
Now this heretofore untold story has been (continued on back flap)
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Mwderlf AGeMie laid
The Untold Stoiy of Communist Genocide in Cambodia
JOHN BARRON and ANTHONY PAUL
What has transpired in Cambodia constitutes one of the great, terrifying stories of our time. Since the Communists took over the country in April 1975, a mindless terror has emptied the cities and turned the villages, fields and jungles into chamel houses. The numbers of dead are staggering—these are not executions, they constitute genocide. Yet no protest is made; indeed the world knows almost nothing of what has happened. But there are, in fact, many people who carry the bitter truth forever in their hearts—the more than twenty-six thousand Cambodians who have managed to escape. They have seen a new holocaust; this is their story, told as they witnessed it, the deaths of their own beloved family members, and the murder of a lovely land.
Now this heretofore untold story has been (continued on back flap)
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(continued from front flap)
brilliantly documented and narrated by two Reader s Digest editors—John Barron, author of KGB, and Anthony Paul, the magazine's Far Eastern specialist. They and a research team interviewed nearly three hundred eye-witnesses to the events in Cambodia, refugees who represented a cross section of Cambodian society. To document and provide for independent verification of their findings, the authors taped and had translated transcripts made of more than one hundred fifty of their interviews. Digest researchers also studied transcripts of Radio Phnom Penh broadcasts and public statement by Cambodian leaders, interviewed foreigners who were in Cambodia when the country fell to the Communists, and assembled woridwide press reportage concerning Cambodia. The sources of all statements in the book are identified in extensive chapter notes. Vissza