Cambodian genocide denial: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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In 1978, French scholar [[Jean Lacouture]], formerly a fervent sympathizer of the Khmer Rouge, said: "Cambodia and Cambodians are on their way to ethnic extinction.… If Noam Chomsky and his friends doubt it, they should study the papers, the cultures, the facts."<ref name=":3" />

Journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]] defended Chomsky and Herman in 1985. They "were engaged in the admittedly touchy business of distinguishing evidence from interpretations."<ref name=":9" />{{Rp|116}} Chomsky and Herman have continued to argue that their analysis of the situation in Cambodia was reasonable, based on the information available to them at the time, and a legitimate critique of the disparities in reporting atrocities committed by Communist regimes relative to the atrocities committed by the U.S. and its allies. However, Bruce Sharp asserts that Chomsky continued into the 1990s to try to "demonstrate some sort of moral equivalence between the Khmer Rouge and the Americans"<ref>{{harvnb|Sharp|2023|loc=ch. V}}</ref>, on the grounds that the undeclared US bombing campaign had killed several hundred thousand Cambodian civilians, and to postulate significantly lower numbers of Khmer Rouge victims.<ref>{{harvnb|Sharp|2023|loc=ch. IV}}: "Lest we assume that he [Chomsky] simply misspoke, it is worth noting that he made the same claim in a 1999 discussion on Cambodia: 'in short, a factor of 1000 matters in estimating deaths, and we should try to keep to the truth, whether considering our own crimes or those of official enemies.' Since Lacouture had cited a figure of two million deaths, it would appear that Chomsky is implying that the real toll at that point was on the order of two thousand."</ref>

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