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The Forever War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Extract

Before discussing Vietnam, I would like to begin in a more general mode by citing a recent instance of remembering and retelling which, as is always the case, also involves as much forgetting and silencing. Last year, the history of the Khmer Rouge occupied television news and newspapers on the occasion of the unmourned death of Pol Pot. With only one exception that I have seen – the British journalist John Pilger's report for the Nation magazine, every press account of Pol Pot's death referred to the support the Khmer Rouge received from Thailand and China.

Type
The American Experience in Asia
Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1998

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Notes

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2 Reissued by Avon Books in 1996.

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