19 May 1978

@ferretfyre Yes exactly. And they have read the refugee accounts & news reports hinting at the horrors… they dismissed them, went to🇰🇭 & still didn’t ask themselves, might these reports be true?; is what I am shown propaganda? At least the kids with AK-47s should have made them pause.

Scottish academic Malcom Caldwell (who will be murdered in December a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia) dismisses accounts of Khmer Rouge atrocities from refugees in @Guardian
“A refugee may give an honest account without it necessarily being accurate”